Harold Fred Dorn Papers 1932-1970
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Dorn, Harold F. (Harold Fred), 1906-1963
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A medical statistician for the U.S. Public Health Service, Harold Fred Dorn was born near Ithaca, N.Y. in 1906. After earning an M.S. in Sociology from Cornell, Dorn developed an interest in statistics. He received a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1933 and in 1934 studied the application of statistical methods to social data at the Galton Laboratory at the University College, London. Dorn's best-known work is his development of a "statistical methodology for large-scale epidemiological ...
United States. Public Health Service
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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...
