Arthur Hill Hassall, physician & sanitary reformer : a short history of his work in public hygiene, and of movement against the adulteration of food and drugs / [Edwy Godwin Clayton].
- Clayton, Edwy Godwin.
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Arthur Hill Hassall, physician & sanitary reformer : a short history of his work in public hygiene, and of movement against the adulteration of food and drugs / [Edwy Godwin Clayton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Analytical Sanitary Commission, employed by the late Mr. Wakley, ‘ the Coroner,’ and superintended by Dr. Arthur Hill Hassall. The reports made by this Commission appeared in The Lancet, of which Mr. Wakley was editor, during the years 1851 to 1854, collected in the volume which we have named first at the head of this paper they form a most valuable contribution to the literature of adulteration.’— Westminster Review, 1869, 186, [Referring to Dr. Hassall’s ‘Food and its Adidterations,’ 1855.] 7A. ‘ We do not doubt or deny the good services which Dr. Hassall has rendered to the public; but we tremble either to eat or drink after his book has come into our hands. We look askance at the innocent grocer, the virtuous and respectable milkman. The wretches !—have they not been poisoning us secretly in their back parlours ? —mixing one knows not what abominations in our milk and in our tea? Yet the tea and the milk, where can we get substitutes for them—we, who can neither freight Chinamen, nor keep a dairy?’—Blackwood's Magazine, 1255, 229. [Review of 'Food and its Adidterations,' 1855.] 8. ‘. ... It will be enough to refer to the Adulteration of Food Act, i860, which was passed after a Parliamentary inquiry, instigated to a large extent by articles on the adulteration of food, which appeared in The Lancet in the years 1851, 1852, 1853, and 1854. That Act gave power to certain local authorities to appoint analysts having com- petent medical, chemical, and microscopical knowledge.’— The Westminster Review, (1888), 24. [Article, ‘/I dif/Zrrrt- tion of Food, and the Remedy. 9- ‘. . . The public may congratulate itself on the fact that the adulteration of . . . is a wholly obsolete iniquit3\ It is absolutely appalling to read what Dr. Arthur Hill Hassall,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28989995_0118.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
