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'''Chuni Lal Katial''' (1898{{spaced ndash}}1978) was a [[South Asian]] [[physician|doctor]] and [[politician]], who became the first [[United Kingdom|UK's]] South Asian [[mayor]], after being elected mayor of [[Finsbury]] in 1938.<ref name=mayor>[http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections-Research/Research/Your-Research/RWWC/themes/1084/1149 Museum of London "Indian London"]</ref><ref name=mayor2>[http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=conInformationRecord.83 20th Century London "Indian London"]</ref> He was born in the [[Punjab Region]] in 1898.<ref name=born>{{Cite web |url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MuseumOfLondon/Templates/microsites/generic/details_alt.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7B8A56F412-705D-4BAF-A5D8-CBF0EBA3F1F5%7D&NRORIGINALURL=%2FEnglish%2FCollections%2FOnlineResources%2FRWWC%2Fobjects%2Frecord.htm%3Ftype%3Dobject%26id%3D63689&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest&type=object&id=63689 |title=Museum of London "Desk" |access-date=22 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217021725/http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MuseumOfLondon/Templates/microsites/generic/details_alt.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7b8A56F412-705D-4BAF-A5D8-CBF0EBA3F1F5%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2fEnglish%2fCollections%2fOnlineResources%2fRWWC%2fobjects%2frecord%2ehtm%3ftype%3dobject%26id%3d63689&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest&type=object&id=63689 |archive-date=17 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Career==
Dr. Katial came to London in or around 1929, and started his career running a medical practice in [[Canning Town]].<ref name=canning>[http://savefinsburyhealthcentre.wordpress.com/history/ Save Finsbury Health Centre]</ref> During that time, Dr. Katial - an acquaintance of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] - introduced [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Gandhi]] to [[Charlie Chaplin]], at his house in Canning Town on 22 September 1931.<ref name=chaplin>[http://www.newhamstory.com/node/806 Newham Story "Charlie Chaplin and Mr. Gandhi"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121073805/http://www.newhamstory.com/node/806 |date=21 November 2015 }}</ref><ref name=chaplin2>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newhamstory.com/node/2523 |title=Newham Story "Gandhi & Chaplin" |access-date=16 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123053820/http://www.newhamstory.com/node/2523 |archive-date=23 January 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1935, Dr. Katial came to prominence as Chairman of the Public Health Committee of [[Finsbury]] Council, where he was responsible for pushing forward a programme for health and housing known as the Finsbury Plan - an ambitious plan to build a centralised facility that would incorporate a health centre, libraries, public baths and nurseries in the famously [[working class]] council.<ref name=finsburyplan>[http://www.open2.net/modernity/3_5.htm Open2.net "From Here to Modernity"]</ref> In 1937, as part of this plan, Dr. Katial commissioned [[architect]] [[Berthold Lubetkin]] to build the [[Finsbury Health Centre]].<ref name=fhc>[http://www.thecnj.com/islington/2009/100909/inews100909_08.html Islington Tribune "Pioneer's grandchildren plea to save historical health centre"]</ref><ref name=fhc2>[http://www.bmj.com/content/338/bmj.b683.extract BMJ "Nothing is too good for ordinary people"]</ref> The Centre was renowned both for its architectural style and its new approach to centralised health - housing multiple free medical facilities under one roof, and predating the [[National Health Service]] by over 10 years.<ref name=nhs>[http://ukpmc.ac.uk/articles/PMC2151817/reload=0;jsessionid=E154AC754DCBD3F1E76A2581AFF44EE8.jvm1 UK PubMed Central "Asian Doctors in the NHS"]</ref>

In 1938 to 1939, Dr. Katial was elected mayor of Finsbury Council. During the [[Second World War]], he served as a First-Air Medical Officer. On 8 June 1948, he was granted the Freedom of the Borough of Finsbury.<ref name=bmj>[http://www.bmj.com/content/1/4564/1267.extract British Medical Journal (26 June 1948) Medical News]</ref><ref name=bmj2>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2090113/pdf/brmedj03735-0024c.pdf British Medical Journal (26 June 1948) Medical News, hosted on National Center for Biotechnology Information]</ref>

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