User:Konsumtion/Henry Julian Hunter
Henry Julian Hunter | |
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| Born | January 1, 1823 |
| Died | July 11, 1908 (aged 85) Oldfield Park, Bath, Somerset |
| Education | King's College London, first at the school and afterwards at the Hospital,
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| Known for | Inquiry on the state of the Dwellings of Rural Labourers,[1] |
| Notable work | Excessive mortality of Infants in some rural districts of England', Sixth Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council for 1863 (BPP 1864/XXVIII), appendix 14, pp. 454-62 |
| Father | Joseph Hunter (antiquarian) |
Henry Julian Hunter was an English Physician, surgeon and Epidemiologist.
Biography
[edit]- In 1846 he went to Sheffield, the home of his family, as a house surgeon at the Sheffield Public Dispensary, which is now the Sheffield Royal Hospital.
- In 1848, here he became full surgeon.
- In 1850 he was a lecturer in the Old Medical School in anatomy at the University of Sheffield. materia medica (1850 and 1853) and surgery (1852).
He practised in Sheffield for a decade or more and retained his connection with the city as a consultant on the staff of the hospital unitl 1890.
- In 1855 and 1857 he was listed in the Medical Directory of the State of New York, where he was an honorary member of the New York Medical Society (nominated in 1856 and elected 5th February, 1857).
- He appears to have left Sheffield finally in 1861 when ' with his wife he spent some years in travelling about Europe and in visiting various parts of England.
- This period of wandering probably represents his work for the Privy Council over a period of about nine years, at first part-time and later (1866-1870) whole-time — presumably the outcome of his personal friendship with John Simon (pathologist), begun at King's College Hospital in student days and mentioned in Simon's Personal Recollections. [2]
- Hunter's surveys of infant mortality and housing were pioneering efforts.
- The last two lengthy reports on housing, comprising a comprehensive survey of housing conditions conducted in all the counties and many of the large towns in England and Wales, provide an illuminating account of living conditions of the working classes at that time.
- Hunter also carried out a number of investigations into local outbreaks of disease, chiefly typhoid, and other sanitary inquiries.
The obituaries in The BMJ[3] and The Lancet refer to his retirement on account of health in 1875; this infers that he continued to be employed by the Local Government Board after the transfer of functions in 1871.
- The time from 1870 to 1878 he spent abroad.
- From 1879 to 1895 he lived at Penzance.
- In 1893 he was retired to Bath, there to spend the rest of his days.
- Where he was interested himself in the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, of which his father was one of the founders, and reading various papers on literary and antiquarian subjects.
Hunter died at Park View Lodge, Oldfield, Bath, on 13th July, 1908, in his 85th year; he left his property, valued at between £15,000 and £20,000, to the University of Sheffield and the money was used to endow the Chair of Pathology. The BMJ records this note from a former pupil : — I was one of the last pupils under the old apprentice system, and was articled to Dr. Hunter when only 16. Our home life was very simple; his recreations consisted in reading, gardening, and chess,[4]
The labourer himself is called a “bondsman.” The relationship here set up also shows how individual consumption by the labourer becomes consumption on behalf of capital—or productive consumption—from quite a new point of view: “It is curious to observe that the very dung of the hind and bondsman is the perquisite of the calculating lord ... and the lord will allow no privy but his own to exist in the neighbourhood, and will rather give a bit of manure here and there for a garden than bate any part of his seigneurial right."
— Henry Julian Hunter[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Henry Julian Hunter, Inquiry on the state of the Dwellings of Rural Labourers, p. 188
- ^ Virginia Berridge, Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, [1]
- ^ The BMJ, 1908, p. 294[2]
- ^ Colin Fraser Brockington, Public health in the nineteenth century, 1965, p.255p. 256, Rudolf Virchow, August Hirsch, Carl Posner, Jahresbericht über die Leistungen und Fortschritte in der gesammten Medizin, 1909, p. 411
- ^ Karl Marx: Capital. A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, London 1887, p. 503
Category: 1823 births Category: 1908 deaths Category:People from Bath, Somerset Category:Alumni of King's College London Category:English surgeons