Into New Year – and Retirement

Hartland district doctor for the past 25 years, Dr Wilfred Somerton, will go off duty for the last time at midnight on December 31st. He is retiring to Rye, Sussex, just a quarter of a century after he removed to Hartland where his practice covers 144 square miles.
Previously he was on the staff of a big military hospital in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, having trained at Charing Cross Hospital and served as a registrar.