When he returned to England, he brought back the Independent Order of Good Templars (IOGT), a temperance organization which he had joined in the US.

[2] Malins' 1895 poem, "The ambulance down in the Valley", is a possible reference to the "Upstream Parable", sometimes called the "River Story" which has been attributed in the 1930s to political activist Saul Alinksy, medical sociologist Irving Zola, and John McKinlay in 1975 … (Eliot, L.B.

“The Venerable Upstream Parable Helps In These Trying Times, And Applies To The Future Of AI Self-Driving Cars”.

Reference to the "Upstream Parable", sometimes called the "River Story", has been attributed in the 1930s to political activist Saul Alinksy, medical sociologist Irving Zola, and in 1975 to John McKinlay…".

The poem is quoted in numerous modern day resources (e.g., Primary health care in Australia: A nursing and midwifery consensus view[4]).