Sir James Spence Kt MC MD LLD Durham Hon DSc FRCP,Professor of Child Health (1928–1954)

Charles JA . Memoir. The Purpose and Practice of Medicine. Selections from the Writings of Sir James Spence. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Fox T . Reprinted with additions from the Lancet, 5, 12 and 19 June 1954; pp 1190-1, 1247-8, 1302.

Ridley U . The Babies Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle upon Tyne: Andrew Reid and Company, 1956.

Spence JC . Clinical study of nutritional xerophthalmia and night blindness. Arch Dis Child 1931;6:17–26.

Spence JC . Benign tuberculous infiltration of the lung (epituberculosis). Arch Dis Child 1932;:1–8.

Spence JC . Clinical test of the antirachitic activity of calciferol. Lancet 1933;225:911–15.

Miller FJW . The Newcastle Dispensary 1777–1976. Archaelogia Aeliana Fifth Series, vol XVIII, 1990:177–95.

Spence JC . Investigation into the Health and Nutrition of Certain of the Children of Newcastle upon Tyne, Between the Ages of One and Five Years. Newcastle upon Tyne: Co-operative Printing Society, 1934.

Spence JC Miller FJW . Infant Mortality in Newcastle upon Tyne During 1939. Newcastle upon Tyne: City and County Council., 1941

Cooke AM . A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London, vol 3. London: Royal College of Physicians, 1972:1065, 1079, 1087.

Spence JC . Paediatrics in Universities and Teaching Hospitals. Memorandum for the Trustees of the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust. Newcastle upon Tyne: North Eastern Regional Hospitals Advisory Council, 1942.

Ministry of Health, Department of Health for Scotland. Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Medical Schools. London: HMSO, 1944.

Charles JA (op. cit. ref. 1): 23.

Williams H . Personal Correspondence.

Spence JC . The Purpose of the Family. The Convocation Lecture, 1946, of the National Children's Home. London: Epworth Press, 1947.

Spence JC . The care of children in hospital. BMJ 1947;i:125–30.

Spence JC . The Need for Understanding the Individuals as Part of the Training and Function of Doctors and Nurses. London: National Association for Mental Health, 1949.

Spence JC . Family studies in preventive paediatrics. New Engl J Med 1950;243:205–10.