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He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of Walker Burford and Bettie Allen Hamner Freeman. His father was successively a farmer, merchant, and life insurance agent in Richmond, Virginia; a veteran of the Civil War, he also wrote on Confederate military history.
Allen Freeman attended public schools, then enrolled in Richmond College, receiving the B. S. degree in 1899.
In the fall of 1901 he entered the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. Freeman was especially influenced by William Osler's clinics and William H. Welch's courses in the new science of bacteriology.
A good student, he was well liked by his colleagues who selected him to present their farewell gift to Osler when the latter left Hopkins. After receiving the M. D. in 1905, he served the following year at the Newark Hospital in New Jersey.
Although he did not learn much general medicine as an intern, he did learn "something of public health and a great deal about the contagious diseases. "
Settling in Richmond, he established a private practice and served as demonstrator in physiology at the Medical College of Virginia in 1906-1907.
Freeman gave up his practice in June 1907 to assume the post of medical inspector of the new Richmond City Health Department. This position offered a regular income and the opportunity to enter a field in which, as he wrote to his brother, "there is a lot of pioneer work to be done, a lot of thorough-going active study to be made. "
In his new post he was instrumental in improving the city's sewers, purifying its water, and inspecting milk supplies. At the time typhoid fever was endemic, and Freeman devised ways to collect case data that aided in tracing the sources of infection and in gaining the cooperation of practicing physicians. His findings were used to establish a program for the control of the disease.
In 1908 Freeman became assistant commissioner of health of Virginia. His duties took him, sometimes on horseback, into remote areas of the state, where he traced reports of outbreaks of smallpox, diphtheria, and typhoid and sought their sources, an activity that often required stamina and tact as well as scientific acumen.
In 1912 Freeman visited Washington to lobby for the passage of a public health bill and to support a federal charter for the foundation that J. D. Rockefeller proposed to create. These activities gave Freeman experience in the political side of public health and increased his acquaintance with workers in the field.
Freeman left Virginia in 1915 to become an epidemiologist in the United States Public Health Service. In his two years with the service he took part in sanitary surveys in Kansas and Iowa and studied water pollution of the Ohio River at Cincinnati and of streams in New England.
This work was interrupted when he was assigned to a team of public health officers investigating the 1910 poliomyelitis epidemic in New York City. The epidemic ran its course, but the data collected were used in later studies. Freeman's years with the Public Health Service involved much travel and frequent relocation for his family.
He was glad, therefore, to accept an appointment as commissioner of health of Ohio, and he settled in Columbus. At the time he took office, local health officers were mostly nonprofessionals. Freeman began to move to create health departments for each county, with a trained health official to direct the necessary staff.
World War I delayed the implementation of his plans, but in 1920, with the passage of the Hughes-Griswold Law, Ohio had the most advanced public health law in the United States. Freeman himself joined the army as a major in the medical corps and served on the Commission on Respiratory Diseases from July to December 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas, and Camp Pike, Ark.
A new career opened for Freeman in 1921 when he accepted the invitation of his former teacher William H. Welch to become resident lecturer in public health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, which had opened in 1919 with Welch as director.
The academic life proved much to Freeman's liking; in 1923 he was elected professor and spent the rest of his active years at the Baltimore school.
His work brought him into contact with welfare workers, and he helped to draft legislation providing compensation for occupational diseases. In 1934 Freeman was elected to a three-year term as dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene.
He was the author of many papers on epidemiology and public health administration and of a delightful autobiography, Five Million Patients (1946). He also edited A Study of Rural Public Health Service (1933). Freeman retired in 1946 but continued to participate in public health affairs until his death in Baltimore.
From 1910 to 1914 Freeman took on additional responsibility as director for Virginia of the Rockefeller Commission for Eradication of Hookworm, training and directing a staff to identify and treat cases in rural clinics. The greatest success of the commission was its campaign to teach the country people better sanitary habits, a program that had a lasting effect on the growth of rural health service in the S. He also helped set up a school of public health in Brazil and participated in a health survey of Italy for the League of Nations. Asked to study medical facilities in four counties in New York State, he gained a sound knowledge of the rural practitioner and his problems. He was chairman of a committee to examine medical care in Maryland, and for many years he served on the health advisory councils of Baltimore and the state of Maryland. He served on numerous boards and committees, gave expert testimony in courts of law, and was sometimes called upon to appear before congressional committees.
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He found teaching stimulating, but he realized that to teach effectively he had to keep in touch with practical problems. He made a survey of public health in Quebec for the Rockefeller Foundation and traveled with Welch to visit public health institutions in Western Europe.
A fellow of the American Public Health Association, he was its president in 1942.
Freeman was a leader in the pioneer years of public health work and contributed much to the organization of state and municipal boards of health.
He was friendly in manner and inspired confidence in his associates. A good administrator and an effective teacher, he derived his greatest satisfaction from the successes of his students.
Freeman returned to Virginia in May 1906 and on June 30 married Julia Griffin Brown. They had two daughters.
