Founded the Yale Department of Public Health –1915.
Pioneered modern sewage disposal; housing and urban renewal.
1932-1947 -Senior Sanitarian, United States Public Health Service (Reserve)
Most widely quoted and influential public health pioneer
Stiles found that hookworm disease occurred most commonly in rural areas. It thrived where the soil was sandy, but not in areas with clay soil. He described hookworm disease (known by the scientific name uncinariasis) as “one of the most important and most common diseases of this part of the South, especially on farms and plantations…
Publication of the first edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of milk by the American Public Health Association. Standard Methods for the Bacterial Examination of Milk by Committees of the Laboratory Section, American Public Health Association includes: Collection of Samples. Technique and Apparatus Method of making Apparatus. Technique Incubation and Counting Milk Sediments Special Bacteria and…