PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - P M Dunn
TI  - Dr William Farr of Shropshire (1807–1883): obstetric mortality and training
AID  - 10.1136/fn.87.1.F67
DP  - 2002 Jul 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
PG  - F67--F69
VI  - 87
IP  - 1
4099  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/87/1/F67.short
4100  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/87/1/F67.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed2002 Jul 01; 87
AB  - 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.