POVERTY, EVOLUTION, AND CHARACTER

During his years in Brighton Newsholme had risen to prominence in his profession. He had developed a reputation as an active and able administrator. In 1907 Edward Cox Seaton, Medical Officer of Health for Surrey County Council and lecturer at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, described the work of Brighton's Health Department in glowing terms and called the Brighton system a model for other local authorities to emulate. He emphasized especially Brighton's achievement in housing, its success in establishing an effective, comprehensive, tuberculosis program, and the care and economy in administration. Newsholme had proven to be a prolific writer as well as a successful administrator. By the time he left Brighton, he had published six books and at least four later editions of these, some ninety articles and chapters, two dozen annual reports, and numerous quarterly and occasional reports. His works were distinguished for their mastery of epidemiology, and he was without question one of the nation's leaders in the field.