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John Shaw Billings

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American surgeon, statistician, United States Army officer, designer of New York Public library

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According to Wikipedia, John Shaw Billings was an American librarian, building designer, and surgeon who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army. His work with Andrew Carnegie led to the development and his service as the first director of the New York Public Library. Billings oversaw the building of the Surgeon General's Library, which was the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine.

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John Shaw Billings's Published Works

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Published Works

  • Methods of Tabulating and Publishing Records of Death. (2)
  • On some Forms of Tables of Vital Statistics, with Special Reference to the Needs of the Health Department of a City. (2)
  • CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS IN NEW YORK CITY DURING 1904 AND 1905. (1906) (2)
  • The President's Address. (1)
  • The Relation of Milk to Typhoid Fever in New York City. (1)
  • Report of Committee on a Sanitary Survey of the United States. (0)
  • City of New York (1907) (0)
  • Abstract of Special Reports by Army Medical Officers on the Effect of Mountain Climates upon Health. (0)
  • Notes on Hospital Construction. (0)
  • The United States Census in Its Relations to Sanitation. (0)
  • The Report of the Advisory Council on National Sanitary Legislation. (0)
  • Rights, Duties and Privileges of the Community in Relation to those of the Individual in Regard to Health. (0)
  • Typhoid Fever in the City of New York during 1905 (1906) (0)

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