George Newman (doctor)

George Newman (doctor)

Sir George Newman GBE, KCB (23 October 1870, Leominster, Herefordshire - 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.

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