The geographical distribution of disease in Great Britain.

  • Haviland, Alfred, 1825-1903.
Date:
1892
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Credit: The geographical distribution of disease in Great Britain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PAGE Prt:face . . . vii Introduction ;? CHAPTER I. Early experiences of weather and disease—The cholera in 1849—Effects of calms and -winds on—Dr. Farr—Schonbein and ozone, 1848—Hippocrates— Climate, Weather, and Disease—Bondin—Littre—Dr. Farr's First Sup- plement for 1851-60 — Hurried to Death — Railway Travelling — Dr. Druitt—First edition of this work—Major Graham, Dr. Farr, Capt. Clode —Calms and Cholera—Hingeston—Hippocrates on Pestilence—The impor- tance of the great river inlets—How they first directed the course of the earliest invasion by animals and by man himself—English Channel—Pro- fessor James Geikie—The inlets around the English and Welsh coasts— Sir Archibald Geikie on Britain joined to the Continent and its subsequent isolation—Glacial period—Advent of man—The importance of the river valleys in the study of disease-distribution—Their relation to the medical geography of heart disease, cancer, and phthisis . . . . p. 5 CHAPTER II. The facts, and the propositions based upon them, relating to the geographical distribution of heart disease, cancer among females, and phthisis among females, in the Divisions, Counties and Districts of England and Wales, and in the Counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and the Lake District, contained in the first edition of this work, published in 1875 . . p. 12 CHAPTER III. Area Defined—Size—Compared with Others—Natural boundary System the best—Yagabond parts of Counties and Districts—France more naturally Divided—Isle of Man—Sheadings—Local Government Board and County Councils—Average size of English, AVelsh, Scotch, and Irish Counties— The Boundaries of the Area—The Coastal Boundary—Coastal Parishes and Townships—Their Foreshores and Tidal Waters—Sir A. C. Ramsay and submarine Denudation—Foreshores—Coastal Townships and Parishes— Foreshores and Populations—Length of Coastal Boundary—Foreshores and Sea-inlets—Percentage of Coastal to District Populations—Inland Bound- ary—Districts and Parishes on the Line—Length and Breadth of Area- Length of Area—Form—Mean level of Coastal Parishes—Course of the Inland Boundary Line—Mean Height of the Inland Boundary Line along Scotland, Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, and Lancashire—Mean Height of the Border District Parishes—Percentage of the Border Popula- tion to that of the Border Districts f>. 41