The Making of Chester’s Smallpox Physician: An Exploration of Dr John Haygarth’s Early Life in the Yorkshire Dales
Chester Town Hall Northgate Street, ChesterJohn Haygarth (1740-1827) founded Chester Smallpox Society in 1788 to prevent and control the disease. Regarded as an outstanding and visionary physician who significantly contributed to the foundations of public health, his early life in a remote Yorkshire Dales village is equally fascinating and not as well known to the public.