Dimond, J Leonard

Born Waikato 1 Jul 1898 Died Wellington 7 Feb 1977
Len Dimond
ENT Surgeon in Maidstone, Kent for 5 years
WW2 service with the RAMC, initially as an Otologist, then at the Porton Experimental Station.
He was then sent to India, where he made the original observation that temporary nerve deafness was an early sign in troops afflicted with scrub typhus.
He returned to Wellington after the war
Visiting Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1946 – 1968

Obituary: NZMJ 1977 85:341
photograph courtesy NZMJ