Dr James S Mill

The death took place at a nursing home in Edinburgh

on May 13 of Dr. JAMES MILL, who for many years was

a well-known practitioner in Leith. He was born in Leith,

the son of the Rev. James S. Mill, minister of,Kirkgate

Church in that town. He studied medicine at Edinburgh,

graduating M.B., C.M. in 1881, and joined the Royal

Colege of Physicians of Edinburgh ten years later as a

Member, being elected a Fellow in 1893. Soon after

graduation he settled in Leith, where he acquired a large

practice and was greatly respected and beloved by his

patients during half a century of active work. He was

an ardent volunteer, and afterwards held the rank of

lieutenant-colonel in the R.A.M.C. Territorial Force.

Early in the war he accompanied the 7th Leith Battalion

of the Royal Scots to Gallipoli. This battalion, on leaving

with the Expeditionary Force, had a tragic experience

when one of the trains carrying the men met with a

railway disaster at Gretna, nearly half of the battalion

being killed or rendered unfit for service. Lieut.-Colonel

Mill fortunately was in the second train, and proceeding

to Gallipoli he rendered valuable service there. On his

return to this country he was placed in charge of Maryhill

Military Hospital, Glasgow, where he also did excellent

work. He retired from practice some time ago after

thirty-two years' membership of the British Medical Association.

The funeral service at the Edinburgh Crematorium

on May 15 was attended by many former patients

and members of the medical profession in Edinburgh.