A lifelong champion of the reputation of the founder of professional midwifery in the British isles, William Smellie, Cameron both named a maternity hospital at Lanark, Scotland, after him and saved Smellie's library from permanent loss.
Cameron, who was a staunch advocate for William Smellie, the pioneer of professional midwifery in Britain, not only named a maternity hospital in Lanark, Scotland, after Smellie but also ensured that his library was preserved from being lost forever.