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Newman, George

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Newman, George (1870–1948)

English bacteriologist, physician, and public health administrator. As chief medical officer of the Board of Education 1907–35 and of the Ministry of Health 1919–35, he was one of the main architects of the modern system of public health administration.

He was born in Leominster and educated at Edinburgh University and at King's College, London, where he worked as senior demonstrator of bacteriology and lecturer on infectious diseases 1896–1900. For a short time he was medical officer of health to Finsbury and to Bedfordshire.

His numerous publications include Bacteriology and the Public Health (1904), Hygiene and Public Health (1917), An Outline of the Practice of Preventive Medicine (1919), The Rise of Preventive Medicine (1932), and The Building of a Nation's Health (1939). He was knighted in 1911.



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