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Duncan of Liverpool: Britain's first Medical Officer
1Buckinghamshire Business School, Newland Park, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire HP8 4AD, UK. shalli01@bcuc.ac.uk
Journal of Medical Biography
|July 19, 2003
Abstract:
William Henry Duncan (1805-1863) was born in Liverpool, qualified in Edinburgh, then moved back to Liverpool to work in general practice. He became physician to the Liverpool Infirmary and began to campaign for improvements to the appalling living conditions of his patients. He was appointed Liverpool's Medical Officer of Health on 1 January 1847 - Britain's first.