Ira Vaughan Hiscock

Background

HISCOCK, Ira Vaughan was born on May 7, 1892 in Farmington, Maine, United States. Son of J. Eugene and Susan Angie (Corbett) Hiscock.

Education

Bachelor, Wesleyan University, 1914. Master of Arts, Wesleyan University, 1916. Doctor of Science, Wesleyan University, 1939.

Master in Public Health, Yale University, 1921. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1931. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Connecticut Medical Society, 1973.

Career

Bacteriologist, Connecticut Public Health Laboratory, 1914. Bacteriologist, American Red Cross, 1917. Sanitary Corps, United States Army, American Expeditionary Forces, Division.

30, 1918 (now Major, Reserve Corps). Director, Columbia, South Carolina, Public Health Laboratory. 1919; Associate Professor, P.H., Yale Medical Sch., since 1920.

Lecturer, Columbia U. Summer Sessions, 1923 and 1924. Lecturer, University of So. California, 1928; Consultant in Public Health and Director of Health Surveys, since 1924.

Commissioner, N. Haven Board of Health, since 1927.

Works

• book

  • Public health in Hawaii;: Report of a health inventory in 1960
  • Ways to community health education,

Membership

Member New Haven Board Health, from 1928, president, 1942. President Connecticut State Public Health League, 1951-1952. Vice chairman health committee National Boy Scouts American.

Member Connecticut State Public Health Council, from 1952. Health research consultant New Jersey Health Department, 1961-1962. Member Connecticut State Public Welfare Advisory Committee, 1962-1969, National Committee Community Health Action Studies, from 1962.

President National Health Council, 1938-1940. Executive committee medical advisory board American Red Cross, 1945-1951. Consultant public health Connecticut Commission on Reorganization of State Department.

Member Connecticut Commission on Care and Prevention of Sickness, 1939-1940. Vice president National Social Welfare Assembly. Active in direction of state and local health agencies.

Sometime officer severl national health affiliated agencies. President Accredited Schools Public Health, 1957, National Society Prevention Blindness, 1958. Member health administration committee World Health Organization, 1951-1966.

Consultant to surgeon general Army of the United States, from 1957. Fellow American Public Health Association (president 1955-1956). Member and sometime president several university and state health organizations, including Beaumont Club, Connecticut Diabetes Association, Association for Mental Health, member Society of America Bacteriologists (president Connecticut chapter), Sigma Xi (former president), Delta Omega, Sigma Chi (former national president).

Clubs: Cosmos, Army-Navy (Washington). Graduate; National Travel, Yale Club of New York. New Hampshire Lawn; Randolph Mountain.

• Member of American Public Health Association (F. and member Governing Council). New Haven Company Council, Boy Scouts (Chairman Health and Safety Committee). New Haven Council of Social Agencies (v -president). New Haven Health Council (v.-chairman). Chamber of Commerce (Health Committee). New Hampshire Society for Mental Hygiene (v.-chairman). American Association for the Advancement of Science. International Assn, of Dairy and Milk Inspectors (former president). Society of American Bacteriologists. National. Tuberculosis Association. National. Conference of Social Work (executive comm, and chairman health Division). New England Health Institute (chairman Public Health Education). American Social Hygiene Association. Association Military Surgeons. Sigma Xi; Sigma Chi; Phi Chi (medical). Delta Omega; American Legion. Masons; Mory’s Association Clubs: Graduate (New Haven), Quinnipiac.

Connections

Married Margaret McConway Scoville, February 26, 1921. Children: William McConway, Margaret Brooks (Weatherly).

Father:

Eugenie Hiscock

Mother:

S. Angie (Corbett) Hiscock

Spouse:

Margaret McConway Scoville

child:

Margaret Brooks Hiscock (Weatherly)

child:

William McConway Hiscock