SURVEILLANCE OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
SURVEILLANCE OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
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DOI：
10.1056/nejm196301242680405
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发表时间：
1963-01-01
影响因子：
158.5
通讯作者：
LANGMUIR, AD
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作者：
LANGMUIR, AD
最伟大的统计流行病学家威廉·法尔（William Farr）在他关于1848 - 1849年霍乱流行的综合报告的引言中写道：“如果一支外国军队在英国海岸登陆，占领所有海港，……蹂躏了整个夏天的人口和…在它占领这个国家的那一年里，它杀死了五万三千二百九十三名男人、女人和孩子，……登记死者的工作将是难以形容的痛苦；在灾难中被描述为破坏部长的情况下，痛苦并没有大大减轻……
IN the introduction to his comprehensive report on the cholera epidemic of 1848–49, William Farr,1that greatest of statistical epidemiologists, wrote, "If a foreign army had landed on the coast of England, seized all the seaports,. . . ravaged the population through the summer and. . . in the year it held possession of the country slain fifty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-three men, women and children,. . . the task of registering the dead would be inexpressibly painful; and the pain is not greatly diminished by the circumstance that in the calamity to be described the minister of destruction . . .