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 The Smith Family (Yalumba) ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 543 Mr. Sidney Smith was married in 1862. l''or several years he has been chairman of the Angaston District Council, and was associated with the volunteer movement. His sons, who render him the best of help, are Mr. Percival Smith, a committee-man of the Winegrowers' Association of South Australia, who -makes the wine and manages the cellars at Yalumba ; Mr. Fred. C. Smith, who resides at Angaston, and has earned the gratitude of the Province by introducing the spraying system for the destruction of fungi pests ; Mr. Sidney Osborne Smith, who looks after the canning establishment at Yalumba ; and Mr. Walter Grandy Smith, who manages the Adelaide branch of the firm, and travels in its interests through the East and New Zealand. The youngest member of the family is Mr. Archibald Smith, who is a student in the Roseworthy Agricultural College. The residence at Yalumba is one of the prettiest in the Province. Situated in one of the most charming country districts in Australia, it is surrounded by gardens rich in flowers and fruits, and by lightly-wooded hills. The late Dr. Horatio Thomas Whittell, M.R.C.S., M.D. THE late popular Coroner and Chairman of the Central Board of Health, was born at Warwick, England, in 1826, and was educated at a private school in Leamington until 1845, when he was entered at Queen's College, Birmingham. Pursuing the study of medicine, he gained his diploma as member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and became House Surgeon at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. After his hospital experience, the young medical man practised in the same city, and continued there for some 10 years, during which he obtained the M.D. degree at Aberdeen. He then left for Australia, and about the year i860 arrived in Adelaide. He practised in the capital alone for some time, and then entered into partnership with the late Dr. W. Gosse. In 1879, Dr. Whittell took Dr. J. D. Thomas as a partner, and after some time, sold his sh;ire in the practice to that gentleman, and proceeded to Europe and Great Britain to recruit his health. He remained away from .South Australia for two and a half years, during which he made a close study of new medical problems. He lent himself specially to research in bacteriology, and upon his return to Adelaide, he set up a well-equipped bacteriological laboratory on East Terrace. He was appointed President of the Central Board of Health in 1883; and in 1888 he became City Coroner, V^accination Officer, and Inspector of Anatomy. Dr. Whittell was a member of the Board of Management of the Adelaide Hospital ; he was also Honorary Surgeon, and afterwards Senior Consulting Physician to that institution. He was Examiner in Hygiene at the University of Adelaide, and was a member of the Council in the days when it was constituted on the nominee principle. He was one of the founders and an ex-president of the Microscopical Section of the Royal Society of South Australia. For a brief period he was Registrar of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. He was Chairman of the South Australian branch of the A. M. P. Society, and in the Freemasons, was a P. D.G. M. of the Grand Lodge of .South Australia. Dr. Whittell died on August 21, 1899, at the age of 7 t„ shortly after resigning his important public offices.