A new view of the infection of scarlet fever, illustrated by remarks on other contagious disorders / By William Macmichael.

  • William Macmichael
Date:
1822
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Credit: A new view of the infection of scarlet fever, illustrated by remarks on other contagious disorders / By William Macmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    very valuable statistical work *, lately pub- lished by order of the House of Commons, ciroisiacf to gi^wrirr/ri jEyija jssnniE iwxcnr urns' that in 1820 the annual mortality was only one in fifty-eight. This increase in the duration of human life is attributable to various causes, among which the most prominent are, the better food and clothing of the poorer classes, the more temperate habits that prevail pretty generally throughout all orders of society, the entire disappearance or mitigated se- verity of many fatal diseases, the substitu- tion of vaccination for the small-pox, and the improved state of the practice of physic. It is obvious that whatever effect the last- mentioned cause has produced, will be visi- ble chiefly in the better treatment of those * Population and Parish Registry Returns for 1821.
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