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MR. WALTER GEORGE SPENCER, the well-known surgeon and medical historian, died on October 31 after a short illness in Westminster Hospital at the age of eighty-three. He was educated at Weymouth College and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and qualified in 1885. Throughout his career he wasclosely connected with Westminster Hospital, of which he was vice-president, as well as lecturer and successively assistant surgeon, surgeon, and consulting surgeon.
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ROLLESTON, J. Mr. W. G. Spencer, O.B.E. Nature 146, 678 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146678b0
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