LETHEBY

Henry . b. Plymouth 1816; L.S.A. 1837; M.B. London 1842; M.A. and Ph. D. of a German university; lecturer on chemistry and toxicology at London hospital; medical officer of health and analyst of food for city of London, Oct. 1855, resigned 1874; chief examiner of gas for metropolis under board of trade; F.L.S., F.C.S.; wrote many papers in The Lancet and other scientific periodicals; author of Reports on the sanitary condition of London 3 vols. 1856–7; Reports to the commi ioners of sewers 3 vols. 1856–58; On food, its varieties, composition, nutritive value, adulteration, etc. Cantor lectures 1870, 2 ed. 1872. d. 17 Su ex place, Regent’s park, London 28 March 1876. bur. High gate cemet. 1 April. Medical Pre and Circular , i 290–91, 306 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii 373, 374 (1876), portrait ; Graphic , xiii 366, 381 (1876), portrait .