News of the death of another prominent doctor, Dr. Cecil Bennett, Medical Superintendent and Secretary of the Shanghai General Hospital, while on Home leave was received in Shanghai on Tuesday, April 28. He had been in indifferent health for the past four years and died on Thursday in Chichester. England. He is survived by his wife, who is in England, Dr. Bennett was about 54 years of age and his untimely death will be regretted by a host of friends he had made in Shanghai and other parts of China where he worked in earlier ays. Dr: Bennett, in his office, practised much charily, particularly in the northern district of Shanghai, and many a man and woman, who have been down on their luck, will reimemiber kindnesses he performed on their behalf.
Dr. Bennett first came out to the Far East in 1910 when he was con~ nected with the Syndicate Mines in Hongkong. The following year he served with the Plague Prevention Hospital in Chefoo. "In 1912 he suc ceeded Dr. Cox as Port Medical Officer at Woosung, and at about this time he married the daughter of the ate Commander F, W. Davies of Woosung, He held the post of Port Medical Officer until 1926 with the exception
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