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.

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    CHAPTER III. Area Defined—Size—Compared witli Others—Natural Boundarj System the best—Vagabond parts of Counties and Districts—France more naturally Divided—Isle of Man—Sheading-s—Local Government Board and County Councils—Average Size of English, Welsh, Scotch, and Irish Counties—The Boundaries of the Area—T/ie Coastal Boundanj— 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—lM/a7JtZ I?oM7i(iar?/—Districts and Parishes on the Line—Length of—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, North- umberland, Durham, Yorkshire, and Lancashire—Mean Height of the Border District Parishes—Percentage of tlie Border Population to that of the Border Districts. THE area we are now studying consists of the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and wliat is known as The English LaJce District, which includes parts of these counties and the Ulverston district of Lancashire. The entire area consists of two thousand five hundred and nineteen square miles, and thirty-one statute acres, made up as follows :— Cumberland ... 970,161 statute acres. Westmorland ... 500,906 ,, Ulverston... ... 141,121: ,, 1,612,191 or 2,519 square miles and 31 statute acres : so that it is one- twentieth the size of England (20-2) ; nearly one-third that