Sir James Crichton Browne This is Me

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1. 1. Environmental Health Journal | March 2005

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   Brains and Drains - Sir James Crichton Browne Environmental Health Journal | March 2005
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   Sir James Crichton Browne was the longest serving president in the CIEH's history.
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   Sir James Crichton Browne, was a surprising choice to be made the fifth president of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association, the forerunner of the CIEH, in 1901. Although he espoused many public health causes, ranging from nutrition and sanitation to the risk of balloon travel spreading disease, he was primarily a medical man, more psychiatrist than sanitary inspector. An early neurologist, he started his career in the world of the lunatic asylum. He first worked at the Scottish asylum, Crichton Royal, near Dumfries, where his father was medical superintendent. Then he moved to Wakefield, the vast English pauper asylum. Here he spent 10 years as medical superintendent where poor drainage and water quality plagued his years at the asylum, increasing mortality and the spread of disease.

2. 2. Environmental Health Journal - march 2005

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   Take the July 1902, issue of the journal, the year Sir James Crichton Browne made his inaugural speech. He was to become the longest ever serving president of the CIEH and is the subject of one of our features. In this 1902 issue, an article appears about the spread of bubonic plague in Cape Town and how plans are in place to set up the Sanitary Inspectors' Association in South Africa.
   
   The old adage states that history repeats itself. If Sir James Crichton Browne were alive today he would agree. He was concerned in the 1900s about the possible spread of disease from balloon travel, the adulteration of sweets with chloroform, "brutish carelessness" caused by the ravages of alcohol, the spread of TB, sexually transmitted diseases, overcrowded housing and the importance of nutrition. Sound familiar?
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   Sir James Crichton Browne was a tireless campaigner on public health issues.