Background
DOWNES, Arthur Henry was born in 1851. Son of late T. R. C. Downes, Milford Lodge and Heath House, Shropshire.
DOWNES, Arthur Henry was born in 1851. Son of late T. R. C. Downes, Milford Lodge and Heath House, Shropshire.
Shrewsbury; University College (gold medal in medicine and Fellowes clinical gold medal), London. Aberdeen University. Bachelor of Medicine, Master in Surgery (highest honours), 1873, Doctor of Medicine, 1875, Aberdeen. Diploma in Public Health, Cambridge, 1877.
Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Shropshire Combined Districts. Medical Officer of Health, Essex Combined Districts. Medical Inspector, Local Government Board, 1889.
Member of Royal Commission on Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Also of a number of Departmental Committees, including those on Workhouse Dietaries, Nursing in Workhouses, Workhouse Accounts, Feeding of Prisoners, Vagrancy, Mid wives Act, etc. Representative of Local Government Board on Social Welfare Association for London. Cartulary-register 1910; Senior Medical Inspector for Poor Law, Local Government Board, Whitehall, South-west.
Club: St. Stephen’s.