Samuel Jay Crumbine

Samuel Jay Crumbine (September 17, 1862 - July 12, 1954) was a pioneer in public health who campaigned against the common drinking cup, the common towel, and spitting in public in order to prevent the spread of tuberculosis and other germs.^[1]

• 

  Brick - "Don't Spit on the Sidewalk" in the collection of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP in Washington, DC

Life in Dodge City

Dr. Crumbine began his medical practice “in rip-roaring, untamed Dodge City during its heyday,” the late 1880s and early 1890s. Fresh from medical school in 1885, he was taken on a tour of the saloons in the unsavory South Side. “I heard peals of laughter,” he related in later days, “staccato calls of the floor manager, occasional whoops of cowboys, and constant shuffling of heavy boots. At one end of the hall was a bar, doing a rushing business. At the other, on a small platform, was an orchestra—fiddle, guitar and banjo. The women were house entertainers, servants or demimondes.”

Dr. Crumbine was the model for "Doc Adams" on the long running TV show "Gunsmoke". The legendary lawmen of Dodge City—Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Luke Short and Bill Tilghman—were his contemporaries. On one occasion, he saw Tilghman through a severe siege of pneumonia. The lawman became one of the few to live to a ripe old age.

Life after Dodge City

He moved to Topeka to become a Kansas public-health officer. Eventually, he became nationally known for his work with the U.S. Public Health Service. He is the inventor of the flyswatter, most likely in 1905, an improvement on the earlier "flybat" produced by Frank H. Rose. He died in New York City in 1954.

Family

He had two children: Violet and Warren. Violet had one child, Carolyn, who has never married. Warren, who died in China in 1918, had one child, also named Warren, who in turn had four children, Peter, Dennis, Nancy and Katie. As of July, 2010, Dr. Crumbine had 18 living descendents.^[2]

Legacy

• The Crumbine Award is given in his honor.^[3]

Publications

• Frontier Doctor: The Autobiography of a Pioneer on the Frontier of Public Health

References

1. ^ Lee, R. Alton (2007). From Snake Oil to Medicine. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0275994678. http://books.google.com/books?id=VfARgzTp46IC&. 
2. ^ "S.J. Crumbine Dies.Physician Who Urged End to Public Drinking Cup.". New York Times. July 13, 1954. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10717F83F5C177B93C6A8178CD85F408585F9. Retrieved 2008-12-22. "Dr. Crumbine is given credit for putting the phrase "swat the fly" into the American ..." 
3. ^ "Crumbine Award". AFDO. http://www.afdo.org/afdo/states/crumbine.cfm. Retrieved 2008-12-22. "The Crumbine Award is a prestigious national award given annually to local environmental health jurisdictions who demonstrate excellence and continual improvement in a comprehensive food protection program. The purpose of the award is to encourage improvement and stimulate public interest in foodservice sanitation. The award is named in honor of Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine (1862 - 1954), a sanitarian-physician and public health pioneer who was renowned for his innovative methods of improving public health protection. The Award was established in his honor in 1954 and was first awarded in 1955." 

External links

• Article about Crumbine and a photograph of brick with the slogan "Don't spit on sidewalk."

Persondata
Name	Crumbine, Samuel Jay
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	September 17, 1862
Place of birth
Date of death	July 12, 1954
Place of death

This biographical article related to medicine is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · Categories: 1862 births 1954 deaths Medical biography stubs Wikimedia Foundation. 2010. Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР? St. Catharine (Waldorf, Maryland) Samuel Green (Ku Klux Klan) Look at other dictionaries: Public health — Newspaper headlines from around the world about polio vaccine tests (13 April 1955). Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society,… …   Wikipedia Community-led total sanitation — (CLTS) is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD). Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF… …   Wikipedia Middle Eastern Mental Health Issues & Syndromes — Psychology, Multiculturalism, and the study of Middle Eastern Mental Health Syndromes,[1][2]is an area of research that continues to grow in its scope and content in the United States and throughout the World today. Because the Internet is such a …   Wikipedia Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — Agency overview Formed October 27, 1992 Preceding agencies Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities (1942) Office of Malaria Control in War Areas (1942 …   Wikipedia Ergonomics — Ergonomics: the science of designing user interaction with equipment and workplaces to fit the user. Ergonomics is the study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, its movements, and its cognitive abilities. The International …   Wikipedia Nutrition — The Nutrition Facts table indicates the amounts of nutrients which experts recommend to limit or consume in adequate amounts. Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in… …   Wikipedia Epidemiology — For the Community episode, see Epidemiology (Community). Epidemiology is the study of health event, health characteristic, or health determinant patterns in a population. It is the cornerstone method of public health research, and helps inform… …   Wikipedia Biological hazard — Biohazard Infection Classification and external resources Biohazard symbol Biohazard redirects here. For other uses, see Biohazard (disambiguation). Biological hazards, refer to biological substances that pose a threat …   Wikipedia Laundry symbol — Laundry care symbols with instructions in Japanese. The four symbols shown indicate that the garment must not be washed in water, must not be bleached, may be ironed only with a protective pressing cloth, and must be dry cleaned. A laundry symbol …   Wikipedia Health economics — For the journal, see Health Economics. Economics …   Wikipedia 18+ © Academic, 2000-2024 Contact us: Technical Support, Advertising Dictionaries export, created on PHP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MODx. Mark and share Search through all dictionaries Translate… Search Internet Share the article and excerpts Direct link … Do a right-click on the link above and select “Copy Link”