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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![thanks, jocosely intimated that this evening, for once, he had enjoyed “ unadulterated” pleasure. The hon. gentleman at the same time took occasion to express his regret at a temporary estrangement from Dr. Hassall (“ a mere lovers’ quarrel ”), declaring that he came to the festival for the express purpose of bearing his testimony to Dr. Hassall’s inflexible integrity and brilliant abilities, and assuring his (Dr. Hassall’s) “slanderers ” that they should not assail him unjustly. Dr. W. Lewis afterwards proposed “ The Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Adulteration of Food.” Mr. Alechi gave “ The Press,” which was responded to by Mr. Warren ; and special toasts were subse- quently drunk in honour of Mr. Thwaites, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and Mr. Mechi, as an agricultural improver, to whose merits ample justice was rendered by Mr. Wakley. The festival was protracted to a very late hour of the evening.’—The Times, May i6, 1856. [A similar account of this function appeared in The Lancet, 1856, i. 562.] 2. ‘ Yesterday the ceremony of presenting a testimonial to Dr. Hassall, in recognition of the benefits which he has conferred on the community by his scientific labours in con- nection with the subject of adulteration, took place at a public dinner at the Freemasons’ Hall, at which Lord William Lennox presided, in the absence of Viscount Ebrington, M.P., who was prevented from attending by sudden indisposition. About 100 gentlemen, comprising noblemen, members of Parliament, and others eminent in science and literature, were present on the occasion, amongst others the following; Mr. Oliveira, M.P., Sir Thomas Tancred, Mr. Wakley, Admiral Duntze, Major Sibthorp, M.P., Mr. Thwaites (the President of the Board of Works), Dr. Farr, P.R.S., Mr. Tuxford, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Hancock, Dr. Bennet, Dr. Waller Lewis, Rev. R. S. Daniell, Dr. Barnes, and many others. • After the usual loyal and constitutional toasts, ‘ The Chairman proposed “ The Health of Dr. Hassall,”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28989995_0130.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
