page_title: John Francis Sutherland
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: John Francis Sutherland / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: J.F. S First Aid to Injured and Sick
context_page_description: Dr John Francis Sutherland FRSE FRSS was a Scottish physician, linked to senior civil service medical roles. His booklet "First Aid to Injured and Sick" was a best seller throughout the 20th century.
context_section_description: He was born in Lybster in Caithness in 1854. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh under Joseph Lister, graduating with an MB ChB around 1874. He did further postgraduate studies in Glasgow and Paris.
  His first role was as Deputy Medical Officer on HMS Mars, a Royal Navy training ship in 1874. He then became Resident Medical Officer in the British Hospital in Paris, working with Sir John Rose Cormack, Edward Neech and Alan Herbert.
  In 1880 he gained his doctorate (MD) and entered a new role as Medical Officer to HM Prisons, living at 19 Roslea Drive in the Dennistoun district of Glasgow, which was then a newly built tenemental flat. In 1897 he was promoted to Consulting Medical Officer for the newly constructed Barlinnie Prison. Working in this environment he gained a knowledge of insanity, inebriety and criminology. He served on the Committee for Habitual Offenders and Inebriates and did much to push for penal reform.
  In 1896 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Sir Arthur Mitchell, John Sibbald and Sir John Halliday Croom.
  In 1895 he moved to Edinburgh as Deputy Commissioner of Lunacy (based at Craig House) initially living at 4 Merchiston Bank Avenue and later moving to 3 Moston Terrace in the Mayfield district.
  He died at 15 Rutland Square in Edinburgh's West End, his home for his final years, in January 1912 aged 57. He is buried with his ancestors at Kildary in Easter Ross.
caption: J.F. S First Aid to Injured and Sick
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