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Irving A. (Irving Allison) Watson
1849–1918
Best known as a New Hampshire physician and public health leader, he also wrote practical works on sanitation and edited a major biographical volume on the medical profession. His career joined medicine, civic service, and medical publishing in a very 19th-century way.
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Water pollution—Wells
by Irving A. (Irving Allison) Watson
About the author
Born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, in 1849, Irving Allison Watson trained as a physician and built much of his career in New Hampshire. Contemporary and library records connect him with public health work as well as medical writing and editing, and he is frequently identified as Dr. Irving A. Watson.
Watson is especially associated with late-19th-century public health and sanitary reform. Cataloged works under his name include Sanitary Suggestions, Common Law Citations Relating to Nuisances, and Water Pollution—Wells, showing a strong interest in health policy, hygiene, and the practical problems of safe water and community health.
He is also remembered as the editor and compiler of Physicians and Surgeons of America, a substantial biographical reference work on the regular medical profession. He died in 1918, leaving behind a record that reflects both his medical practice and his wider efforts to improve public health.