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Elisha Harris was born on March 5, 1824, at Westminster, Vermont, United States, the son of James and Eunice (Foster) Harris.
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Elisha Harris was born on March 5, 1824, at Westminster, Vermont, United States, the son of James and Eunice (Foster) Harris.
Elisha attended a country school near his father’s farm, studied medicine under Dr. S. B. Woolworth, and in 1849 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.
Elisha Harris began the practice of medicine in New York City, and in 1855 became superintendent of the quarantine hospital on Staten Island. Four years later he was given charge of the construction of the floating hospital to be anchored below the Narrows. He was a member of the committee which prepared the “code of marine hygiene” adopted at its Boston convention of 1860. This code comprehended all the essential details of the port quarantine practice in force in New York City for many years thereafter.
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Harris cooperated with Rev. Henry Whitney Bellows and others in bringing about the organization of the United States Sanitary Commission, of which he became a member on June 12, 1861. The only experienced sanitarian in that body, he urged the importance of the prevention as well as the relief of sickness and suffering in the army, and contributed Hints for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases in Camps, Transports, and Hospitals (1863) to the series of monographs published by the Commission.
Harris also originated an effective system of national records of the death and burial of soldiers and was one of the editors of the Sanitary Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion (2 vols. , 1867-1869).
As secretary of the Council of Hygiene of the Citizens’ Association of New York, he summarized and published the report of the sanitary survey of the city conducted in 1864 under the direction of Dr. Stephen Smith. This report, by calling forceful attention to the existence of appalling conditions, led to the passage of the Metropolitan Health Act (1866). Harris, who had early recognized the importance of vital statistics, was made registrar of records under this board and later sanitary superintendent of the city. In the latter capacity he vigorously enforced the law of 1867 which provided for the regulation and inspection of tenement houses. A change in administration in 1870 caused his retirement until 1873, when he was appointed registrar of vital statistics. He left that office in 1876, having reorganized the service and devised a system which was still in use at the time of his death.
When the National Board of Health was organized by Act of Congress in 1879, Harris was one of eight appointed to inspect the sea-port quarantine stations. In 1880 he became one of the three original commissioners and the secretary of the newly organized New York State Board of Health; and also state superintendent of vital statistics, which offices he held until his death.
Elisha Harris is remembered as a pioneer sanitarian and provider of Health Act, which established New York’s first effective board of health. He also designed the first hospital car, which was immediately approved and put into use. This invention won two awards in France, and was used by the Prussian army during the Franco-Prussian War.
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Harris was a member of the National Quarantine and Sanitary Association, and a founding member of the American Public Health Association.
Harris married Eliza Andrews, daughter of Josiah B. Andrews. Mrs. Harris died in 1867.
They had no children, and Harris did not remarry.
