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Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn MD LLD FRCSE (8 May 1826 – 30 September 1914) was a Scottish surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official. He served for 46 years as Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health, during which time he brought about significant improvements in the living conditions and the health of the city's inhabitants.
Oct 11, 2022 · Henry Duncan Littlejohn was born at 33 Leith Street, Edinburgh, on 8th May 1826, the seventh of nine children to Thomas Littlejohn, master baker and burgess of Edinburgh, and his...
Littlejohn, Sir Henry Duncan ( 1826–1914 ), medical officer of health and expert in forensic medicine, was born on 8 May 1826 at the family home, 33 Leith Street, Edinburgh, the seventh of the nine children of Thomas Littlejohn, master baker and a burgess of Edinburgh, and his wife, Isabella Duncan, daughter of Henry Duncan, merchant of ...
As Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health, Henry Littlejohn did much to educate the city's population in matters of personal and public hygiene. During his term, the death rate dropped dramatically and cases of smallpox and typhus became a rarity.
Mar 28, 2024 · Henry Littlejohn’s Report of the Sanitary Condition of the City of Edinburgh (1865), was shocking and revealing, but it led to a transformation of our sanitary conditions in Edinburgh and Scotland, with doctors being required to report cases of early disease on their districts, and the establishment of Fever Hospitals to quarantine ...
1862, Henry Littlejohn was appointed the first (part-time) Medical Officer of Health for Edinburgh. The Lindsay Act contained provisions for lighting, cleaning, paving, drainage and supplying water to towns, and the promoting generally of public health. Littlejohn’s staff consisted of two policemen from the local force who
Hector Gavin (qv) achieved this, but the most famous was Henry Littlejohn, whose appointment as the first Medical Officer of Health for Edinburgh was the first appointment of its kind in Scotland. He pioneered compulsory notification of infectious disease in Edinburgh leading to the introduction of such notification throughout Great Britain.
