Colonel Kenneth MacLeod

MacLeod, i.m.s. (retired), on the 17th December 1922, at the age of 82 years will have been received in Calcutta by his many friends with much regret, as it means the breaking of another of the few remaining links with the oldtime days when the Service which he so much adorned was in its pristine glory and usefulness. Kenneth MacLeod was born in North Uist in 1840: he took his M. A., Edin., in 1857 and his M. D., Hons., Edin., in 1861. Entering the 1. M. S., in 1865 as the first of 70 candidates for the competitive examination, he sailed for India in the IValuier Castle on October 4th, 1865, landed at Calcutta on January 17th, 1866, and was posted to Jessore as Civil Assistant Surgeon. Here his suavity of manner and very great professional ability soon brought him a large practice. His attention was immediately drawn to poverty as a factor of importance in the epidemic diseases of India, and above all to cattle plague and kindred diseases of cattle as contributory factors to such poverty. In 1869 at his instance the Cattle Plague Commission was instituted and he was appointed Secretary to the Commission, and in 1871 he became Secretary to the Inspector-General of Hospitals, I.M.S. He was appointed Professor of Surgical Anatomy and Second Surgeon, Calcutta Medical College, in 1874. The report of the Cattle Plague Commission led to the reali-