Enteric fever : its prevalence and modifications, aetiology, pathology and treatment as illustrated by Army data at home and abroad / by Francis H. Welch.

  • Welch Francis H.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Enteric fever : its prevalence and modifications, aetiology, pathology and treatment as illustrated by Army data at home and abroad / by Francis H. Welch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    1867), the Sepoys in Ceylon, China, India, and Straits Settlements, have suffered from it, but in a much less ratio. In the majority of our foreign stations, during this period, the disease has been a constant though variable yearly factor of the sickness and mortality, but in some, as the Canadian Dominions, West Indies, Cape, Mauritius, Ceylon, Australia, China, Japan, and Straits Settlements, there are years of intermittence in the period when no disease was re- turned among the troops; and these facts are strongly antagonistic to climate as cause or any peculiar con- dition of station, soil or country. Taking the admission ratios only, Canada gives the lowest prevalence, followed closely by Home Stations, Australia and China, and at a longer inter- val in progressive advance by the Straits Settlements, New Zealand, Mauritius, Ceylon, Bombay, Nova Scotia, Madras, Cape* and Bengal, Gibraltar, West Indies, Ionian Islands, Malta, Bermuda, Japan, Cyprus. Taking the severity of the disease as indicated in the proportionate mortality to admissions, we get the stations arranged in progressive sequence, commenc- ing with the mildest form, as follows:—Japan, Canada and Australia, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, Ionian Islands, Home, New Zealand, Cape, Madras, Gibraltar, Straits Settlements, Malta, Bengal, West Indies, Mauritius, China, Bombay, Ceylon. It is clear that some of our foreign stations are more favourably placed than the troops at home, both as to amount and also character of disease. These 0 Did the statistics, however, include the year 1880, the Cape would be placed in a more unfavourable position.