High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Ashby Plecker (2 April 1861–1947) was a physician and public health advocate who was the first registrar of Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics.Plecker graduated from Hoover Military Academy in 1880 and obtained a medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1885. He settled in Hampton, Virginia in 1892, and became its public health officer in 1902. He took an active interest in obstetrics and public health issues, educating midwives, inventing a home incubator, and prescribing home remedies for infants. His efforts are credited with an almost 50% decline in birthing deaths for black mothers.

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