[1][2][3] Following a severe outbreak of cholera in England in 1831-32 a London physician, J.H.Tucker, proposed in a letter to the Lancet that a society should be formed to specifically study epidemics.
At a follow-up meeting in July, chaired by Sir Astley Cooper, a constitution was agreed and officers appointed.
Benjamin Guy Babington, a Guy's Hospital physician, was elected as the first president of the society, whose agreed objectives were: The seal of the society included the Latin words, venienti occurrite morbo (confront disease at its onset).
In 1860, the National (British) Association for the Promotion of Social Science (NAPSS) - a Department of Public Health - had as its Head of the Sub-Committee the founding President of the Epidemiological Society: B.G.
[8] It features on one side the head of Jenner and on the other the globe emblem of the Epidemiological Society.