Charles Ritchie BURNS OBE KBE KStG   
MB ChB (NZ), MD (NZ), FRACP 1938, FRCP (Lond), Hon DSc (Otago)
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Born Blenheim 27/5/1898    Died Auckland 8/2/1985

Educated at Marlborough High School, Nelson College and Otago University

MB ChB (NZ) with distinction 1922, MD (NZ) 1924, MRCP (Lond) 1925, FRACP 1938, FRCP (Lond) 1943, Hon DSc (Otago) 1975

Assistant Pathologist, Dunedin Hospital 1922
HS / HP, Dunedin Hospital 1923 Postgraduate study in England 1924 - 1925
Medical Registrar, Dunedin Hospital 1925 -

Resident Physician, New Plymouth Hospital

Visiting Assistant Physician, OPD Dunedin Hospital 1930 - 1937
Further postgraduate experience at the National Heart Hospital, London, 1932 Postgraduate study in London and Boston 1937 - 1938
Director, Division of Medicine, Auckland Hospital 1938 - 1939

Charles Burns

Physician in charge of Cardiology Department, Wellington Hospital 1939 - 1944, and 1947 - 1958
Visiting Physician, Wellington Hospital 1948 - 1958

Senior Physician, Home of Compassion 1940 - 1966

WW2 service in Italy (1945-46) and in Japan (1946-47)

Consultant to the Southland Hospital Board 1966
Medical Officer, Hanmer Springs Hospital 1969 - 1970
Director of Clinical Services, National Society on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence 1970 - 1975

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Obituary: NZMJ 1985 98:405

photograph courtesy
J O Mercer collection
Wellington Hospital