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RefNoEC/1890/15
Previous numbersCert XI, 189
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TitleThorne-Thorne, Sir Richard: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationAssistant Medical Officer to HM Local Government Board. Has made numerous original observations in regard to the spread of disease, and especially on an epidemic of typhoid fever, and its dissemination by water at Caterham; and Redhill. Author of 'The Use and Influence of Hospitals for Infectious Diseases' (Proc of the Internat Saint Conference at Rome); and of a large number of reports on Public Health to the Privy Council and Local Government Board. He was appointed along with Sir W G Hunter to represent Great Britain at the International Sanitary Conference of Rome 1885. Is distinguished for his acquaintance with Sanitary Science, as shown by his being President of the Epidemiological Society, Lecturer on public Health at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Examiner in Public Health to the University of Oxford, the University of London, and the English Conjoined Board.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge: T Pridgin Teale
From Personal Knowledge: John Tyndall; J Fayrer; George Buchanan; James Paget; Wm S Savory; William Jenner; J H Gladstone; Douglas Galton; W J Russell; T Lauder Brunton; John Simon; E Frankland
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Thorne-Thorne, Sir Richard: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1345Thorne-Thorne; Sir; Richard (1841 - 1899)1841 - 1899
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