Newlands was one of a celebrated trio of pioneering officers appointed under a private Act by the committee of Liverpool Health of Towns Association; the others being William Henry Duncan, Medical Officer for Health, and Thomas Fresh, Inspector of Nuisances.
Newlands was one of a celebrated trio of pioneering officers appointed under an 1846 private Act (Liverpool Sanitary Act) by the Liverpool committee of the Health of Towns Association (formed a year earlier in April 1845). The others being William Henry Duncan, Medical Officer for Health, and Thomas Fresh, Inspector of Nuisances.