William Farr

Standard Name: Farr, William

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Florence Farr	FF 's father, William Farr , was a successful doctor, medical statistician, and reformer. He lectured and published on the subject of hygiene, which he preferred to call hygiology. Bernard Shaw describes him as...
Friends, Associates	Florence Nightingale	By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau . She also knew John Stuart Mill , Giuseppe Garibaldi , James Clark , Edwin Chadwick , William Rathbone , Julia Wedgwood , Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Occupation	Florence Nightingale	The expertise FN gained while in Crimea placed her time in demand. Medical officers consulted her on hospital plans, as did the army when expeditionary forces left for China. On her own time, she fought...
Wealth and Poverty	Florence Farr	When FF 's father died on 14 April 1883, he left his daughter only a modest income. By Shaw's account, William Farr had survived his wits and lost most of his means by senile speculations. qtd. in Shaw, George Bernard. “An Explanatory Word from Mr. Shaw”. Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats: Letters, edited by Clifford Bax, Home and Van Thal, 1946, p. vii - x. viii Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 13

The Registrar General's Office announced the national statistic that over 3,000 mothers died each year during childbirth.

Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.

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