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He was born in New York City, the son of John Haven Emerson, a prominent physician, and Susan Tompkins.
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professor statesman public health leader
He was born in New York City, the son of John Haven Emerson, a prominent physician, and Susan Tompkins.
After attending private schools, Emerson entered Harvard in 1893 and completed the four-year course in three years.
He received the B. A. in 1896, then enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Columbia University, where he combined extra research in physiology with his medical course work and was awarded both an M. A. and an M. D. in 1899.
Emerson's introduction to organized public health could scarcely have come under more propitious circumstances, for Goldwater, during his tenure of less than two years, reorganized the department, established an excellent rapport with both medical and civic groups, revised the Health Code, created the Bureau of Health Education, and established the first health district with a health center.
In 1902 he was made an associate in physiology and medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. His growing reputation as a practitioner and teacher led to his appointment as assistant visiting physician at Bellevue Hospital in 1906.
An early article entitled "Carious Teeth in the Tenement Population of New York City" (1908) demonstrated his concern for his fellowman, a concern that led him into the public health movement.
In 1914 Sigismund S. Goldwater became health commissioner of New York City. He selected Emerson as sanitary superintendent and assistant commissioner. Emerson's introduction to organized public health could scarcely have come under more propitious circumstances, for Goldwater, during his tenure of less than two years, reorganized the department, established an excellent rapport with both medical and civic groups, revised the Health Code, created the Bureau of Health Education, and established the first health district with a health center.
On assuming the office of health commissioner on November 1, 1915, Emerson found himself in charge of a well-run and effective agency.
His major contribution was to extend the health district plan to the entire borough of Queens and to broaden the activities carried on at the health centers. By involving local community groups and the New York Academy of Medicine in the work, he gained wide support for the health centers.
The most dramatic event in his administration was a poliomyelitis epidemic in 1916 that resulted in approximately 9, 000 cases and 2, 449 deaths. Emerson mobilized city, state, and federal resources in an effort to bring the outbreak under control and to learn something about the disease.
But a Democratic party victory in November 1917 resulted in his dismissal the following January, closing an era in which New York City had stood preeminent in public health.
During his term as health commissioner Emerson called for treating alcoholism as a disease, began an educational program on heart disease, and started work on one of his most important publications.
As chairman of the Committee on Control of Communicable Diseases of the American Public Health Association (APHA), he was largely responsible for its first report, Control of Communicable Diseases in Man (1917).
During his thirty-five-year service on the committee, this report was gradually expanded and revised; it went through seven editions by 1950 and was translated into more than a dozen languages, becoming one of the most widely used public health documents in the world.
In 1918 Emerson was commissioned a colonel in the American Expeditionary Force and served overseas for eighteen months as chief epidemiologist of the army. From this experience came another of his major publications, A General Survey of Communicable Diseases in the A. E. F. (1919).
He also concentrated on one of his major aims--investigating the level of health services available throughout the United States. As chairman of the APHA subcommittee on local health units, he was responsible for Local Health Units for the Nation (1945).
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Although he professed no religion, Emerson was a Puritan at heart, and his strong social consciousness reflected the Quaker and Unitarian background of his family.
Emerson never used alcohol, tea, coffee, or tobacco. He had little tolerance for stupidity, but his strong desire to improve the health of his fellowman and his personal warmth made him liked and respected by his associates. It was characteristic that shortly before his death at Southold, New York, he denounced the "fuzzy-minded nitwits" who opposed the fluoridation of the New York City water supply.
For the last twenty years of his life he was a member of the New York City Board of Health.
A man of abundant energy, Emerson happily collaborated in these reforms; when Goldwater resigned to concentrate upon hospital administration, he was the logical replacement.
Following a residency at Bellevue Hospital, Emerson married Grace Parrish on June 15, 1901; they had five children.