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RefNoEC/1882/07
Previous numbersCert XI, 28
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TitleBuchanan, Sir George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationGeorge Buchanan
Distinguished as a Physician in the Public Service, and as having in that capacity made a long succession of investigations in questions concerning the Public Health, (especially with regard to the determining circumstances of various local excesses of disease), and as the Author of Reports which have from nearly twenty years ago, formed part of the Annual Reports of the Medical Department of the Privy Council and (more recently) of the Local Government Board, among the most important being (1) Inquiries relating to the influence of the Cotton Famine on the Public Health, 1865 (2) Inquiries relating to outbreaks of Enteric Fever: Guildford, 1867; Caius College, Cambridge, 1873; Croydon, 1875 (3) Inquiry relating to an outbreak of Yellow Fever at Swansea 1865 (4) Inquiries regarding the effects produced on the healthiness of certain towns by improved works of Drainage and Water Supply, 1866 (5) Inquiries as to the relation of Geological Structure to the local prevalence of Pulmonary Consumption 1867 (6) Inquiry as to the influence of Contagion through milk in determining a certain outbreak of Scarletina, 1875.
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge: John Simon; John Marshall; J Burton Sanderson; John Tyndall; W Farr; Jas Risdon Bennett; William Jenner; J Russell Reynolds; H W Bristow; E Klein; A B Garrod; H Charlton Bastien; Frederick Guthrie; T Graham Balfour; Geo Burrows; J Fayrer; James Paget; F De Chaumont
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Buchanan, Sir George: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6644Buchanan; Sir; George (1831 - 1895)1831 - 1895
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