Essays on consumption : together with some clinical observations and remarks on pneumonia / by J. Edward Squire.

  • Squire, J. Edward (John Edward), 1855-1917.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Essays on consumption : together with some clinical observations and remarks on pneumonia / by J. Edward Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a deatli-rate of less than 2 per 1,000 for towns of under 5,000 inhabitants up to 5 per 1,000 in Paris. The same fact is seen in the difference between the death-rate for Consumption in the extra-Metropolitan portions of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey and Kent (15’75 per 1,000), and that of London, which is 21 per 1,000. So, too, we note a much higher death-rate from Con- sumption in the more central portions of London than is found in the outskirts. Not only was over-crowding found to favour the disease, but amongst the workers in certain trades it was especially prevalent. Even before the true nature of the disease was discovered, something had been done to prevent Consumption by checking over-crowding and by regu- lating certain dusty oecuj^ations. The means taken to prevent the metallic dust from file-making, needle-grind- ing and similar trades from filling the air of the work- rooms has had a most notable effect in diminishing the incidence of Consumption upon those engaged in these occupations. But this was not enough. Even before Koch’s dis- covery of the disease germ, several investigators had found that tubercular disease could be communicated from man to animals, and from one animal to another. For many generations there had been a popular feeling that Con- sumption was “ catching ”—a view occasionally shared by some physicians, as by Morgagni some two hundred years ago. This idea was now shown to be founded on facts, and is at present accepted by almost all the medical world. We have, then, to deal with Consumption as an
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