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3 days ago · 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.
Biographies. External links. William Farr CB (30 November 1807 – 14 April 1883) was a British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics . Early life. William Farr was born in Kenley, Shropshire, to poor parents. He was effectively adopted by a local squire, Joseph Pryce, when Farr and his family moved to Dorrington.
Oct 1, 2007 · DE Lilienfeld, Celebration: William Farr (1807–1883)—an appreciation on the 200th anniversary of his birth, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2007, Pages 985–987, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dym132
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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 ...
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Abstract. This chapter focuses on William Farr. In the latter half of the 19th century, both the concept of environment and the numerical approach to the understanding of related public health problems were firmly entrenched. Yet for much of the century, most British epidemiologists and many elsewhere were guided largely by Sydenham's theory of ...
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...
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 ...
