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Timeline of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene[4]
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| Year |
event
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| 1886 |
Formation of the Society of Medical Men Qualified in Sanitary Science, name quickly changed to The Public Health Medical Society
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| 1891 |
International Congress on Hygiene in London
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| 1892 |
Society Incorporated as British Institute of Public Health
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| 1895 |
Harben Gold Medal and lectureship inaugurated
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| 1897 |
Queen Victoria becomes patron and issues letters patent. Name changed to Royal Institute of Public Health
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| 1901 |
King Edward VII becomes patron
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| 1903 |
Institute of Hygiene Limited registered as a company "for the advancement of knowledge of hygiene (especially personal and domestic) and for establishing a museum of hygiene to exhibit articles of merit"
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| 1904 |
Report of RIPH Committee on Bacterial Examination of Water
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| 1905 |
RIPH laboratories open for chemical, bacterial, and pathological specimens
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| 1907 |
Midlands Counties Branch becomes the first IH provincial branch
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| 1908 |
Further provincial IH branches approved
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| 1909 |
IH makes public appeal to help finance rapid development
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| 1910 |
King George V becomes RIPH patron
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| 1912 |
RIPH launch appeal for £3000 for building work. W. H. Lever donates £600 for the foundation of a museum
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| 1913 |
RIPH Lever Museum inaugurated
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| 1914 |
Queen visits RIPH
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| 1915 |
IH involved in the design of respirators for use of public in the event of a gas attack
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| 1916 |
Secretary of RIPH and four doctors are killed in action
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| 1917 |
IH offer their services to new Ministry of Food (offer rejected)
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| 1918 |
January–February IH Food Saving exhibition
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| 1920 |
IH replaces monthly Periodical Letter to Members with Health Notes
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| 1923 |
IH Membership Badge instituted
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| 1924 |
IH Journal replaces Health Notes
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| 1925 |
IH new headquarters at 28 Portland Place opened by Princess Mary on 5 June
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| 1926 |
Leicester Personal Health Association becomes affiliated with IH
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| 1927 |
Department of State Medicine of RIPH set up to train London medical students in forensic medicine and toxicology
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| 1928 |
IH becomes an associate member of the Central Council for Health Education
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| 1929 |
IH granted Royal Charter of Incorporation
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| 1930 |
RIPH public lectures on birth control
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| 1931 |
RIPH public lectures on Health of the Citizen
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| 1932 |
RIPH begin negotiations with Royal Sanitary Institute, and later the Institute of Hygiene and the British Social Hygiene Council, for amalgamation
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| 1933 |
Opening of 23 Queen Square as new RIPH headquarters
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| 1934 |
RIPH negotiations with Royal Sanitary Institute terminated
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| 1935 |
Negotiations between RIPH and IH reopened. Draft agreement for amalgamation reached
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| 1937 |
IH supplemental charter granted by Privy Council
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| 1938 |
Journals combined
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| 1940 |
Exhibition and lectures on Food and Fitness
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| 1947 |
First Bengue Memorial Award lecture
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| 1948 |
RIPHH publishes History of State medicine in England by Sir A. Macnalty
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| 1949 |
Provincial health lectures start at Leicester
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| 1951 |
Queen Elizabeth II becomes patron
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| 1954 |
Abortive discussions on amalgamation with Royal Sanitary Institute
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| 1958 |
Courses on Food Hygiene and the Handling of Food introduced
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| 1962 |
Closure of Hygiene Museum
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| 1977 |
Closure of laboratories
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