TY - JOUR T1 - Dr William Farr of Shropshire (1807–1883): obstetric mortality and training JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F67 LP - F69 DO - 10.1136/fn.87.1.F67 VL - 87 IS - 1 AU - P M Dunn Y1 - 2002/07/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/87/1/F67.abstract N2 - William Farr, chief statistician to the General Register Office for more than 40 years, was the most significant medical epidemiologist and statistician of the Victorian era. Often working behind the scenes, he helped to bring about many advances in hygiene and public health as well as developing a modern approach to the classification of disease and the collection and analysis of medical information data. ER -