· Born 1811 North Tawton, Devon
· Father: retired naval surgeon, general practitioner, North Tawton
· Faculté de Médicine de Paris, 1828-29, 1833-34 and 1836-37
· Edinburgh University, 1837-38, gold medallist
· Moved to Bristol 1841
· Lecturer to Bristol Medical School, 1842-55
· Physician to St Peter's Hospital, 1843-47
· Physician to Bristol Royal Infirmary 1847-62
· Malignant cholera: its mode of propagation and its prevention, 1849
· Director of Bristol Water Co., c. 1850
· Medical Reading Society, 1855-69
· Describes the contagious nature and prevention of Diphtheria, 1861; Anthrax, 1862;
Tuberculosis
*
, 1867: Scarlet Fever, 1869; also studied cattle plague and sheep smallpox
· Gave evidence to the Sanitary Commission, advocating establishment of a Public Health Service, 1871
· Elected FRS, 1871
· Typhoid fever: its nature, mode of spread and prevention, 1873
· Died 1880, hemiplegic for his last six years
The William Budd Health Centre in Bristol, one
of the
first to be provided under the National Health Service Act,
1946, was opened officially
on
September
16, 1952,
by the Minister of Health, Mr.
lain Macleod. There is a B
lue Plaque in his memory at 89 Park St. and a ward has been named after him at The Bristol Royal Infirmary.
