I&D History of Epidemiology and Public Health

The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health

The classification of disease

Proposed that products of organic decomposition entered body via respiratory tract (obsolete from 1900)

'Greatest happiness of the greatest number'
'Welfare through workhouses'

Sanitary reformer
Illustrations of filth and degradation among lower classes
^ Connected to prevalence of disease and high mortality due to poor sanitary provisions, drainage and water supply (remember 'pump' image with death rate near it- that was Snow)

Bequest UCL to extend education in hygiene!

Repots on cholera epidemics
Statistical nosology, classification of diseases
Produced life tables to look at mortality

Zymotic theory of disease

Observations in army hospitals and out mortality down to their poor condition

Wrote on matters affecting health

Used graphics in arguments

Cholera 'Broad Street pump'

Mapped cholera deaths

Discovered cholera waterborne - not accepted by peers

Epidemiology of dental caries, importance of fluoride,

The idea that a vapour (masima) emanated from filth, disease and death. Inhalation lead to illness and death (obsolete by 1900)