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John Graunt
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- John Graunt was a storekeeper from London, England, who is credited with being the founding father of the science of vital statistics. Before Graunt's time, public health surveillance was unprecedented, and no method was available to quantify disease patterns in the population. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Graunt, John (1620–1674)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/John_Graunt
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