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PROF. CHARMS CYRIL OKELL, who died on February 9, was educated at Douglas Grammar School, St. John's College, Cambridge, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and distinguished himself as a student. He became medically qualified during the Great War and served in the R.A.M.C. as lieutenant and captain in France, Palestine and Egypt, and was awarded the Military Cross when a regimental medical officer. Soon after the War ho became bacteriologist to the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories at Beckenham, and left that institution to become professor of bacteriology at University College Hospital Medical School, London. He was for some time assistant editor of the Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology and at the time of his death was editor of the Journal of Hygiene.
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TREVAN, J. Prof. C. C. Okell. Nature 143, 508 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143508a0
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