William Farr CB was a British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics.
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26 Facts About William Farr
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William Farr was effectively adopted by a local squire, Joseph Pryce, when Farr and his family moved to Dorrington.
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William Farr married in 1833 and started a medical practice in Fitzroy Square, London.
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William Farr was hired there, initially on a temporary basis to handle data from vital registration.
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Chadwick and William Farr had an agenda, demography aimed at public health, and the support of the initial Registrar General Thomas Henry Lister.
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In 1839, William Farr joined the Statistical Society, in which he played an active part as treasurer, vice-president and president over the years.
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William Farr was involved in the Social Science Association from its foundation in 1857, taking part in its Quarantine Committee and Committee on Trades' Societies and Strikes.
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In 1840, William Farr submitted a letter to the Annual Report of the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England.
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William Farr showed that during the smallpox epidemic, a plot of the number of deaths per quarter followed a roughly bell-shaped or "normal curve", and that recent epidemics of other diseases had followed a similar pattern.
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William Farr subscribed to the conventional theory that cholera was carried by polluted air rather than water – the miasmic theory.
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William Farr presented how topographical features are able to prevent certain diseases similarly to immunization.
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William Farr took part in the General Board of Health's 1854 Committee for Scientific Enquiries.
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William Farr's research was detailed and showed an inverse correlation of mortality and elevation.
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William Farr produced a monograph which showed that mortality was extremely high for people who drew their water from the Old Ford Reservoir in East London.
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William Farr served as a commissioner in the 1871 census, retiring from the General Register Office in 1879 after he was not given the post of Registrar General, the position going to Sir Brydges Henniker.
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In 1837 William Farr wrote the chapter "Vital Statistics" for John Ramsey McCulloch's Statistical Account of the British Empire.
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William Farr revised a book of James Fernandez Clarke on tuberculosis.
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William Farr exploited his GRO post compiling abstracts in a way that went beyond the original job description.
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William Farr, by relying on the existing mathematical model of mortality, could use data sampling to cut back the required computation.
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William Farr identified urbanisation and population density as public health issues.
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William Farr married Mary Elizabeth Whittal in 1842, and they had eight children.
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