As previously recorded, Dr. Michael Steele sold his practice and his home on Hope Street West, to Dr. Charles R. McTavish in 1922. Charles Russell McTavish was born in the village of Mountain, in the County of Dundas. After graduating from Kemptville Collegiate Institute, he began his studies in medicine at McGill in Montreal, but later transferred to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he graduated with a medical degree in 1917. He went to England with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and after his return to Canada practised for short periods in Grant and Appin before coming to Tavistock in 1922.

He and his wife, the former Elsie McQueen were sociable, congenial young people and soon acquired many good friends in the community. Dr. McTavish was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church and later of Knox United Church in Tavistock. He was also a member of Tavistock Lodge A.F. and A.M. The community shocked and saddened when, after a short illness, Dr. McTavish died of pneumonia on April 11, 1930. He was survived by his wife and young son, Alan.

On May 5, 1930, Mrs. McTavish accepted an offer to purchase, from Dr. Harold M. Taylor, who arrived in Tavistock on May 15th, to begin his medical practice, with an office in the house purchased forty-five years previously by Dr. Rankin. This marked the beginning of a six year period when medical care in the community was provided by the combined efforts of a recent graduate and an older, experienced and very capable family physician, in the person of Dr. Fred Cawthorpe, whose professional example, was an incentive to the younger doctor. Although each conducted an individual practice, there was a spirit of co-operation which was beneficial to patients and doctors alike.

After the death of Dr. Cawthorpe in 1936, Mrs. Cawthorpe failed to sell her property to another doctor and so, for the first time in more than forty-five years, there was no longer a medical office at that location.

In the fall of 1936, Dr. Eugene E. Tiemen, a graduate of the University of Western Ontario in 1935, opened an office on Woodstock Street N., in the home of Mrs. Otto Kalbfleisch. He had been here only a short time, however, when he was notified that an application for an appointment in the Armed Service had been accepted and he left Tavistock to take his commission.

At this time John K. Fisher was in his final year in Medical School at the University of Western Ontario. Having heard that Dr. Tiemen had left Tavistock, he decided that he would like to come here to practise following graduation in June, 1937.

Arrangements were made for Dr. Kenneth Mitten, a recent graduate, top open the office vacated by Dr. Tiemen and remain here until Dr. Fisher was ready to take over the practice in July, 1937. At this time Dr. Fisher purchased the property from Mrs. Kalbfleisch. To this home he brought his bride, formerly Doris Chowen of Stratford and they still live, thirty years later. John Kippen Fisher was born in Stratford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Williams Fisher. His ancestry also includes members of the Kippen and Stewart families, who like the Fisher family, were people of Scottish origin who came as settlers to the Township of North Easthope in the early days. Jack Fisher attended Stratford Collegiate and later worked for a time for the Bell Telephone Company, before enrolling as a medical student at the University of Western Ontario, where he obtained his medical degree in 1937.

The people of Tavistock were pleased to know that another young doctor had decided to make his home in the village and Dr. Fisher soon developed an active medical practice. In a joint effort to provide adequate medical care in the community, he and Dr. Taylor co-operated in plans to insure the availability of at least one doctor on week-ends and during periods of vacation. This satisfactory relationship has continued during many years of practice together in Tavistock and has been well accepted by patients.

Dr. Fisher has contributed to the welfare of the community in many ways. He has participated very actively in Masonic work and is a Past Master of the Tavistock Lodge and a Past District Deputy Grand Master of South Huron District. He was a charter member of the Men's Club and a charter member and Past President of the Rotary Club of Tavistock. He served on the Tavistock School Board from 1954 until June, 1960 and was Chairman of the Board from January, 1956 until December, 1958. After thirty years of service to the village and district, Dr. Fisher is still engaged in medical practice in Tavistock.