Antique Practice of Medicine, Surgery & Midwifery Certificate

 

This measures 45cm width x 63cm height. 

 

The Obituary of can be seen below (this is who the certificates were awarded to): 

 

HAROLD CHARLES BECCLE, formerly Physician Superinten- dent, Springfield Hospital, London SW17. Harold Beccle, who died in Cornwall at the age of 83, had been the last Superintendent (the fifth only since the post was introduced in 1863) of Springfield Hospital before his retire- ment in 1968. He qualified at Guy's in 1923, where he had been Senior War Memorial Scholar, and worked there in the Casualty and Morbid Histology Departments before spending several years at the West End Hospital where he gained the MRCP. His interest in neurology, leading at that time to studies in various contemporary problems (such as encepha- litis lethargica and the malarial treatment of GPI), persisted through his career and he might well have become a physician. However, he entered psychiatry with an appointment at Beth- lem and subsequently became Medical Officer to what was then the observation ward in Paddington General Hospital. After several years there and at Maidstone, he joined Springfield in 1933. Conditions there were much as they had been for decades and it was not until after the war, when he returned from the RAF, that he became Superintendent and had the opportunity to initiate many overdue developments. Of these, the Rehabilitation Unit and Industrial Workshops are the most conspicuous, but many of the changes that brought Springfield into the present era are attributable to him. Although personally reserved, he was an intelligent and cultivated companion: an initially defensive exterior con- cealed a capacity for warmth, informality, friendship and great kindness.

 

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