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DR. GILBART-SMITHTHE many friends of Dr. Gilbart-Smith will have heard, with feelings of the keenest regret, his death at the early age of 56, which occurred suddenly on Aug. 3, while on a bicycling tour with his son, in Devonshire. The deceased was a physician at the London Hospital, and for nearly 30 years he had been connected in a similar capacity with the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, City-road. He took the very greatest interest in this latter Charity particularly, and during his connexion with it endeared himself to his colleagues and the staff of the Hospital generally, while he was at all times a great favourite with his patients. The other hospital appointments of the deceased included that of consulting physician to the Mildmay Park Cottage Hospital and Cripples’ Nursery, and at one time he acted as physician to the Infirmary for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Margaret-street, W. In his early days he acted as a clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-Street.Sir Robert Anderson, writing to the Times in connexion with the sad event, says “ The brief obituary notice of the late Dr. Gilbart-Smith, which appeared in the Times, excellent though it is in what it contains, is wanting in an element which his innumerable friends would wish to have recognised. I do not allude to his genius as a physician—and he was one of those men who seemed to be guided by a sort of intuition in diagnosing disease—but rather to his ‘ genius for friendship.’ All who knew him in social life, and most of those who came to know him in his professional capacity, were drawn to him by the magnet spell of his charming personality. Lest this testimony should be discounted as coming from one of the oldest and most intimate of his private friends, I will quote without comment the words of another witness. The following is an extract from a letter written by Sir Frederick Treves, when the news of Dr. Gilbart-Smith’s sudden death reached him on His Majesty’s yacht at Cowes:—‘ You know what a sincere affection I had for Gilbart, and how much I admired him. We had been fast friends for so many years. One of my chief pleasures in connexion with the London Hospital was my association with him ; and every pleasant recollection in the past which hangs about the “ London” was associated with him. We all had the greatest admiration of his many splendid qualities, his absolute honesty, his loyalty, his unbounded kindness, and his genial and affectionate disposition. No pleasant enterprise at the hospital was complete without Gilbart, and wherever he went his cheeriness took possession of everybody. He was a man of a very rare and very fine type, and the least that many of us can claim is that we appreciated him and valued every feature of his noble character. He will be terribly missed and very sincerely mourned, not only by every one of his friends, but by the host of young students who were absolutely devoted to him, and over whose lives he exercised so good an influence.* ”
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Charity Record
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Aug 18, 1904
Page 14
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