Sir George Newman GBE, KCB (October 23, 1870, Leominster, Herefordshire - May 26, 1948) was an English public health physician, Quaker, the first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England, and wrote a seminal treatise on the social problems causing infant mortality.
George Newman was educated at Sidcot School in North Somerset (1881–1885) and then at the...