Talk:Derrick Tovey
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Yoninah in topic Did you know nomination
 | A fact from Derrick Tovey appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination edit
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 13:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
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- ... that Derrick Tovey recognised early cases of smallpox during the outbreak in Bradford in 1962? [1]
- ALT1:... that Derrick Tovey attributed the containment of the Bradford smallpox outbreak of 1962 to effective contact tracing and vaccination? "This ‘success’ was due primarily to the fact that a small group of regional and local doctors, nurses and administrators had the authority and drive to introduce immediate measures to tackle the outbreak, to set in motion exhaustive tracing of contacts, and to initiate ring local mass vaccination." [2] (Tovey's account)
- Reviewed: Frances Todman
Created by Whispyhistory (talk) and Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Whispyhistory (talk) at 16:46, 27 December 2020 (UTC).
Interesting work and life, on good sources, offline and subscription sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I prefer the ALT. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
