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Sir George Newman
(1870-1948), Scientist and lecturer; first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of HealthSitter in 3 portraits
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Mark Frankel
26 May 2018, 17:10
Sir George Newman GBE, KCB (23 October 1870 – 26 May 1948) was an English public health physician, Quaker, the first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England, and wrote a seminal treatise on the social problems causing infant mortality.