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Thomas Southwood Smith (1788 1861) was a minister, physician and
social reformer, who considerably improved the health of the poor
by linking sanitation with epidemics. A utilitarian, and friend of
Jeremy Bentham, his arguments in The Use of the Dead to the Living
(1827) helped lead to the Anatomy Act of 1832 which allowed corpses
from workhouses to be sold to medical schools, and so ended the
market for grave-robbers while improving medical education.
Although the fame of his granddaughter, Octavia Hill, has eclipsed
his own reputation, Southwood Smith was an important figure in his
day, whose work initiated many public health reforms. He served on
the royal commission on children's employment, and was medical
representative on the General Board of Health to deal with the
cholera epidemic of 1848. This biography, written by his
granddaughter Gertrude, who was G. H. Lewes' daughter-in-law, was
published in 1898.
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