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Old wine in new bottles.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Wenzel, Richard P. |
| Copyright Year | 1986 |
| Abstract | Recently I have been reading the works of Major Greenwood (1880-1949), the first professor of vital statistics and epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. An intelligent, erudite man and prolific author, he is perhaps most celebrated for his writings on the history of epidemiological and statistical thinking. Although the idea of hospital epidemiology and the concept of the infection control sister had its origin in England at the time of Greenwood's death, it is clear that the idea of surveillance is deeply ingrained in English tradition. Greenwood has recorded much of the tradition. To begin with, 1986 marks the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book, a great survey of landholding in England carried out on orders of William the Gonqueror. Because the survey was so detailed and was considered to invade into the personal life of the citizens, it received its maudlin sobriquet because it reminded the English of the last judgment: "[William I] sent his men all over England into every shire and had them find out how many honored hides there were in the shire, or what land and cattle the king himself had in the country, or what dues he ought to have in twelve months from the shire. Also, he had a record of what or how much everybody had who was occupying land in England, in land or cattle, and how much money it was worth. So very narrowly did he have it investigated, that there was no single hide nor a yard of land, nor indeed . . . one ox nor one cow nor one pig which was there left out, and not put down in his record." Its use for administrative and legal purposes survived for |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0195941700065085 |
| PubMed reference number | 3640735 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 7 |
| Issue Number | 10 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0195941700065085 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0195941700065085 |
| Journal | Infection control : IC |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
