ID terms for Wade Hampton Frost

Question 1

Wade Hampton Frost

Answer 1

1st First Am prof./born in VA
Public Health Major
Big city  NY  Norfolk
Frost significant for development of Epidemiology
1905- U.S. PH service

Question 2

marine hospital in baltimore

Answer 2

Initially, Frost, largely did clinical measures instead of PH work

Question 3

Yellow Fever Epidemic (1905-06)

Answer 3

New Orleans
Sergeant sent him to control YF
Frost carried quarantine measures, put sick patients with netting and oil (protective measures)
Frost needed to understand scientifically (how YF is spread and where it came from)

Question 4

hygienic laboratory

Answer 4

D.C. 1908
Division of Pathology and Bacteriology
Frost mastered bacteriological and micro research (even if he didn’t have training)
Typhoid and polio prepared Frost for Career in Epidemiology
Frost analyzed statistical data (typhoid and polio)
Disease followed by seasonal flow chart factors involved in certain epidemics
Made model to follow for epidemics

Question 5

Johns Hopkins school of hygiene and public health

Answer 5

Target at Hopkins, first American epidemiologists to be appointed
Studied separate and distinct
Science ready to be distributed to all types of diseases

Question 6

TB studies

Answer 6

1930s= living in household with TB doubled risk of spread of disease
Time between infection and disease were longer (no signs)
Had “healthy carriers”- didn’t believe that they were contagious