Alfred John Carpenter
1825–92
Physician and advocate of sewage farming. Trained at St Thomas’s Hospital, London; entered medical practice in Croydon in 1852. MD, London, 1859. Member of the Croydon Board of Health, 1859–79, and founder and manager of one of the earliest municipal sewage farms, in Beddington. Lectured on public health at St Thomas’s, 1875–84.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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