A Thousand Families in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Sir James Spence, whose recent death was such a loss to British medicine, has many memorials in the form of his contributions to knowledge; a significant memorial is that of this account of the "thousand family survey" which he inaugurated and inspired. He guided the book, which is the story of the survey, almost to the point of publication and so, as the authors state, it is a memorial "largely of his own fashioning."