biography
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Chapin, Charles Value
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| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1941)
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| biography:
| Epidemiologist and public-health official, born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Not caring for the private practice of medicine, he served as superintendent of health in Providence (1884–1932) and became a pioneer in public health. He started the first municipal bacteriological laboratory (1888), tested water filters and disinfectants, and conducted field studies to show the correlation between unsanitary conditions and disease. His field studies, hospital work, ideas, and publications, including The Sources and Modes of Infection (1910) and Report on State Public Health Work (1916), provided the foundations of the public-health movement in the 20th-c. |
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