ABSTRACT
Many committed their lives to painstaking work in trying to push for positive public health development, trying to make things better. People like this know with a profound and philosophical belief in themselves that what they are doing is right, in spite of what others may have said, or thought. For some people, their internal drive is overwhelmingly in favour of progress: it is precisely these people who are the pioneers in public health. Following a call for expressions of interest, numerous people made contact, some of whom regularly spoke at their local history societies or were involved in archives around public health activities. In a new public health arena, the likes of John Snow sought to bring a scientific dimension to understanding what made people ill, whilst John Simon in London and Dr William Henry Duncan and Thomas Fresh in Liverpool made real inroads in public health in the emerging metropolis and newly evolving administrations.
