2962152Thom's Irish Who's Who — Flinn, D. Edgar


FLINN, D. Edgar, V.D. (1904), F.R.C.S., D.P.H., M.R.C.P., Fellow Royal Sanitary Institute, London; b. 1850; son of David E. Flinn. Buenos Aires, Argentine. Col. R.A.M.C. (Terr.), and Army Med. Reserve (ret.); Medical Commissioner General Prisons Board, Ireland, 1910-17; Chief Inspector Reformatory and Industrial Schools, 1910-17 Medical Inspector Local Government Board, 1896-1910; Appointed Local Government Inspector for special Relief of Distress duty in West of Ireland, 1895: Member of Vice-Regal Commission to inquire into the Public Health of Belfast, 1907; Member Dublin Typhoid Inquiry Committee, 1893; President State Medicine Sect., Royal Academy of Medicine, Ireland, 1894 and 1895; Member of Council Royal College of Surgeons. Ireland, 1906-1919: Examiner in Public Health for ten years. Editor, Health Record, 1890-5. Formerly Medical Officer of Health, East Staffordshire. Educ.: Clongowes; Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland; University, Dublin. Pubns.: Irish Health Resorts and Watering Places; Public Health Acts in Ireland; Rural Water Supplies: Refuse Disposal and Public Cleansing; Our Dress and our Food, etc. Club: Royal St. George Yacht Club, Kingstown.