Timothy Newell, M.D. The Sanitary, Physical, and Educational Advantages in Interior Open Areas in Large Cities. A Paper read Before the American Public Health Association. Boston, Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 1883. 9×6 inches, 11pp. Original wrappers. Provenance: Brown University, and then the Library of Congress. Small “LC” perforated stamps on title and last page; LC surplus/duplicate rubber stamp on rear wrapper. Good copy. NO COPIES located in WorldCat/OCLC $150
On the efficacy and use of park and open spaces in cities for the good of the health of the population.
Referred to as “a valuable paper” in the Report of a Conference on Charities and on Other Subjects Pertaining to the Prevention of Suffering, Pauperism, and Crime, published by the Charity Organization Society of Baltimore City, 1887.
Among [Newell's] published papers are: "What Changes Does Physiology Demand in our School System ?" read before the American Social Science Association at Saratoga, in 1876, and published in the Sanitarian; as chairman of a committee on school hygiene, of the Rhode Island Medical Society in 1875, he made a full report with a series of resolutions, which were copied into several sani- tary journals and commented; "Interior Open Spaces in Large Cities," read before the American Public Health Association. He is also the author of several pamphlets published annually for ten years by the Public Parks Association, and is author of the "Cyclopedia of Domestic Medicine and Hygiene," Bradley & Woodruff, Boston, 1890, a volume of 700 pages and 200 illustrations.”
--Physicians and Surgeons of America (Illustrated), a Collection of Biographical Sketches of the
Regular Medical Profession. 1896.