Psychiatric Bulletin (2007) 31: 237. doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.107.015768
© 2007 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
David Richard Kilvington Street
Elizabeth M. Cooke
Formerly Medical Superintendent, Rampton Hospital
David Street graduated MB ChB in Leeds in 1943 and was a house physician at
Leeds General Infirmary until 1944 when he moved to Pinderfields Emergency
Hospital, Wakefield. Between 1944 and 1946 David was the clinical assistant of
the neurological unit attached to Sheffield Royal Hospital. It was here that
he became involved in general psychiatry and neurology. His National Service
between 1945 and 1948 was spent in psychiatry at Carstairs Military Hospital
and Northfield Neurosis Centre, Birmingham. Between 1948 and 1951 he was a
registrar at Clifton Hospital in York. His move to the post of senior
registrar took him to the York Retreat but he returned to Clifton Hospital in
1952.
In 1957 he moved to Broadgate Hospital, Beverley, East Yorkshire. The
following year, at the age of 38, he became Consultant Psychiatrist and Deputy
Medical Superintendent at Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire. A few months
later he was to become the Medical Superintendent, a position which he held
with esteem until 1974. He moved in that year to Moss Side Hospital, Maghull,
Liverpool and remained there until his retirement in 1980. Between 1960 and
1973 he was involved in much collaborative work on chromosome abnormalities
and published several papers.
Dr Street was elected a founder member of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists in 1971 and was elected to FRCPsych in 1989. He died on 7 June
2006, having been predeceased by his wife, Helen, in 2004. He leaves behind a
daughter and two grandchildren.
