Remarks on Mr. Haviland's report on the visitation of fever in the school and town of Uppingham.

  • Hodgkinson, R.J.
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[1876]
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Credit: Remarks on Mr. Haviland's report on the visitation of fever in the school and town of Uppingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MR. HAVILAND'S REPORT, AND OTHER REMARKS ON THE LATE VISITATION OF TYPHOID FEVER IN THE SCHOOL AND TOWN OF UPPINGHAM. I WILL first take the cases of boys taken ill with the fever in the Lower School which have been brought prominently forward by Mr. Haviland. P. 3 of the Report: the case of B. E. H. In this earliest case I have to plead guilty to ignorance of the nature and origin of typhoid fever. During my life of twenty years as a Master in Uppingham School, I had never had a case of this fever in my house, nor even seen one. There was nothing in the early stages of the disease to awaken anxiety in the mind of one inexperienced in the subtle forms it assumes—nothing but what must perpetually be happening in a house of young boys, viz., such ailments as are sufficient to awaken care and watchfulness, but not sufficient to awaken apprehension of serious mischief But whether I am greatly or little to blame in this matter, the com- plexion that Mr. Haviland imparts to it by his sprinkling of italics, and a selection of materials favourable to his purpose, is certainly misleading. His account is not the report of a scientific enquirer into the causes of fever; on the contrary, much of it is impertinent, and bears no, relation to his duties as a servant of the Sanitary Board. Mr. Haviland states (p. 31) I have given a short history