An historic sketch of the causes, progress, extent, and mortality of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 : with numerous tables, official documents, and private communications, illustrative of its general history and of the system of management adopted for its suppression / by William Harty.

  • Harty, William, 1781-1854.
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An historic sketch of the causes, progress, extent, and mortality of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 : with numerous tables, official documents, and private communications, illustrative of its general history and of the system of management adopted for its suppression / by William Harty. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Harty on contagious fever

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Exhaustive treatment based on statistical information drawn from official records and private communications. Examines the typhus epidemics in Ireland of 1817, 1818, and 1819, and compares them to the epidemic of 1741. Concentrates on the epidemiological aspects, using primary sources

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Dublin : published by Hodges and M'Arthur ; London : By Hurst, Robinson, and Co. F. and G. Underwood, Burgess and Hill, and John Callow, 1820.

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xvi, 5 unnumbered pages, xviii-xxix, 1 unnumbered page, 220 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 292 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of folding plates : illustrations, frontispiece, map ; 22 cm

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Frontispiece epidemiological map of Ireland
Spine title: "Harty on contagious fever."
Erratum: final contents page

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