Joining forces with Chadwick he became, in effect, Medical Adviser to the ...

Joining forces with Chadwick he became, in effect, Medical Adviser to the Poor Law Commission.

His junior, Simon, a cultivated surgeon of French descent, a connoisseur and the mate of Ruskin, covered in his official life the development of the Board of Health into the Local Government Board, of which he was the first medical officer.

In the careers of men like these, or of Arthur Hassall, who took the adulteration of food for his province, we see the impact of the educated intelligence on the amorphous, greedy fabric of the new civilization, and I know nothing which brings the epic quality of the early Victorian warfare against barbarism into such vivid relief as the reports, eloquent, impassioned, and precise, which from 1848 onwards Simon addressed to the Company of the City of London. THE thirty years from Waterloo have the unity and, at times, the intensity of a great drama.

Castlereagh and Canning adjusted our insular relations to the Old World and the New.