House-drainage, sewerage and sewage disposal in relation to health / by Louis C.Parkes.

  • Parkes, Louis Coltman, 1857-1942.
Date:
1909
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Credit: House-drainage, sewerage and sewage disposal in relation to health / by Louis C.Parkes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The reduction in the death-rate from phthisis has been a notable one, and characterised by exceeding steadiness from one five-year period to another; but little is known with certainty as to the causes of the diminution. There ENGLAND AND WALES Annual Death-rates per Million of the Female Population in Groups of Years from Puerperal Fever 200 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 . 1876-80 1881-85 1886-90 1891-95 1896190 0 1901-05 1906-07 X / / are probably a variety of causes at work; but to im- provements in domestic and municipal sanitation may fairly be ascribed some portion of the decline in phthisis mortality. The septic diseases—by which is understood Erysipelas, Septicaemia, Pyaemia, Phlegmon, Phagedsena, and other