Person Anderson; Ephraim Saul (1911 - 2006) Anderson Ephraim Saul Anderson Andy 1911 - 2006 British Male 28/10/1911 19111028 14/03/2006 20060314

Bacteriologist Gastro-intestinal infections Education: Rutherford College; scholarship to King's College medical school, Newcastle (then part of Durham University); studied bacteriology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London Career: Worked in general practice and as a hospital physician; Royal Army Medical Corps, based in Cairo (1939-1944); gifted in languages, spoke Arabic, using this when he headed his own field investigation in Iran to trace individuals identified as carriers, but who had made a run for home instead of accepting treatment; after the war, spent a year as registrar in bacteriology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London (1946-1947); Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine (studying typhoid phage types); joined the government research unit called the Enteric Reference Laboratory, Public Health Laboratory Service, London, (1947-1978), Deputy Director (1952-1954), Director (1954-1978); Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Drug Resistance in Enterobacteria, Colindale (1960-1978); working with Betty Hobbs, established that the 1964 typhoid fever epidemic in Aberdeen was almost certainly caused by Salmonella typhi sucked into an imperfectly sealed can of corned beef when it was dumped into contaminated water in Argentina to cool; Senior Advisor to the Swann Report (1969) which banned the use of antibiotics in animal feeding stuffs; delivered the Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture to the Society for General Microbiology (1975); Honorary DSc, Edinburgh University (1975). Honours: CBE 1976 Publications: 'The World Problem of Salmonellosis' (1964) Born of Estonian-Jewish immigrant parents Fellow 21/03/1968 56 Obituaries: 'The Guardian' (22 March 2006); 'The Independent' (23 March 2006); 'The Times' (27 March 2006) 'The Herald' (3 April 2006) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'The World Problem of Salmonellosis' (1964) 28 Oct 1911 - 14 Mar 2006 NA3897 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 4051626f-f6de-493f-bdb2-862c58d0bc4c