William Farr during the 1830s: the reform cause in medicine -- Statistics: a science of social reform -- General register office and England's mortality statistics -- Farr's biometer: the life table and its applications in medicine and economics -- Zymotic
theory and Farr's studies of epidemic diseases -- Well-being of urban man: slums, illness, and physical degeneration -- Farr, Florence Nightingale, and medical services -- Farr and the ledgers of death: assessments of his use of mortality data.
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