Greenhill , William Alexander , 1814-1894 , physician and sanitary reformer

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Greenhill , William Alexander , 1814-1894 , physician and sanitary reformer

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        Born, 1814; educated at a private school at Edmonton and at Rugby School, 1828-1832; Trinity College, Oxford, 1832; studied at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; visited Paris to gain knowledge of the hospital practice there, 1836-1837; physician to the Radcliffe, 1839; DM, 1840; member of the Theological Society; in the 1840s turned he studied Arabic and Greek medical writers and published a Greek and Latin edition of The Physiology of Theophilus (1842) and an English translation from the Arabic of Rhazes, entitled Treatise on the Small Pox and Measles (1847); became interested in sanitary matters, 1849; moved to Hastings, 1851; founded the Hastings Cottage Improvement Society in 1857 and remained its secretary until 1891; founded the London Labourers' Dwelling Society, secretary, 1862-1876; founded the Albert House Institution for Domestic Servants at St Leonards, Sussex; helped to found the local Mendicity Society for wayfarers; studied the writings of Sir Thomas Browne; editorial staff of the British Medical Journal;died, 1894.

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