John Milson Rhodes
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John Milson Rhodes (1847 – 25 September 1909) was an English general practitioner in the suburb of Didsbury, Manchester, UK. He was noted as a pioneer of social reform.
He was born at Broughton, Salford in 1847 and studied medicine in Glasgow and at Owen's College, Manchester. He was a member of the Chorlton Board of Guardians from 1882 and involved with the workhouse which later became Withington Hospital.[1] He helped to set up the Styal Cottage Homes. He established the Northern Workhouse Nursing Association and the Chorlton workhouse became a pioneer of trained nursing, held out by Florence Nightingale as an example.
He established the Langho Colony for Epileptics in 1904 and was involved with the David Lewis Epileptics Colony.[2]
