Later Life
After his retirement from active consultative work he continued to take great interest in the question of leprosy. In one of his few scientific errors, he was firmly convinced that there was a link between getting leprosy and eating salted or rotted fish, even after the pathogenic agent, Mycobacterium leprae was discovered in 1873.
He was the founder of Haslemere Educational Museum
He died on 23 June 1913, in Haslemere, Surrey. He had married Jane Pynsent West in 1856; they had six sons and four daughters.
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