James Hartley Blakelock (1903 – 27 August 1955) was a New Zealand medical doctor born in Chesterfield, England.
[3] This also involved a large amount of histology and the overall supervision of a laboratory dealing with 40–60,000 general bacteriological specimens and 2-4000 Wasserman and Kahn tests annually.
[3] After the outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostilities in 1932 and 1937 normal services were dislocated and Blakelock was seconded for refugee work which included the evacuation and reorganization of hospitals.
[3] Blakelock transferred to New Zealand whenJapan' entered the Second World War.
During this period, Blakelock intensified diphtheria immunization, introduced whooping cough immunisation and carried out a pilot tuberculosis survey on Maori school children.
Blakelock was transferred in 1944 to Christchurch where he served as Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury and West Coast.
[4] During his brief tenure work was commenced on toxoplasmosis, influenza A and B, psittacosis, Q fever, mumps and lymphocytic chorio-meningitis.
[5] These latter services were administered by Sydney Josland, a bacteriologist who had previously worked at the Wallaceville Animal Research Centre.