Jeremiah (Jerry) Noah Morris CBE, 1910–2009

According to the Financial Times, his father Nathan was a penniless Jewish educator who fled the pogroms of Czarist Russia and took the name Morris from the captain of the ship that brought him to England. 1 The family did not stay long in Liverpool, but moved to Glasgow where they settled in a poor...

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Published in:	Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979) 2010-04, Vol.64 (4), p.304-306
Main Author:	Ashton, John R
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Cardiovascular disease Collaboration community physician Epidemiology exercise Health services heart disease Hospitals Medicine Physicians Public health social epidemiology Social medicine social research Swimming War
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Summary:	According to the Financial Times, his father Nathan was a penniless Jewish educator who fled the pogroms of Czarist Russia and took the name Morris from the captain of the ship that brought him to England. 1 The family did not stay long in Liverpool, but moved to Glasgow where they settled in a poor neighbourhood amidst the slums. All this was the preamble to an astonishing post-war career in which he has become best known for his pioneering and imaginative work on exercise and heart disease. 10 Commentators have tended to focus on the substantial body of knowledge now being translated into policy and frontline action that began with his observation that declines in male death rates had failed to match those for females since the First World War. 9 Certainly, his ingenuity in obtaining trouser sizes of drivers and conductors on London buses was a paramount example of the 'epidemiological imagination' at work. 11 His subsequent finding that vigorous exercise rather than waist size was what mattered paved the way for much that was to follow.
ISSN:	0143-005X 1470-2738