DR.Samuel Gill
. Mental Deficiency work has lost another pioneer In Dr Gill who died on February 2nd in Brighton. . Almost his whole professional career was spent ln the care of mental defectives, first as Medical Superintendent of the Farmfield L.C.C. Institution for delinquent defectives, then as a medical inspector and later as a Commissioner of the Board of Control, and lastly as Medical Director of the Guardianship Society, Brighton, a post he held at the time of his death. For a number of years he represented that Society on the Executive Council of the Central Association for Mental Welfare and he was a friend on whom the Association could always rely for understanding sympathy and support.
He was always an ardent believer in the boardingout of defectives in private families, and his booklet, Some Notes on Mental Deficiency Practice, was written specially for medical practitioners called upon to issue Special Reports and Certificates on such defectives, required by the Board of Control under the Mental Deficiency Acts.
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