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.
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. These were so relevant that they were the foundation of a separate university department with a new professor of public health at its head.