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SIR J. W. BYERS, one of the leading physicians of the North of Ireland, who died on September 20, was born in China in 1853, but was educated and spent his life in Belfast. He commenced practice in the Children's Hospital at Belfast in 1879, and in 1882 he took over the department for diseases of women in the Royal Victoria Hospital in that city. In 1896 he was elected honorary president of the International Congress of Obstetrics and Gynæcology. He was president of the Section of Obstetric Medicine and Gynæcology of the British Medical Association in 1901, and from 1902 to 1906 was a member of the council of that body. In 1907, Sir John Byers was president of the Section of Physical Education and Training in Personal Hygiene of the International Congress on School Hygiene, and in 1916 he was knighted. During his lifetime he took a prominent part in all movements concerned with public health, particularly those dealing with tuberculosis and infant mortality. He was the author of many medical works, and of some papers and a book on the folklore of Ulster.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 119 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106119c0
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