Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States / compiled from the records ... January, 1819, to January, 1839 ; prepared under the direction of Thomas Lawson.
- Date:
- 1840
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States / compiled from the records ... January, 1819, to January, 1839 ; prepared under the direction of Thomas Lawson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![The following abstract is taken from the report upon the medical statistics of the British troops— | Jamaica. Nova Scotia & New Brunswick. | Bermudas. | Malta. Ionian Islands. | Gibraltar. Canada. Mauritius. Windward and lee- ward commands. | United Kingdom. 1 Cape of Good Hope. | Admissions from rheumatic affections annually per 1,000 of mean strength - * 29 30 33 34 344 38 40 46 49 50 57 The reporter directs attention to the fact that rheumatic diseases are less prevalent in the Mediterranean than in Canada and Nova Scotia, and that though some of the provinces of the Cape of Good Hope have occasionally been without rain for several years, these diseases are more frequent in the dry climate of that command than in the West Indies, where the condition of the atmosphere is as remarkably the reverse: yet have extreme cold and atmospheric vicissitudes, coupled with excess of moisture, been assigned as satisfactory causes for their prevalence. In the northern division of the United States, it has been seen that rheumatic diseases, like those of the lungs, obey in some measure the inflexions of the isotheral and isocheimal lines. [Note.—The latitudes and longitudes given in this book are generally taken from Tan- ner's Map of the United States.] / ERRATA. Page 29, continue the quotation from the word command'''' down to the word blast. Page 68, third line from bottom, for 6 feet read 18 feet. Page 264, twentieth line from the top, insert commma (,) between the words simply and with.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21977379_0351.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
