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HART, ERNEST ABRAHAM (1835–1898)

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HART, ERNEST See also:ABRAHAM (1835–1898) , See also:English medical journalist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 26th of See also:June 1835, the son of a Jewish dentist. He was educated at the See also:City of London school, and became a student at St See also:George's See also:hospital. In 1856 he became a member of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons, making a specialty of diseases of the See also:eye. He was appointed ophthalmic surgeon at St See also:Mary's hospital at the See also:age of 28, and occupied various other posts, introducing into ophthalmic practice some modifications since widely adopted. His name, too, is associated with a method of treating popliteal aneurism, which he was the first to use in See also:Great See also:Britain. His real See also:life-See also:work, however, was as a medical journalist, beginning with the See also:Lancet in 1857. He was appointed editor of the See also:British Medical See also:Journal in 1866. He took a leading See also:part in the exposures which led to the inquiry into the See also:state of London workhouse infirmaries, and to the reform of the treatment of sick poor throughout See also:England, and the See also:Infant Life See also:Protection See also:Act of 1872, aimed at the evils of baby-farming, was largely due to his efforts. The See also:record of his public work covers nearly the whole See also:field of sanitary legislation during the last thrity years of his life. He had a See also:hand in the amendments of the Public See also:Health and of the Medical Acts; in the See also:measures See also:relating to notification of infectious disease, to See also:vaccination, to the See also:registration of plumbers; in the improvement of factory legislation; in the remedy of legitimate grievances of See also:Army and See also:Navy medical See also:officers; in-the removal of abuses and deficiencies in crowded barrack See also:schools; in denouncing the sanitary shortcomings of the See also:Indian See also:government, particularly in regard to the prevention of See also:cholera. His work on behalf of the British Medical Association is shown by the increase from 2000 to 19,000 in the number of members, and the growth of the British Medical Journal from 20 to 64 pages, during his editor-See also:ship. From 1872 to 1897 he was chairman of the Association's See also:Parliamentary See also:Bill See also:Committee.

He died on the 7th of January_ 1898. For his second wife he married Alice See also:

Marion See also:Rowland, who had herself studied See also:medicine in London and See also:Paris, and was no less interested than her See also:husband in philanthropic reform. She was most active in her encouragement of Irish cottage See also:industries, and was the founder of the See also:Donegal See also:Industrial Fund.

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