William Newman (29 August 1833 – 3 December 1903) was an English surgeon who worked at the Stamford and Rutland Infirmary (now the Stamford and Rutland Hospital) for 40 years and had significant input into the design of the Infirmary's fever wards in the late 1870s.
[1][2] He pioneered sanitation[1] and published several works on surgery and public health following outbreaks of typhoid and scarlet fever in Stamford between 1868 and 1870.
[2][3] Newman's publication History of Stamford, Rutland and general infirmary outlined the design and construction of the new fever wards.
[3] In 1876 he and Browning led the Infirmary's building committee producing plans for three new fever wards to be built as part of the Infirmary and not as separate hospitals; each block contained a square-shaped five-bed ward with beds around the walls.
[3] Other design features credited to Newman included bathrooms and toilets opening off cross-ventilated lobbies, damp-proof courses, cellars, hot-air heating and ventilation, glazed brick interior walls and the use of glazed tile pictures.