Edward Ballard

For other people named Edward Ballard, see Edward Ballard (disambiguation).

Edward Ballard (1820–1897) was a 19th century English physician, best known for his reports on the unsanitary conditions in which most of Victorian England lived.

Ballard was born on 15 April 1820 in Islington, Middlesex, the son Edward George Ballard, the English writer, and Mary Ann Shadgett. He was educated at Islington Proprietary School and at University College, London, from which he received his doctorate in medicine in 1843.

Together with Alfred Baring Garrod, Ballard co-authored Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1845, the first medical textbook on what is now known as clinical pharmacology. Admitted a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Fellow 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.

In 1846, Ballard married Julia Hannah Huggons. They had three sons and two daughters. He died 19 February 1897 at High Barnett, London.

Bibliography

Ballard published several books and reports during his career. The most important of these are:

• Ballard, Edward and Garrod, Alfred Baring. Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics with Additions and Alterations by R. Eglesfeld Griffith. 1846.
• Ballard, Edward. Report to the Local Government Board on the sanitary condition of Wolverhampton, 1874 {Wolverhampton Archives & Local Studies reference L628.}
• Ballard, Edward. Report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of enteric fever at Tolcarne Head, Newquay, Cornwall, and generally on the sanitary condition ... of the Urban Sanitary District of Newquay". 1880, printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O.
• Ballard, Edward. Report to the Local Government Board upon an epidemic outbreak of enteric fever in the village of Millbrook, in the Rural Sanitary District of St. German's, Cornwall. 1880, printed by George E Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O.
• Ballard, Edward. Report to the Local Government Board upon the Causation of the Annual Mortality from "Diarrhoea" Which is Observed Principally in the Summer Season of the Year, 1889, (draft only as Ballard died prior to finalising it.)

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