A Half Century of Public Health; jubilee historical volume of the American Public Health Association in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of its foundation, New York City, November 14-18, 1921. by American Public Health Association; Mazyck P. RAVENEL (editor) (1862-1946) - 1921

New York:: American Public Health Association, 1921., 1921. Large 8vo. xi, [1], 461, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait, index; minor tape repairs applied to margins of pp. 1 & 11. Recent full maroon stamped cloth; endleaves renewed, with heavy repairs to title gutter and rear (some related wear). Ex-library copy (rubberstamps pp. title, dedication, 77, 177). Good. With contributions by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs Carl L. Alsberg (1877-1940), Canadian public health physician Peter H. Bryce (1853-1932), an American pioneer in public health research and practice Charles V. Chapin (1856-1941), the fifth Surgeon General of the United States Hugh Smith Cumming (1869-1948), pioneer in nursing education Lavinia L. Dock (1858-1956), American bacteriologist Frederick P. Gorham (1871-1933), founder of modern environmental technology Rudolph Hering (1847-1923), American statistician Frederick Ludwig Hoffman (1865-1946), pioneer American entomologist Leland Ossian Howard (1857-1950), public health pioneer George Martin Kober (1850-1931), physician, public health officer, inventor, agricultural scientist, a pioneer in the dairy industry Charles E. North (1869-1961), first deputy health commissioner George T. Palmer, chemist, bacteriologist and sanitary expert Earle B. Phelps (1876-1953), American food scientist and microbiologist Samuel C. Prescott (1872-1962), professor of preventive medicine Mazyck Porcher Ravenel (1862-1946), founder and First President of the American Public Health Association Stephen Smith (1823-1922), pediatrician Philip Van Ingen (1875-1953), American social reformer Lawrence Veillier (1872–1959), and American civil engineer and an expert in the field of sanitary microbiology George C. Whipple (1866-1924). / Mazyck Porcher Ravenel was a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Missouri. He was president of the American Public Health Association. REFERENCES: Garrison and Morton 1654.