JAMA, Jun 1961; 176: 1046-1047: Godfrey, Edward Settle Jr. Albany, N.Y.;
born in Fort Yates, N.D., Aug. 16, 1878; University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, 1900; established himself in medical practice in Bisbee, Ariz., in 1903 and five years later was appointed superintendent of public health of the Territory of Arizona, an office he held four years; from 1912 to 1915 was engaged in private practice in Phoenix and was simultaneously city health officer and school medical inspector; in 1916 became epidemiologist on the staff of the Illinois State Board of Health and in the following year was appointed to the corresponding office in the New York State Health Department; during World War I served with the American Red Cross as a captain; following the war was assigned to Southeastern Europe to assist in a survey of medical, hospital, health and sanitation problems which arose from the war; returned to the United States in 1919, and resumed his duties in the state health department; in 1920 appointed director of the division of communicable diseases; served as adjunct professor of preventive medicine and public health at the Albany (N.Y.) Medical College and clinical professor of epidemiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City; named director of local health administration in 1931; in that capacity, and later as assistant commissioner for local health administration, he reorganized and directed the work of. the 16 state health districts, exercised general supervision over various public health projects in about 40 counties receiving state aid for public health activities, and had general oversight of the work of approximately 800 local health officers; in 1936 appointed state health commissioner; a founder and past-president of the American Epidemiological Society; fellow and past-president of the American Public Health Association which in 1951 awarded him the Sedgwick Memorial Medal in recognition of his contributions to the evolution and development of public health practice and his interpretation of the principles of epidemiology; past-president of the State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America and the State and Provincial Health Association; fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; a founder of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers and a member of the executive committee; died Dec. 13, aged 82, of cor pulmonale.
JAMA, Jun 1961; 176: 1046-1047: Godfrey, Edward Settle Jr. Albany, N.Y.;
born in Fort Yates, N.D., Aug. 16, 1878; University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, 1900; established himself in medical practice in Bisbee, Ariz., in 1903 and five years later was appointed superintendent of public health of the Territory of Arizona, an office he held four years; from 1912 to 1915 was engaged in private practice in Phoenix and was simultaneously city health officer and school medical inspector; in 1916 became epidemiologist on the staff of the Illinois State Board of Health and in the following year was appointed to the corresponding office in the New York State Health Department; during World War I served with the American Red Cross as a captain; following the war was assigned to Southeastern Europe to assist in a survey of medical, hospital, health and sanitation problems which arose from the war; returned to the United States in 1919, and resumed his duties in the state health department; in 1920 appointed director of the division of communicable diseases; served as adjunct professor of preventive medicine and public health at the Albany (N.Y.) Medical College and clinical professor of epidemiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City; named director of local health administration in 1931; in that capacity, and later as assistant commissioner for local health administration, he reorganized and directed the work of. the 16 state health districts, exercised general supervision over various public health projects in about 40 counties receiving state aid for public health activities, and had general oversight of the work of approximately 800 local health officers; in 1936 appointed state health commissioner; a founder and past-president of the American Epidemiological Society; fellow and past-president of the American Public Health Association which in 1951 awarded him the Sedgwick Memorial Medal in recognition of his contributions to the evolution and development of public health practice and his interpretation of the principles of epidemiology; past-president of the State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America and the State and Provincial Health Association; fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; a founder of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers and a member of the executive committee; died Dec. 13, aged 82, of cor pulmonale.
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