Obituary, SIR HUBERT BOND, K.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P
With the death of Sir Hubert Bond on April 18th, only a short time after his retirement from the office of Senior Commissioner of the Board of Control, the Mental Health Movement has lost one of its outstanding pioneers.
In 1912 Sir Hubert was appointed a Commissioner in Lunacy, and with the reconstitution of the Commission on the passing of the Mental Deficiency Act in 1913, he became one of the first members of the newly appointed Board.
Before this period he had had wide experience of the Mental Hospital service, holding appointments on the staffs of Morningside, Wakefield and Banstead Mental Hospitals, and he made his reputation as the best medical superintendent of his time when employed in that capacity by the London County Council at Ewell and Long Grove. During the War of 1914-18 he was lent to the Army Council for the organization of the Asylum War Hospital | Scheme, and for some years he was the Secretary? and in 1921-22 the President?of the Royal MedicoPsychological Association.
Sir Laurence Brock, late Chairman of the Board of Control, in an Obituary Notice published in the Manchester Guardian wrote, in personal testimony: ” No trouble was too much for him to take to j help any patients?and they were many?who wrote to him. Only those who have seen him going round a hospital can realize the genius he had for handling | the most difficult of all patients. His inexhaustible patience, his kindliness and his uncanny insight in dealing with the victims of mental disorder, made him loved and admired wherever he went… . By his passing, British psychiatry has lost its most outstanding figure, and many doctors and countless patients will mourn the loss of one who was a friend as well as a physician.”
The C.A.M.W. and the National Council for Rental Hygiene endorse this testimony for with both of them he was closely associated, and his advice and help were freely placed at their disposal.
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