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LLD (22 October 1849- 29 July 1926) was a Scottish physician and public health expert. He helped to establish the National Health Insurance system in the UK.
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he developed an interest in public health and the application of statistics to public health. In 1885, he gained a Diploma in Public Health from the
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In 1877 he married Jessie Schoolbred Rowat. They had two sons and two daughters. His son John Borland McVail married the daughter of his friend
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and succeeded Dr Borland as Medical Officer of Health for the Kilmarnock area also becoming a Physician at
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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Vaccination Vindicated: Being an Answer to the Leading Anti-Vaccinators
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the second son of James McVail and his wife, . His older brother was
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in Kilmarnock, and gained his doctorate (MD) in 1875. Inspired by
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Recipients of the Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine
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on the south coast of England where he died on 29 July 1926.
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FRSE
Kilmarnock
David McVail
Kilmarnock Academy
University of Glasgow
University of St Andrews
general practitioner
Henry Littlejohn
Edinburgh
University of Cambridge
Kilmarnock Infirmary
Stirlingshire
Dunbartonshire
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Joseph Bell
Andrew Douglas Maclagan
John Brown Buist
Royal Society of Medicine
Jenner Medal
Golders Green
London
Torquay
John Glaister
Vaccination Vindicated: Being an Answer to the Leading Anti-Vaccinators
Dr. C. Creighton, M.D. and Vaccination: A Review
"The Milroy Lectures; On Half a Century of Smallpox and Vaccination"
doi
10.1136/bmj.1.3040.408
ISSN
0007-1447

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