Dr Peter Laird McKinlay FRSE FSS (1901 – 8 December 1972) was a Scottish medical statistician.
He studied Medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChB in 1923.
[1] From 1930 to 1960 he was Superintendent of Statistics at General Register House, succeeding James Craufurd Dunlop.
[2] In the Second World War he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps.
See[3] In 1929 he contributed to the World Health Organization’s report on Infant Mortality[4]