Ernestine Henry Lecture


The Ernestine Henry Lecture is a talk based on occupation hazards, delivered every three years. It was endowed to the Royal College of Physicians in London, in 1949 by British physician Sydney Alexander Henry, in memory of his mother Ernestine Henry, the wife of a General Practitioner in Rochdale, Lancashire. It is now delivered as part of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine/Society of Occupational Medicine annual conference "Occupational Health"

Lecturers

YearsNameLecture titleNotesImage
1949Donald [Hunter (physician)|Donald Hunter]"Devices for the protection of the worker against injury and disease"
1952Ronald E. Lane"Blood changes in industrial disease"
1955Kenneth M. A. Perry"Pulmonary disease associated with metallic oxides"
1958Jerry N. Morris"Coronary heart disease and occupation"
1961John Morrison Barnes"The mode of action of some toxic substances with special reference to the effects of prolonged exposure"
1964R. C. Browne"Coal miner's nystagmus - psyche and soma"
1967Georgiana Bonser"Factors concerned in the location of human and experimental tumours"
1970Richard Selwyn Francis Schilling"Hazards of deep-sea fishing"
1973F. S. Cooksey"Concerning the management of chronic and progressive disability"
1976E. P. G. H. Du Boulay"Radiation hazards"
1979P. C. Elms"The relative importance of cigarette smmoking in occupational lung disease"
1983K. W. Donald"Diver's diseases"
1990J. M. Harrington"The health of health care workers"
1996David Coggon"New occupational diseases"
1999Robert Ian McCallum"The industrial toxicology of antimony"
2011Sir Michael Marmot
2024Gary J. MacfarlaneMusculoskeletal Health and Work