Samuel Warren Abbott was an American surgeon with an interest in hygiene, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1837, and died on October 22, 1904. He was the son of an army captain, attended Phillips Andover Academy, took a bachelor of arts at Brown University in 1858 and a master of arts there in 1861, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1862. His public career was in the organization of public medicine in his home state. In 1877 he helped inaugurate the first medical examiner system in Massachusetts, and from 1886 until his death he served as the first secretary of the state board of health, the first such board in Massachusetts. He died at his home in Newton, Massachusetts.
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was an American surgeon with an interest in hygiene
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Samuel Warren Abbott (June 12, 1837
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October 22, 1904) was an American surgeon
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was an American surgeon with an interest in hygiene
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He was the first secretary of Massachusetts' first state board of health, serving from 1886 to 1904.
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He was the first secretary of Massachusetts' first state board of health, serving from 1886 to 1904.
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