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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![sufficient reward.’ Another gentleman wrote, in reference to the anticipated continuance to Dr. Hassall’s widow of the pension from the Civil List:—‘ which would be accepted by the whole medical profession as a well-deserved and gracious memorial of Dr. Hassall’s public services.’] 15- ‘ It is undoubtedly due to his ardent work in connection with sanitary reform that we have to-day such an elaborate method of supervising public health from a scientific point of view, and such widespread means for the detection of food adulteration. ‘ It was due to the movement he made in 1850 to devise methods for the detection of food adulteration that the matter was first taken up by The Lancet. As the result of his further researches, such an alarming state of affairs was revealed that a Select Parliamentary Committee was formed in 1885, the outcome of the labours of which being the first Food Adulteration Act of i860.’—The Chemical Trade Journal, January 19, 1895. 16. ‘ Most eminent chemist of his time, he became associated with The Lancet Analytical Sanitary Commission, 1851-54, which led to the framing of the Adulteration Act of i860 and finally to the adoption of the Foods and Drugs Act, 1875.’—Notes and Queries, 9th S., viii., July 20, 1901, 59. 17- ‘ Hassall, Arthur Hill . . . English physician and sani- tarian; wrote reports in The Lancet (1851-54), which led to the passing of anti-adulteration Acts and the appointment of public analysts; conducted investigations during the cholera epidemic of 1853-54, during which he observed the organism “ comma ” bacillus, long afterwards described by Koch ; and in 1868 founded the Consumption Hospital at Ventnor, advocating much of the open-air treatment now in vogue.’— [‘ The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia,’ 1905, vol. iv.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28989995_0123.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
