But this quiet country life was not to be his always. It was decreed that he should come up to London and enter into its teeming life, to think, and write, and labour, until he had done his part towards lessening its mass of misery. Footnote 1: Caroline Southwood Smith, married, 1835, Mr James Hill. _Children of this marriage_: Miranda Hill, Gertrude Hill (Mrs Charles Lewes), Octavia Hill, Emily S. Hill (Mrs C. E. Maurice), Florence Hill. Footnote 2: Emily Southwood Smith, born 1810, died 1872. Footnote 3: The Hon. D. G. Halliburton. CHAPTER II. FIRST YEARS IN LONDON-DAWN OF THE SCIENCE OF MODERN HYGIENE, 1820-1834. On first arriving in London in 1820, my grandfather, who whilst still at Yeovil had married for the second time (Mary, daughter of Mr John Christie of Hackney),[4] settled in Trinity Square, near the Tower. He soon formed a considerable private practice, and was appointed physician to the London Fever Hospital, and he was thus led to give very special attention to the subject of fever. He also held the offices of physician to the Eastern Dispensary and to the Jews' Hospital, situated in the very heart of Whitechapel. And while his experience in the wards of the fever hospital taught him by what means that disease can most frequently be _cured_, his acquaintance with it in the homes of his East-end patients taught him more--how it might be _prevented_. Almost the first writings bearing on what came to be afterwards called the "Sanitary Question" are to be found in the pages of the 'Westminster Review.' In the two first numbers of that Review, published in the year 1825, there appeared some articles on "Contagion and Sanitary Laws." These articles, published anonymously, were written by Dr Southwood Smith. It must be noted that the word "sanitary" had not then the meaning it has in these days: sanitary science was unknown, and the words "Sanitary Laws" had a no wider signification than that of the regulations of a quarantine code. But from that time these words acquired a new meaning.