OBITUARIES

摘要

Julius Richmond worked in the US Office of Economic Opportunity during the Lyndon Johnson administration and later was US surgeon general during the Carter administration. In the first of these posts he inaugurated the head start programme for underprivileged children. In the second he increased public awareness of disease prevention. He authored a 1979 report on the risks of smoking and fought for stronger warnings on cigarette packets. It was said of him-by former US senator Joseph Califano-that "There may have been more famous surgeons general, but there was none more dedicated, tenacious, or courageous." He was also professor of child health and preventive medicine at Chicago, Syracuse, and Harvard Universities.