Dr William Johnston (1846-1900) of Leicester--an unknown Victorian general practitioner

The famous names of medical history are well documented, but facts about the little-known have to be sought after. The author was curious about the founder member of the practice he works in. By a painstaking search of local and national records, he learned that his Dr Johnston was an Irishman who practised in Derbyshire before arriving in Leicester in 1876. He was much concerned about the zymotic diseases, and his greatest achievement was in persuading the council to pass a Notification of Infectious Diseases bye-law in 1879, making Leicester one of the first towns to have such a regulation.