Edward Ballard (15 April 1820 – 19 January 1897) was a 19th-century English physician, best known for his reports on the unsanitary conditions in which most ofVictorian England lived.
Ballard was born inIslington,Middlesex, the sonEdward George Ballard, the English writer, and Mary Ann Shadgett. He was educated at Islington Proprietary School and atUniversity College, London, from which he received his doctorate in medicine in 1843.[1]
Together withAlfred Baring Garrod, Ballard co-authoredElements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1845, the first medical textbook on what is now known asclinical pharmacology. Admitted a member of theRoyal College of Physicians andFellow of the Royal Society, Ballard is best known for his work as the Medical Officer for Health at the Local Government Board, a position in which he wrote numerous reports on the unsanitary conditions in which the masses of Victorian England lived.[1]
Ballard married, firstly, in 1846 Julia Hannah, daughter of Charles Huggons of London, by whom he had two sons and one daughter, and secondly, Emmeline, daughter of John Halse of London, by whom he had a son and a daughter, Robert and Alice.[1]
Ballard published several books and reports during his career. The most important of these are:
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