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Citizens who want to get their teeth into solid facts on effects of water fluoridation had their answer last week in a 28-page pamphlet by a statistician who has at his fingertips more figures on health and disease, life and death, than any man living: Louis Israel Dublin...
From Control to Plans. Statistician Dublin's punch-card tabulators accurately foresaw, 20 years in advance, the great U.S. decline in the incidence of TB. He was among the first to focus attention on the growing menace of diabetes and the role of obesity in shortening life, and he sometimes spotted epidemics-in-the-mak-ing in faraway cities before local health officers did. A stocky, peppery father of four, he cried alarm in the '30s over the declining U.S. birth rate, persuaded birth-control proponents to change their pitch to planned parenthood, and was delighted when...
...Statistician Dublin's most sweeping statistic: "Next to the common cold, tooth decay is probably the most universal disease suffered by mankind." His most precise: men and women aged 40 to 44 who have spent their lives in areas with naturally fluoridated water average only three missing teeth; those in non-fluoride communities average 14. Tooth decay has declined 54% to 60% among youngsters in city after city where fluoridation has been practiced for about ten years...
...been educated in profoundly different cultures, but they had one thing in common-they were all from what the U.N. calls "small nations": Australia, Ceylon, Denmark, Tunisia and Uruguay. The bulk of the work of preparing the report fell on the shoulders of Keith Shann, able young (39) Australian statistician-turned-diplomat, who on the day of publication flew back to his post as Australian Ambassador in Manila. To Shann's credit, he maintained a detached attitude in the presentation of fact and conclusions, but it is probably not without certain feeling that he and his fellow "small nations...
Howard Raiffa, a mathematical statistician now at Columbia will become Associate Professor of Business Administration effective July 1. At Columbia he has been making statistical studies in the social sciences...