“ RAWLINSON, SIR ROBERT (1810–1898) , English engineer and sanitarian, was born at Bristol on the 28th of February 1810. His father was apmason and builder at Chorley, Lancashire, and he himself began his engineering education by working in a stonemason’s yard. In 1831 he obtained employment under Jesse Hartley in the engineer’s office at the Liverpool docks, and for four years from 1836 he was engaged under Robert Stephenson as assistant resident engineer for the Blisworth section of what is now the London & North-Western main line from London to the North. ”

“ The commission reached Constantinople in March, and, by insisting on what now seem the most obvious precautions, succeeded within a few weeks’ in reducing the death-rate in the Levantine hospitals from 42 to 21/4%. ”