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Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn MD LLD FRCSE (8 May 1826 – 30 September 1914) was a Scottish surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official. He served for 46 years as Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health, during which time he brought about significant improvements in the living conditions and the health of the city's ...
11 de oct. de 2022 · Our Records: Sir Henry Littlejohn (1826-1914), medical officer of health and expert in forensic medicine | ScotlandsPeople. 11th October 2022. Henry Duncan Littlejohn was born at 33 Leith...
7 de abr. de 2014 · But as Paul Laxton, co-author along with Richard Rodger of a recently published book on 19th century public health in Edinburgh has discovered, the copy of Dr Henry Littlejohn’s Report of the Sanitary Condition of the City of Edinburgh in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow library is undoubtedly a rare book ...
14 de may. de 2024 · In 1862, Henry Littlejohn was appointed to the newly created position of Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for Edinburgh. Three years later, he published a Report on the Sanitary Condition of Scotland’s capital city, then home to more than 170,000 people.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Littlejohn, Sir Henry Duncan ( 1826–1914 ), medical officer of health and expert in forensic medicine, was born on 8 May 1826 at the family home, 33 Leith Street, Edinburgh, the seventh of the nine children of Thomas Littlejohn, master baker and a burgess of Edinburgh, and his wife, Isabella Duncan ...
15 de dic. de 2014 · Who was Henry Littlejohn? An unemotional man with a razor-sharp medico-legal mind, an exceptionally talented epidemiologist, he was author of numerous articles on sanitary science and socio-medical issues in the British Medical Journal, the Lancet and Public Health .
About this artwork. As Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health, Henry Littlejohn did much to educate the city's population in matters of personal and public hygiene. During his term, the death rate dropped dramatically and cases of smallpox and typhus became a rarity. A Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, he was also ...
