WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY
Cattell, Sydney R
Sydney Rivers CATTELLMB ChB (NZ) 1919
Born Wellington 6 May 1891 Died Leeston, Canterbury 24 Jan 1959
Sydney Cattell
Educated at Wanganui Collegiate and Wellington College
Initially studied law at Victoria University College, but did not complete the LLB
HS, Wellington Hospital 1919
He was living in Auckland in the early 1920s
Practised in Tauranga 1922 – 1925, before moving back to Wellington in 1925
Honorary Physician, Wellington Hospital 1926 – 1933
Worked as ship’s doctor on the RMS Maunganui, on the San Fransisco run 1933
In 1935, moved to Leeston, where he remained in private (Lodge) practice for the next 24 years.
photograph courtesy Harley Cattell