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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:226-230
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Archaeology

Benjamin Guy Babington: Founding President of the London Epidemiological Society

Alun Evans

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK.

In 1986 Geoffrey Rose wrote1 ‘If the origin of epidemiology as a branch of medical science were to be given a date it would be 1850. That year saw the first recorded use in English of the new term, which was taken as the title of the "London Epidemiological Society".’ Rose went on to list the founder members as including William Farr, William Budd, Thomas Addison and John Snow. It is surprising that he omits the name of the Society's first President, Benjamin Guy Babington, because: ‘When in 1850, on the cessation of the second European visitation of cholera, the Epidemiological Society was first projected, the name of Babington was at once thought of as that of the most fit and efficient leader of the movement.’2 The Epidemiological Society may have grown out of the Statistical Society of London which was formed in 18343 as the two societies had members . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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