Work at Local Government Board. Public Health. Fighting Small Pox and Ophthalmia

“ It is difficult to exaggerate the public services of inspectors under one or another department to the social reforms of the Victorian age. Men of courage, independence and ability, such as Leonard Horner, Hugh Tremenheere, and John Bridges, were able to strike at grave abuses with more effect than politicians or journalists.”—(Hammond, Life of Lord Shaftesbury, p. 25.)