Report on the geographical distribution of fever ("typhus" of the registrar general) for the two decennial periods 1841-60, 1861-70 within the area of the combined sanitary authorities,in the counties of Northampton, Leicester, Rutland and Bucks., read ... July 11, 1874 / by Alfred Haviland.

Northamptonshire Combination of Sanitary Authorities.

Date:: [1874?]

Credit: Report on the geographical distribution of fever ("typhus" of the registrar general) for the two decennial periods 1841-60, 1861-70 within the area of the combined sanitary authorities,in the counties of Northampton, Leicester, Rutland and Bucks., read ... July 11, 1874 / by Alfred Haviland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$(Enclosure.) Gentlemen, Cardiff, 4 November 1869. In leieience to the lime juice on board the ship “ Royal Visitor” per last voyaoe from Cardifi to Point de Galle, and from thence fo Rangoon and back to Falmouth fo^ orders I could notsay as to the exact quantity of lime juice which was left from the previous voyao-e • but; the lime juice was served out the whole of the voyage after being at sea 10 days, and theie never was any complaints made about the lime juice nor the provisions the whole of the voyage. As for myself and officers, we veiy seldom took any at all. As for lime juice, 1 do not believe it will keep off scurvy, whatever other gentlemen may think to the centiary. Those men that had the scurvy with me. on the last voyage was all more or less injured in the hurricane which we encountered in !at. 34° S., long?30° E.; and those injuries turned into scurvy before we got home; the ship, after losing all the bulwark*, kept her decks constantly full of water whenever there'was any wind. If we had an ordinary passage I do not believe we should have had any signs of scurvy in the ship at all. o the Secretary of Board of Trade. I remain, &c. (signed) J. Llewellyn. Messrs. Hughes 8$ Co. to Board of Trade. (M. 10,070.) Health of Crews. S11’’ i Menai Bridge, 24 November 1869. He beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 23rd cuiwen (u. 1 essed to Messrs. R. and R. Davies), referring to previous correspondence relative to the outbreak of scurvy on board our ship “Royal Visitor,” anc enclosing copy of your surveyor’s report, dated Swansea, 13th instant, touching ttie accommodation for crew in this vessel. In reply, beg to say, we are at af times anxious to do everything we can for the health of the crew, and anything we can do to prevent the outbreak of scurvy again shall have our careful attention ; but for many years previous to the alteration in the law respecting nme juice, we have not had a single case of scurvy on board any of our vessels Me attiibute the outbreak of scurvy in the “ Royal Visitor,” in part, to the tempestuous weather she encountered whilst off the Cape of Good Hope upor her homeward voyage, sweeping away her bulwarks, &c.t and leaving her crew constantly in water, but chiefly owing to the lime juice, as we have every reason to believe it does not answer the purpose for which it is intended, as used under the new Act; and are strengthened in this belief by the fact of our bavins omy a few days hack received a report from the master of one of our vessels al bt. Helena, on Ins way home from India, in which he informs us several of his crew were in the same stale, viz., suffering from scurvy ; it is our intention to in¬ vestigate this case on the ship’s arrival, and to report thereon. Btit to 1 etui 11 to the “ Royal Visitor,’ we have to complain at receiving- such a report as the above, when the vessel is just on the point of leaving port with her outward cargo. She arrived in London 011 the 2nd of October last; your surveyoi went on board and examined her—made no recommendation. She 'wa-' put m gia\ing: dock, and there re-caulked and re-coppered. Your surveyor niwei went near her ; had he done so, he would have found Lloyd’s and other surveyors there to join him in any recommendations he might make, and any alterations required could have been easily effected ; but after the ship leaves amves1at C?r<Jlff> '» the absence of our foreman carpenter, another f. JOan> makes recommendations, which we consider as far as Ail the tb ft] • 6m SUC,aS f!leaU,inS forecastle deck), quite uncalled for. our a' ilitv t' £S ll!mi<’d J-V him had been done by us before, to the best of beendVkiv0n-Tthe f.U?°f3 lntended by the Act; and even had thev for antlof! f llCi’ We thmk they are not)> e should have been very thankfu'l the reLtlggf r°m y°ur, surveyOT; but, as before named, we do complain, tue epoit of your surveyor (although written on the 13th instant) was not for- rioi s tS e?l iCr’ if vfsel 'S now lcad>' for sea> and to detain her will be a ■4. loss to us.. We, however, forward a copy of said report by tin's post to ; a k *.-i > G 2 Messrs.$