GORDON BATESSource: Canadian Journal of Public Health / Revue Canadienne de Sante'e Publique, Vol. 67, No.1 (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1976), pp. 74-75Published by: Canadian Public Health AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41988132 .

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WILLIAM MAXWELL WALKINSHAW Mr. W. Max Walkinshaw held the

position of Co-ordinator, Environ- mental Assessment & Planning, On- tario Ministry of the Environment, at the time of his death of a second heart attack on January 14th, 1976. He had held this position since the re-organiza-

tion of that Ministry in April of 1974. Before that he had been the Director of the Private Waste and Water Manage- ment Branch.

Mr. Walkinshaw was born in Nova Scotia. He obtained his Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in 1939 and his Master of Applied Science Degree in Public Health Engineering in 1949, both at the University of Toronto, and was a Professional Engineer registered with the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.

Before joining the Ontario Govern- ment in 1957 with the then existing Environmental Sanitation Division of the Department of Health as Director, Mr. Walkinshaw had several years' ex- perience with consulting engineering firms in the municipal, structural and sanitary engineering fields and was em- ployed for nine years as lecturer and Assistant Professor of Civil Engineer- ing at the University of Toronto on the subjects of applied mechanics, sanitary

engineering, contracts and specifica- tions and municipal administration. He continued in his capacity of Director, Environmental Sanitation Division, until 1966, when through a Depart- ment of Health re-organization the Division became the Public Health En- gineering Service. Eventually in De- cember 1971 this Service was transfer- red from the Department of Health to the Department of the Environment, and subsequently became the Private Waste and Water Management Branch of the Ministry of the Environment.

During his career Mr. Walkinshaw was very active in the Canadian Public Health Association and was also a member of the American WaterWorks Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.

Mr. Walkinshaw is survived by his wife, Lydia, two sons, Robert of Allis- ton, Ontario, and James of Dunstable, England, and one daughter, Kathleen of Vancouver, British Columbia.

GORDON BATES

Dr. Gordon Bates, Vice-President and General Director of the Health League of Canada and Editor of Health , the official publication of the League, died on November 7, 1975.

He was born in Burlington, Ontario, son of the late Dr. Frank DeWitt and Annie (Grant) Bates. He obtained his M.D. degree from the University of

Toronto, where he also attended a post- graduate course in Political Science.

He held various appointments at the University of Toronto: Senior Demons- trator in Medicine; Instructor in the Departments of Physiology, Pathology, Chemistry and Bacteriology; Director of the Special Treatment Clinic, Toronto General Hospital; and Assis- tant Pathologist, Hospital for the In- sane, Toronto.

In the First World War he served with C. A.M.C. Base Hospital, Toronto, and later with H.Q. Staff, Military District No. 2, Toronto.

For 10 years, from 1917 to 1928, he edited The Public Health Journal of Canada , which in 1929 became the Canadian Public Health Journal , and in 1943 the Canadian Journal of Public Health. He was thus Dr. Defries' pre- decessor as Editor.

He abandoned his private practice and became Director of the organiza- tion now known as the Health League of Canada (formerly the Canadian Social Hygiene Council) when it was established in 1921. The Health League

of Canada has been named the "Cana- dian Citizens' Committee of the World Health Organization." He attended Geneva Conferences to promote Citi- zens' Committees in other countries.

As chief administrator of the Health League of Canada - Dr. Bates was at the time of his death its Vice-President and General Director - he was a dynamic and controversial champion of public health causes. Much of the credit for the eventual acceptance of pasteuri- zation of milk, fluoridation of com- munal water supplies, immunization against communicable diseases (diph- theria, poliomyelitis, whooping cough, tetanus and smallpox), and the control of venereal disease is due to him.

He was secretary of the Voluntary Committee on Health of the Senate and the House of Commons since its organi- zation, and instrumental in bringing outstanding health speakers into the House from many parts of the world.

In 1974 Dr. Bates was named to serve on a 7-man Rotary International's Re- search and Resources Committee, when he joined Rotarians from Argentina,

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France, Great Britain, Japan and New Zealand to advise the worldwide service organization's board of directors on ways that Rotary Club could become increasingly aware of environmental problems and contribute to solving them. Dr. Bates' contribution was "pol- lution of the mind".

As editor-in-chief of Health , the offi- cial publication of the Health League of Canada, Dr. Bates' vigorous and thought-provoking editorials attracted wide attention in Canada, the United States, and elsewhere.

Dr. Bates received many awards and honours. He was awarded the Order of

Canada (Medal of Service, 1970; Offi- cer of the Order, 1972); Medal of the Pasteur Institute, Paris; and Medal of the Comédie-Française, Paris. He was Honorary Vice-President of the France- Canada Association; Honorary Con- sultant to the Toronto General Hospi- tal; Senior Member of the Canadian Medical Association; Life Member of the Academy of Medicine, Toronto; and Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Toronto.

Among the tributes at the Conference in Toronto on Lifestyle and the Health of Canadians, sponsored by the Health League of Canada, was one from our

Patron, the Governor-General and Mrs. Léger. This tribute well sums up the life of Gordon Bates:

"The unfailing tenacity with which he fought all his life against disease reveals great resources of courage, and energy, coupled with compassion and love for his fellowmen. We are con- fident that the Health League of Canada will always remain faithful to his humanism. There is no doubt that his achievements will continue to be a great source of inspiration, pride and hope for many Canadians."

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