Arthur Newsholme
Sir Arthur Newsholme, K.C.B., M.D.(Lond.), F.R.C.P. (10 February 1857 – 17 May 1943) was a leading British public health expert during the Victorian era.
Personal life
He was born at Haworth and died at Worthing. He recalled talking with people who had known the Brontes. He was educated in Haworth and Keighley; entered St Thomas' Hospital, London, 1875
His mother was widowed at a young age.
Career
- Graduated MB, London, 1880; MD, London, 1881.
- 1884 appointed part-time Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for the parish of Clapham
- 1888 appointed MOH for Brighton
- conducted research in epidemiology, particularly relating to tuberculosis, scarlet fever, and diphtheria
- 1895 gave Milroy lectures at Royal College of Physicians on The Natural History and Affinities of Rheumatic Fever
- 1900–1901 President, Society of Medical Officers of Health
- 1908 appointed Principal Medical Officer, Local Government Board; served for ten years in this post dealing particularly with tuberculosis, maternity and child-welfare, and venereal diseases
- President of the Society of Medical Officers of Health
- 1910–1919 Sat as crown nominee on the General Medical Council
- Examined for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London.
- Member of the executive of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
- 1914–1918 served on Army Sanitary Committee with rank of Lt Col, Royal Army Medical Corps.
- 1909 He moved to the Local Government Board, supported by John Burns (1858–1943)
- 1919 Retired from Whitehall; invited by W. H. Welch to lead the new School of Hygiene at Johns Hopkins University; many links with Russia.
- 1920–1921 Lecturer on Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; continued to write and lecture on public health, with visits to other countries, including the Soviet Union in 1933
Awards
- 1898 FRCP London
- 1912 Made CB
- 1917 Made KCB
Bibliography
- 1908: The Prevention of Tuberculosis
- 1925: The Ministry of Health
- 1927: Evolution of Preventive Medicine
- 1929: The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine
- 1932: Medicine and the State with John Adams Kingsbury.
- 1933: Red Medicine with John Adams Kingsbury.
- 1935: Fifty Years in Public Health
- 1936: The Last Thirty Years in Public Health
Publications
Hygiene (1884); School Hygiene (1887); The Elements of Vital Statistics (1889); `Vital Statistics of Peabody Buildings' Journal of the Statistical Society (1891); `The Alleged Increase of Cancer', with G. King (Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1893); Natural History and Affinities of Rheumatic Fever (Milroy Lecture, 1895); Epidemic Diphtheria: a Research on the Origin and Spread of the Disease from an International Standpoint (1898); The Prevention of Phthisis, with special reference to its Notification to the MOH (1899); `An Inquiry into the Principal Causes of the Reduction of the Death-Rate from Phthisis' Journal of Hygiene (1906); The Brighton Life Tables, 1881–1890 and 1891–1923; International Studies on the Relation between the Private and Official Practice of Medicine (3 vols, 1931); American Addresses on Health and Insurance (1920).
Miscellaneous
A bus in Brighton has been named after him.[1]
References
- ↑ 728 Sir Arthur Newsholme. history.buses.co.uk
- Obituary in The Lancet of 29 May 1943
- Obituary] in American Journal of Public Health
- Eyler, J. M. (2002) Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885–1935. Cambridge University Press.
- Sheard, Sally (2006), The Nation's Doctor, London: The Nuffield Trust