Nathan Raw

[1] Raw began his education at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and received his medical qualification (M.

[7] By 1889 he held the position of assistant medical officer for the Kent County Asylum and was elected as a member to the Medico-Psychological Association.

[7] In 1897 Raw was one of 58 applicants for the role of medical superintendent at the recently refurbished Mill Road Infirmary and he was appointed to the position in August 1897.

[10] Mill Road Infirmary was the largest Poor Law hospital in Liverpool and the recipient of the West Derby Union patients.

[14] Raw was most famous for his study on tuberculosis and the tuberculin ‘R’ and a great deal of that expertise came due his position at Mill Road Infirmary.

[15] During his Mill Road years he continued to publish on epilepsy, infections and their treatment, gynaecology, aneurisms, arsenic poisonings and the epidemic that was going on in Liverpool and Manchester at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as one paper on mental disease.