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Hermann Biggs

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Impressed by what Lillian Wald's public health nurses were able to achieve in reducing school absenteeism due to communicable diseases that could be treated at home, Biggs, who was responsible for New York City's health employed nine nurses in Manhattan – the first school nurses to be employed in any
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In the early years of broadcasting, Biggs was among the first medical experts to have a radio program. He broadcast over station WGY in Schenectady NY on Friday nights during much of 1922, discussing common diseases and illnesses.
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publicly stated, "His death is a distinct loss to the state in a most important branch of its service. In the expression of my regret, I feel that I am joined by the citizens of the state generally."
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Miller, E. B. (December 1990). "Bibliographic briefs on Hermann M. Biggs, M.D., and three other physicians--all honorary members of the American Veterinary Medical Association".
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city in the United States. This led to his adding public health nursing to the municipal machinery for the control of tuberculosis. He served as president of the
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In 1913, he was chief of a board of experts appointed to make an investigation of health conditions in
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and director of the bacteriological laboratories and thereafter was general medical officer of the
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Hermann Biggs died in New York on June 28, 1923. He was buried in Grove Cemetery in Trumansburg.
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A commemorative marker at his birthplace in Trumansburg was erected in November 2019.
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of pathological anatomy in the latter institution in 1885. From 1892 to 1901, he was
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to the prevention and control of infectious diseases. He was born in
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Trumansburg
New York
New York University School of Medicine
medicine
public health
bacteriology
Metropolitan Board of Health
physician
public health
bacteriology
Trumansburg, New York
Cornell University
Bellevue Hospital Medical College
professor
pathologist
New York Department of Health
therapeutics
clinical medicine
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children
Farmingdale, New Jersey
New York State
General League of Red Cross Societies
Geneva
King of Spain
preventive medicine
Tuberculosis
Hermann Biggs' name as it appears on the LSHTM Frieze
LSHTM

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