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IJE Advance Access originally published online on January 31, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(1):19-23; doi:10.1093/ije/dym260
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Commentary: James Alison Glover (1874–1963), OBE (1919) CBE (1941) MD (1905) DPH (1905) FRCP (1933): health care variations research then and now

Klim McPherson

Corresponding author. Visiting Professor of Public Health Epidemiology, Nuffield Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Oxford University, Womens Centre, Level 3, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU. E-mail: klim.mcpherson@obs-gyn.ox.ac.uk

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‘James Allison Glover served in the Boer War and World War I. In 1917 he was appointed to the Cerebro-spinal Laboratory in London. There, his work on cerebrospinal fever resulted in the "spacing out" of beds in huts and earned him the name of "good friend of the private soldier". In 1919 he proceeded (sic) OBE for his work during the war. In 1920 he was appointed medical officer to the new Ministry of Health. He made significant contributions to rheumatology and the understanding and treatment of tonsillitis, and to public health more widely’. So says1 one of the eulogies to a master in public health, writing well before his time.

Published in 1938 his ‘The incidence of tonsillectomy among children’ in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine covered pretty much all there was to know in principle about variations in surgical rates, amply analysed by Glover. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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