Victorian Social Medicine: The Ideas and Methods of William FarrMedizinische Statistik / Geschichte (19. Jh.) / England. |
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... medicine . This book is not a personal biography . In several sections , especially in Chapter One , I have merely summarized the major events of Farr's career and commented on what new material has come to light since the standard ...
... medicine . This book is not a personal biography . In several sections , especially in Chapter One , I have merely summarized the major events of Farr's career and commented on what new material has come to light since the standard ...
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... MEDICINE Of the events in William Farr's early life and training we have only the barest outline . ' He was born November 30 , 1807 , in Shropshire . First child of a farm laborer , he was , because of the family's extreme poverty ...
... MEDICINE Of the events in William Farr's early life and training we have only the barest outline . ' He was born November 30 , 1807 , in Shropshire . First child of a farm laborer , he was , because of the family's extreme poverty ...
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... medicine . It would silence cynics who claimed medicine could do nothing , and serve as a corrective to the claims of em- pirics and sectarians who pointed to the recovery of any of their patients as a vindication of their system . In ...
... medicine . It would silence cynics who claimed medicine could do nothing , and serve as a corrective to the claims of em- pirics and sectarians who pointed to the recovery of any of their patients as a vindication of their system . In ...
Contents
A SCIENCE OF SOCIAL REFORM | 13 |
Farrs Political Liberalism | 23 |
Three THE GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE | 37 |
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actuary Annual Report Army births British Medical British Medical Association calculated cause of death census cholera Committee contagion copy B.M. Add criticism Cullen death rates diagram disease theory early economic Edmonds Edwin Chadwick England's Mortality Statistics English Life Table epidemic Epidemic Diseases fact Farr's Biometer fever Florence Nightingale G.R.O. and England's healthy district high mortality hospital mortality human hygiene Ibid John Simon L. S. E. Farr Collection Lancet law of mortality letter to Florence letter to William living Lond Manchester Statistical Society medical officer medical profession Medicine methods metropolis mortality rates nosology Notes to Pages Nuisances Removal political Poor Law population density public health rate of mortality registrar Rumsey sickness smallpox Society of London Statistical Movement Statistical Society statisticians suggested Suppl Theory and Epidemic Thomas Wakley tion Trans Victorian Vital Statistics Well-Being of Urban William Farr zymotic diseases Zymotic Theory