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SIR ARTHUR NEWSHOLME was born at Haworth, the village of the Brontes, on February 10, 1857. He received his medical education at St. Thomas's Hospital and took the degree of M.D.(Lond.) after a brilliant academic career. After holding resident appointments at St. Thomas's and other hospitals, he started in general practice at Clapham. But his interest was early directed towards public health, for in 1884 he was appointed part-time medical officer of health for Clapham, and took the public health diploma at the University of London. His early reports show the application of scientific principles to the study of disease outbreaks and reveal that he was already making a special study of problems of local and national vital statistics, density of population as a factor in excessive death-rates, and the need for local intensive comparison of death-rates. In 1884 he published a book on “Hygiene” , and in 1887 a manual on “School Hygiene” .
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MACNALTY, A. Sir Arthur Newsholme, K.C.B. Nature 151, 635–636 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151635a0
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