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1910Suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh
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1913Tagore wins Nobel Prize
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1922Saklatvala, Communist MP
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1926Indian restaurant
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1929Indian independence campaign
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1931Gandhi in Britain
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1934Krishna Menon, Asian Labour Politician
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1937Indian Workers' Association
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1938Chuni Lal Katial, public health pioneer
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1939India in World War II
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1947Independence and Partition
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Intro
Chuni Lal Katial was elected Mayor of Finsbury in 1938. He was the first Asian mayor in Britain. A successful doctor in the East End he accompanied Gandhi during his visit in 1931. Katial later moved to Finsbury, north London, where he ran a popular surgery among the working classes. A member of the Labour Party, Finsbury elected him as a councillor in 1934.
Katial made his mark as the Chairman of the Public Health Committee. Opened in 1938, Finsbury Health Centre in Pine Street pioneered a centralised health service housing all facilities under one roof. Katial’s vision was a new concept in medicine at the time and the Health Centre became universally famous. For his public services, he was honoured with the Freedom of the Borough of Finsbury in 1948.
Shelfmark: 1937 LON 664 [1937] NPL
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