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John Graunt – Scientist of the Day

John Graunt, an English tradesman, statistician, and epidemiologist, was born Apr. 24, 1620.

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John Graunt was born on April 24, 1620. Regarded as the founder of demography, Graunt was one of the first demographers, and perhaps the first epidemiologist, though by profession he was a haberdasher. Graunt, calculating with the Rule of Three and using ratios obtained by comparing years in the Bills of Mortality, was able to make estimates about the size of the population of London and England, birth rates and mortality rates, and the rise and spread of certain diseases. Graunt's work is still used today to study population trends and mortality.

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John Graunt was born on April 24, 1620. Graunt was one of the first demographers, and perhaps the first epidemiologist, though by profession he was a haberdasher. He was bankrupted later in life by losses suffered during Great Fire of London and the discrimination he faced following his conversion to Catholicism.

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During the Boston Medical Intern Strike in 2012, the striking soon-to-be physicians, surgeons, and specialists sought to find ways to keep being medically useful—both to prevent patients from suffering during the strike, and to forestall claims that the strikers were greedy, rather than exploited. General practitioners, family doctors, and the like were able to help at free clinics, but those studying to work in more specialized fields had to be inventive. A group of epidemiologists, morticians, and public health officers addressed the dilemma by staging a play about the first mortality studies, compiled by John Graunt during the 17th century. A straightforward piece of hagiography in its first draft, the spirit of the strike drew the group to focus more and more on the "Searchers," the long-ignored older, lower-class women who recorded fatalities for church records—the records Graunt used in his reports. While still impressing the importance of public health measures to the viewing public, its scenes of their gruesome daily task—with bodies strewn across the grass at the height of plague outbreak—inspired sympathy for the striking group's work. The climactic confrontation with John Graunt following his challenging the veracity of their work, meanwhile, led many to question the motivations and probity of Boston's medical research community for years to come.

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The Streets Of London – Part Fifty Eight

The Streets Of London – Part Fifty Eight

Tokenhouse Yard, EC2 If you walk down Lothbury towards London Wall you will come across on the left hand side a grand entrance to Tokenhouse Yard, its name bearing testimony to an interesting piece of England’s economic history. The issuance of coinage was a royal prerogative but during the first half of the 17th century, the Stuarts showed little interest in the fiddly bits of small change, like…

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