Contributions to the etiology of continued fever, or, An investigation of various causes which influence the prevalence and mortality of its different forms / by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Contributions to the etiology of continued fever, or, An investigation of various causes which influence the prevalence and mortality of its different forms / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I think, then, it may be concluded that typhus and relapsing fever are, for the most part, confined to the poor ; but that typhoid makes no distinction between one class and another. VII. Localities of London in which each form of Fever is most prevalent. In order to form some opinion upon this point, the returns of no hospital could be better suited than those of the London Fever Hospital, inasmuch as its patients are derived from every district of the metropolis. It is true that, from various circumstances, some districts send in a larger proportion of their fever cases into the hospital than others, so that the returns do not correctly indicate the amount of fever prevalent in each district; yet those cases which are admitted from each locality, furnish a very fair criterion forjudging of the form of fever there most prevalent. In order, then, to render the returns of the Fever Hospital available for the purpose in question, I have constructed Table XIII, in which London is divided into districts, and the number and proportion of the different forms of fever admitted from each district are given. The area and population of each district are also shown in the table.1 1 These have been copied from the Weekly Returns of the General Board of Health.