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What could show up on our photographs
The high quailty images that were taken during our tests could show the slightest mark.
The medical test photographs were taken a few days after my leg had been caned by our class teacher.
The photograph was eventually sent to the headmaster.
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Another result of the calf and knee X-ray.
24.06.66 Note to Sister Ann (Hospital) from Governor of Harpenden NCH.
I have had a phone call from the Medical Officer for Highfield.
Philip has an air-gun pellet above the inside of his left knee; this was revealed in a recent X-ray.
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Gun pellet removed in December 1966.
At the National Children's Home during my stay, I was one of the children that was part of the growth study tests that were made over several years on children that were living at the Home.
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It is with regret that I have to inform all those who were in the Highfield Growth Study Tests at Harpenden, that Dr Tanner has passed away at the age of 90
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Professor James Mourilyan Tanner: 1920-2010
A tribute based on a eulogy written and read by Professor Noel Cameron from Loughborough University at his funeral at Exeter Crematorium on August 23rd, 2010, with some extracts from the funeral service conducted by Alison Orchard from the British Humanist Association:
He was born in Camberley Surry to a military family on 1st August 1920, educated at Wellington School, and by the early years of the War he was studying medicine at St Mary’s in London. There was a scheme to send senior medical students abroad to finish their medical training away from the rigours of wartime London, and Jim was sent to the University of Pennsylvania in.
By 1948 he was a lecturer in Physiology at the Sherrington School and following a presentation on his travels to the Royal Society, and a fortuitous meeting with a Dr. Bransby who was in the audience and had spent the war years using a National Children’s home in Harpenden to develop appropriate rationing levels for children, Jim’s Harpenden Longitudinal Growth Study started in 1949 and was to continue for the next 25 years.
The Harpenden study became the core research project of Jim’s career, it formed the dataset on which many of his most significant contributions were based and continues to be a model for those wishing to develop a longitudinal study of human growth and development.
During an academic and research career covering 7 decades and over 300 publications Jim became recognised as the world’s foremost authority on human growth and development or “auxology” as he coined the term for the study of human growth.
Professor Noel Cameron
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Highfield NCH children remember him well
Philip
What could show up on our photographs
The high quailty images that were taken during our tests could show the slightest mark.
The medical test photographs were taken a few days after my leg had been caned by our class teacher.
The photograph was eventually sent to the headmaster.
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Another result of the calf and knee X-ray.
24.06.66 Note to Sister Ann (Hospital) from Governor of Harpenden NCH.
I have had a phone call from the Medical Officer for Highfield.
Philip has an air-gun pellet above the inside of his left knee; this was revealed in a recent X-ray.
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Gun pellet removed in December 1966.
At the National Children's Home during my stay, I was one of the children that was part of the growth study tests that were made over several years on children that were living at the Home.
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It is with regret that I have to inform all those who were in the Highfield Growth Study Tests at Harpenden, that Dr Tanner has passed away at the age of 90
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Professor James Mourilyan Tanner: 1920-2010
A tribute based on a eulogy written and read by Professor Noel Cameron from Loughborough University at his funeral at Exeter Crematorium on August 23rd, 2010, with some extracts from the funeral service conducted by Alison Orchard from the British Humanist Association:
He was born in Camberley Surry to a military family on 1st August 1920, educated at Wellington School, and by the early years of the War he was studying medicine at St Mary’s in London. There was a scheme to send senior medical students abroad to finish their medical training away from the rigours of wartime London, and Jim was sent to the University of Pennsylvania in.
By 1948 he was a lecturer in Physiology at the Sherrington School and following a presentation on his travels to the Royal Society, and a fortuitous meeting with a Dr. Bransby who was in the audience and had spent the war years using a National Children’s home in Harpenden to develop appropriate rationing levels for children, Jim’s Harpenden Longitudinal Growth Study started in 1949 and was to continue for the next 25 years.
The Harpenden study became the core research project of Jim’s career, it formed the dataset on which many of his most significant contributions were based and continues to be a model for those wishing to develop a longitudinal study of human growth and development.
During an academic and research career covering 7 decades and over 300 publications Jim became recognised as the world’s foremost authority on human growth and development or “auxology” as he coined the term for the study of human growth.
Professor Noel Cameron
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Highfield NCH children remember him well
Philip