Facts and suggestions on the registration of disease / by Benjamin W. Richardson.

  • Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward, (1828-1897)
Date:
1862
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Credit: Facts and suggestions on the registration of disease / by Benjamin W. Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Counties. Stations. Observers. Portsmouth andOdiham Mr. Moyle. Dr. Lake. Drs.McI ntyre&Jackson. Mr. A. Haviland. Dr. Brown. Messrs. Rigden & Reid, and nine observers by Mr. Haffenden. It would take up too much of the time of the Association to give the particulars of the whole of the materials collected by these inde- fatigable observers. Their labours would make up, indeed, a volume of some 300 closely-printed octavo pages. I would, however, claim permission to olFer a brief account of the working of this volun- tary scheme, I may observe, then, that with care on the part of the collection, the reports were obtained with a regularity and precision which I had by no means expected, and that in the neigh- bourhood of the stations no material fact relating to the disorders was omitted. In many cases, moreover, all the additional parti- culars asked for were supplied with the greatest care. Meteorological records were kept by several of the observers, and the influences of the various meteorological conditions on the progress of existent diseases were accurately noted. In many cases, also, the diseases of the inferior animals were regularly given, and connexions were traced as occurring between diseases of the chest in the human subject and in the cattle of neighbouring parts. Some of these facts, affirmative in kind, were of great value, as tending to show that pleuro-pneumonia in the inferior animals is usually co-existent with diseases in man of an inflammatory exudative character taking on an epidemic type. In a vast number of cases evidences of the origin of diseases from local causes were cited with a circumstantiality which was irre- sistibly conclusive, and over and over again the subsidence of epidemics on the removal of such producing causes was clearly demonstrated. The occurrence of new forms of disease, and of peculiarities of types in diseases common to the neighbourhood, were supplied with much fidelity. Thus, the fact that diphtheria was present in England was first communicated to me by Mr, Rigden, of Canterbury, and was published by Mr. Hafienden, of Canter])ury, in his quarterly statement Swansea; Dr. Barker, Bedford; Dr. Williams, Asplcy Guise; Mr. Stedman, Sharnbrook; Mr. Laver, Colchester; Messrs. Spurgeon and Stear, Saffron VValden; Mr. Rogers, Newport Pagnell; Mr. Dalby, Wellingborough ; Dr. Crowfoot, Beccles; Dr. Vincent, East Durham; Dr. Bailey, Thetford; Mr. A. Freer, Stourbridge; Mr. Houghton, Dudley; Dr. Thomson, Burton-on-Trent; Mr. Swann, Barrowden; Dr. Hole, Wisbeach ; Mr. Cartwright, Oswestry ; Mr! Eddowes, Pontesbury; Dr. Robertson, Nottingham ; Dr. Williams, Wrexham • Dr. Motfat, Hawarden; Mr. Thorpe, Stavely; Dr. Lowe, Lincoln; Dr. West' Alford; Mr. Bickerton, Liverpool; Mr. Spinks, Warrington; Mr. Hussey] Wigan; Mr. Pendlebury, Bolton; Mr. Proctor, York; Mr. Radcliffe, Bramley! (now of London;) Mr. Todd, West Auckland; Mr. Summers, Rothbury; Dr'. Spence, Lerwick. '