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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 ...
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 pharmacist in 1833.
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...
Nov 6, 2019 · 184 Citations. 656 Altmetric. Metrics. Abstract. With rapidly changing ecology, urbanization, climate change, increased travel and fragile public health systems, epidemics will become more...
William Farr (1807-1883) helped lay the foundations of modern vital statistics and epidemiology. His bestknown legacy is the life table, with its familiar summing-up statistic, the expectation of life at birth—widely and not always wisely used as a measure of the health of different populations.
William Farr, chief statistician to the General Register Office for more than 40 years, was the most significant medical epidemiologist and statistician of the Victorian era.
