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Association, for the formation of a Nurse Training Institu- 

 tion in Manchester and Salford, and he was the means of 

 obtaining from Miss Nightingale six of her best-trained 

 nurses, who were distributed amongst the hospitals of the 

 town, and who at once commenced the training of proba- 

 tioners for the Institution. On Mr. Murray Gladstone's 

 death. Dr. Morgan became Chairman of the Nurse Training 

 Institution, and retained the post for several years. As an 

 outcome of his hospital and sanitary labours, Dr. Morgan 

 published papers on " The Danger of Deterioration of 

 Race," and " Town-Life amongst the Poorest," in which he 

 called attention to the signs of lowered vitality and physical 

 weakness in our town populations, and proved the fact that 

 the constant inflow of fresh country lives into our large 

 towns entirely vitiates all conclusions from their rates of 

 mortality. In 1867 he was elected Hon. Physician to the 

 Manchester Royal Infirmary, and in 1873 he became Pro- 

 fessor of Medicine at the Owens College. In 1875 Dr. 

 Morgan wrote a paper on " Medical Education at the 

 Universities," and in 1881 he delivered an address, entitled 

 " The Victoria University — why are there no Medical 

 Degrees?" and there can be no doubt that these essays 

 contributed largely to the early recognition of the Medical 

 Faculty of the Victoria University, and to the speedy 

 granting of the power of conferring Medical Degrees, 

 which had been at first withheld. Dr. Morgan contri- 

 buted several papers on medical subjects to the Lancet 

 and British Medical Journal, but his chief work was the 

 " Critical inquiry into the After Health of the men 

 who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat races, 

 from 1829 to 1869, based on the personal experience 

 of the rowers themselves." This book was entitled "Uni- 

 versity Oars," and was published by Macmillan. It was 

 the result of an enormous amount of labour of correspon- 

 dence, and it tended to show that hard athletic exercises 

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