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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.
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.
Oct 1, 2007 · William Farr's contributions to epidemiology were both broad and deep. His creation of a vital statistics system, role in the formation of the International Classification of Diseases, and prominence in resolving the mode of communication of cholera in Victorian England were each seminal to modern epidemiology.
- DE Lilienfeld
- 2007
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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.
Among them was William Farr. Farr can be properly assigned a major role as a founder of epidemiology in its modern analytic form. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was to institute and write the Annual Reports of the Registrar General , the first appearing in 1839.
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...
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.
