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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 152, No. 12 : 1201-1203
Copyright © 2000 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Snippets from the Past: 70 Years Ago in the Journal

George W. Comstock

From the Department of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.


   INTRODUCTION
 
Vital statistics of the American Journal of Hygiene in 1930 continued the trend set in 1929. The 79 papers tended to be long (18 pages in length on average). The great majority, 53, dealt with parasites ranging in size from tapeworms to viruses. Among the 60 first authors for whom full names were given, 13 were recognizably female.

In the January issue for 1930 were two papers by Edgar Sydenstricker and Rollo H. Britten (1Go, 2Go) on the frequency of abnormalities among 100,924 White male life insurance policy holders who had accepted a physical examination provided by the Life Extension Institute. Sydenstricker, trained as a political economist, had been selected by the US Public Health Service to be its first public health statistician in 1915 (3Go). An early assignment was to work with Joseph Goldberger in his study of pellagra in seven South Carolina mill villages. Here . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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