A WORCESTER street has been named in honour of a man who innovated the way babies are delivered.
David Wilson Homes named the road in their Broadheath Meadows development, Chalmers Close after the surgeon Hamish Chalmers who worked at Ronkswood maternity hospital from 1950 until 1977.
He died in 1998 and was the first in the country to introduce the ventouse instrument which aids the delivery of a baby.
It is used in the second stage of labour if it has not progressed adequately enough and may be an alternative to a forceps delivery and caesarean section.
The road sign was unveiled by the doctors two sons and daughter, Sir Iain, Dr Robert and Penelope Chalmers.
Dr Robert Chalmers said: “We are extremely proud that our father has been remembered in this way.
“It was wonderful to visit Broadheath Meadows and see his name on the signs, particularly as this is exactly where the Ronkswood Maternity Unit in which he worked for 25 years used to be.”
Steve Barton, senior sales manager at David Wilson Homes Mercia, said: “We are very pleased to have been able to recognise Mr Chalmers by naming a road after him at Broadheath Meadows.
“When choosing road names we aim to celebrate people who have had an impact in the area and Mr Chalmers certainly did this with his work at the maternity hospital,” he added.
