Frank Arthur Arnold qualified as a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London (LSA) in 1892 and as Bachelor of Medicine (MB) at the University of London in 1896. Two years later he was working in the Memorial Hospital, Bulawayo, in present Zimbabwe. While there he described a case of "Sarcoma of the femur" in The Lancet (1899). He was awarded the Diploma in Public Health (DPH) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1902. In December that same year he entered the public service of the Transvaal Colony, serving initially as district medical officer of health for the Eastern Transvaal and later as assistant medical officer of health of the Transvaal (1903). In December 1905 he was granted leave and the next year was awarded the Diploma in Tropical Medicine by the University of Liverpool. By 1908 he had been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Later in 1906 he became district medical officer of health for the Northern Transvaal, stationed in Pietersburg (now Polokwane, Limpopo). Subsequently he was appointed medical officer of health of the Transvaal (1910), and medical officer of health of the Union of South Africa from July 1911. By 1914 his post was in the Department of the Interior. He was registered to practice medicine in the Transvaal Colony in 1905.

Dr Arnold published two papers in the Transvaal Agricultural Journal, one on "The maggot fly" (1906/7, Vol. 5, pp. 907) and the other "On mosquito nets" (1907/8, Vol. 6, p. 13). He became a member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in 1903 when he was living in Middelburg (Mpumalanga) and was still a member in 1911, having lived in Pretoria since 1906 or earlier. By 1926 he had retired and was living at or near the railway station Mara, in Limpopo.

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Google scholar. http://scholar.google.co.za/ , publications by F. A. Arnold.

List of Fellows of the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Transactions of the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1908, Vol. 1. Retrieved on 10 January 2023 from https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/1/Supplement_C/v/1928124?login=false

Medical, dental and pharmacy directory of South Africa, 1926/7.

Medical, dental and pharmacy register for the Transvaal, 1907.

National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS). http://www.national.archives.gov.za/naairs.htm Repositories KAB and TAB: Documents relating to Arnold, Frank Arthur.

Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository, Vol. NMC 34: List of medical practitioners, dentists, chemists and druggists... [registered in the Transvaal, as on 31 December 1914].

South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Report, 1903, 1905/6, 1910, 1918: Lists of members.

Transvaal Agricultural Journal, 1902-1910, Vol. 1-9.

Transvaal civil service list, 1906.

Union of South Africa. Public service list, 1914.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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