At Edinburgh University, and perhaps under the influence of the writer Charles Kingsley, Armstrong inaugurated courses of lectures on sanitary engineering for the benefit of medical students studying public health, which developed into a separate university department with a professor of public health at its head.
Armstrong inaugurated courses of lectures on sanitary engineering for the benefit of medical students studying public health. This was at Edinburgh University, and perhaps under the influence of the writer Charles Kingsley. Public health developed into a separate university department with a professor of public health at its head.