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2 City Doctors leave to serve with Air Force
Drs. Malcolm MacLean and T.S. Perrett
Associate with the R.A.M.C Commissioned
[Welland Tribune 1940]
Two Welland physicians, Drs Malcolm MacLean and Thomas S. Perrett, will leave the city today to become associated with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Dr. MacLean medical practitioner in Fonthill and Welland since 1934 takes a commission with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, Royal Canadian Air Force. One of the most popular members of the city’s medical profession, he leaves behind him a well-established practice to serve in the air force.
A native of Arnprior, Ontario Dr. MacLean is a graduate of the University of Toronto. After graduation he took a post-graduate course in Toronto Western hospital, and in 1934 began his practice in Fonthill. Two years later on the death of Dr. Duncan Allison, Dr. MacLean took over the Welland practice. He has served as an officer of the medical staff of the Welland County General hospital as a coroner, has held the position of surgeon at the Welland county jail, was examiner for Orient Lodge, I.O.O.F; and was associated with the Empire Cotton Mills, Ltd and the John Deere Plough Co., Ltd.
In the social sphere Dr. MacLean is a member of the Optimist Club and the Welland Club. He is a member of First Baptist church, Welland and has acted as a member of the finance committee of the congregation.
Mrs. MacLean will remain in the city for a short time.
Dr. Allan D. Rice of Toronto will occupy Dr. MacLean’s office during his absence. Dr Rice who like Dr. MacLean is a graduate of Toronto University, has been occupied with post-graduate work since his graduation..
Dr. Thomas Stewart Perrett, son of Lieutenant Colonel T.E. Perrett of Toronto, has been accepted with the medical unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force, and leaves Welland this evening for destinations unknown.
is a popular young Welland physician who came to this city a little more than a year ago from Toronto. He was born in Regina, was educated there, attending Regina Collegiate Institute, and in 1925 he journeyed east and came to the University of Toronto where he graduated in Arts and Medicine in 1932. He then took a post graduate course at the Toronto General hospital and finally came to Welland to open up a practice. He has been associated in Welland with the Physicians’ Building, East Main Street. He married Miss Evelyn Golding, daughter of W.H. Golding,M.P. for the Huron-Perth riding.
Dr. Perrett, who is being gazetted as Lieutenant Perrett, holds the honorary degree of Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and he is also a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
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