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May 9, 2024 · William Farr was a British physician who pioneered the quantitative study of morbidity (disease incidence) and mortality (death), helping establish the field of medical statistics. Farr is considered to be a major figure in the history of epidemiology, having worked for almost 40 years analyzing.
FARR, WILLIAM. (1807–1883) William Farr, a physician by training, was the most prominent expert in vital statistics in Great Britain in the nineteenth century. After completing his medical studies in London and in Paris, where he became a disciple of Dr. Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis and his méthode numérique, Farr set up a practice as a ...
Farr did more than create a system of national statistics. During his 40-year incumbency, he greatly enhanced their value and their meaningful use across what was then the developed world. He derived denominators by ingenious resort to the antecedent decennial census.
Jan 1, 2017 · William Farr, born in Kenley, Shropshire on 30 November 1807, died in London on 14 April 1883, was a statistician in the General Register Office who had been appointed in 1840 as ‘compiler of abstracts’ and was two years later made Statistical...
Dec 30, 2014 · News. December 30, 2014. In a study of smallpox in the mid-1800s, pioneering British epidemiologist William Farr made the astonishing discovery that the rate and duration of the epidemic’s rise was mirrored in its decline. More than 150 years later, researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health have taken Farr’s Law out of retirement ...
Jun 1, 1975 · It reviews the writings and influence of William Farr from the perspective afforded by a century and more, and provides support for the claim that this remarkable man was “a founder, even the founder, of epidemiology in its modern form.”. © 1975 by The Johns Hopkins University.
William Farr, M.D., was educated under Dr. Doddridge, of Northampton; and having selected medicine as his profession, spent two years in its study at Aberdeen before visiting Edinburgh, where he took the degree of doctor of medicine in 1755 (D.M.I. de Usu Mathematicis et Philosophise Naturalis in Medicinæ Studio). Dr.
