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Chapin, Charles Value

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Chapin, Charles Value (1856–1941)

US epidemiologist and pioneering public health official. He tested water filters and disinfectants, and conducted field studies to show the correlation between unsanitary conditions and disease. His ideas and publications – including The Sources and Modes of Infection (1910) and Report on State Public Health Work (1916) – provided the foundations of modern public health.

He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He served as superintendent of health of Providence 1884–1932. He started the first municipal bacteriological lab in 1888.



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