The etiology of typhoid fever and its prevention : being the Milroy lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1902 / by W.H. Corfield.
- William Henry Corfield
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The etiology of typhoid fever and its prevention : being the Milroy lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1902 / by W.H. Corfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![rate of mortality from typhoid fever (not including] simple continued fever) per million persons living in England and Wales and in London from 1871 to 1900, which demonstrates in a graphical manner the remarkable diminution of the death-rate from this disease in England and Wales since 1875, and in London since 1883. It will be noticed that the only years in which the typhoid death-rate in London was higher than that in the country generally were the] three years 1881-82-83. I have already referred to the remarkable diminution of the death-rate from typhoid fever at Munich owing to the improvements carried out under the advice of the late Professor Pettenkofer, a diminution which is even far more remarkable than the diminution in London and in this country generally. The diminution at Munich was, in fact (in the mean annual mortality per million inhabitants), as follows :— 1851-60 .. 1861-70 .. 1871-80 .. 1881-90 .. 1891-1900 .. 2024 1478 1167 160 52* From a paper on the “Diminution of Typhoid Fever in Paris, ” published in the Revue Munioipale of Dec. 29th, 1900, I find that the death-rate from that disease per 1,000,000 persons living in that city has diminished in a very notable manner, as shown by the following figures. In 1882 it was 1430 ; from 1883 to 1888 it was 581 ; from 1889 to 1894 it was 293 ; and from 1895 to 1900 it was 172. And this in spite of a recrudescence in 1899 and 1900, which was brought into prominent notice on account of the great Exhibition held in Paris in 1900, but which was shared by London and England generally (see chart), and would not have been specially noticed had it not been for the Exhibition. I hope that these lectures may be of some permanent use, especially as a concise summary of reports of outbreaks of typhoid fever scattered throughout public health literature. * This figure has been kindly supplied to me by Professor Halm, of Munich. Printed at The Lancet Office, 423, Strand, W.U.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24862927_0179.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
