Thresh , John Clough , 1850-1932 , physician

Born, 1850; degree of DSc, London, 1884; graduated in medicine at the Victoria University, Manchester; 1889; Diploma of Public Health of the University of Cambridge, 1892; MD, 1896; first Medical Officer of Health for the County of Essex; Consulting Medical Officer; Lecturer in Public Health at the London Hospital Medical College; Examiner in State Medicine for the University of London; one of the early pioneers who established the importance of hygiene in connection with the home; died, 1932.