This position also entailed acting as Police Surgeon to the City of Edinburgh and Advisor to the Crown.

From an early age he was encouraged by his father to pursue a career in Public Health.

and after taking a Master of Arts (MA) degree, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh qualifying MB CM in 1886.

This carried with it the role of Police Surgeon to the City and Advisor to the Crown in criminal proceedings.

The results, published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in March 1891, showed several clusters of the infection.

[3] In later life Harvey Littlejohn lived at 1 Atholl Crescent in the west end of Edinburgh .

(with Buchanan, Robert James McLean, Henry Aubrey Husband,) Forensic Medicine.