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Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong ... To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott.

  • Francis Boott
Date:
1833-1834
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Credit: Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong ... To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1795 and 1798; and the last, which Bayley speaks of as the most fatal, destroyed only 2086 persons, or about one half the number that died of yellow fever, in either of the two years mentioned above, at Philadelphia. This comparative infrequency of yellow fever at New York is associated with a large proportion of cases bearing a very close analogy to typhus, as we shall see by the Bills of Mortality * for 1804, 1805, and 1806. It will be recollected that in 1805 yellow fever existed in the city, and that the deaths were stated to be about 300. The deaths in 1804 were 2064 TS0D Se 5 2552 S00 6+ 2225. The mortality from fevers in each year was 1804, 1805. 1806. Intermittent 5 Mi 7 Remittent . 9 0 9 wal 29. 296. : Bilious... 8 2 22 1] a? Malignant . 0 270 2 Typhus . . 20 56 81 Nervous . 27 hoa 19 78 12 Puatrid zr ..‘6 3 3 It appears from these tables, that in 1804 there were 22 deaths from fevers of a periodic type, and 53 from continued fever: that in 1805 there were 296 deaths from the former (principally yellow fever), and 78 from the latter: and that in 1806 29 deaths from the one, and 96 from the other: that in 1804, when no cases of yellow fever oc- curred, out of 75 deaths 53 were from typhus ; and * Med. Repos. vol. xi. p. 32. VOL. I. 2N