The geographic distribution of disease in Great Britain.

  • Haviland, Alfred, -1903
Date:
1892
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Credit: The geographic distribution of disease in Great Britain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    part of the division with those of the eastern part of North Riding, we find the direction of the prevailing winds and the flow of the tidal wave the opposite to what takes place on the Cumbrian coast; we find also that the position of the high and low mortality districts is reversed. The sea inlet of the Solway Firth has a powerful influence on the ventilation of the country to the north-east; and Long- town, which is situated so as to be well flushed by the winds which blow up this inlet, has the lowest mortality in the division. All the districts in the doubly sheltered valley of the Eden have a high mortality [from heart disease] (p. 51). Ulrerston, the one district in the lake country belonging to the county of Lancaster in the North-Western Division (VIII.), wras amongst the southern exposed and low mor- tality group in 1851-60, consisting of Whitehaven, Bootle, Ulverston, and Kendal. Such were essential facts relating to heart disease in England and Wales during the ten years 1851-60, and its distribution in the Lake District, Cumberland, Westmorland, and part of Lancashire. The Geographical Distribution of Cancer among Females in the Divisions (1851-1860). We have seen, from the description of the map of the divisions illustrating the distribution of cancer, how singu- larly England and Wales were coloured; that the highest mortality divisions were in the south-east of England, and that this mortality decreased in belts until the extreme westerly and north-westerly divisions were reached, where the lowest mortality was to be found. This arrangement is coincident with the ascent from the preponderating more re- cent geological formations in the south-east, through the less recent, intermediate, or mesozoic, to the oldest, or paleozoic, in the north-west.