A contribution to the climatological study of phthisis in Pennsylvania.

  • William Pepper
Date:
1887
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Credit: A contribution to the climatological study of phthisis in Pennsylvania. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    20. Does consumption run an acute or chronic course in your cases? 21. Do you know of any cases of incipient consumption apparently cured by comiuf? to or by going from your town or district (and, if so, wliat were the difterences of the spots)? 22. Is consumption, as you see it, caused or promoted hy hereditary influences (and in what percentage of cases) ? 23. Can consumption be apparently prevented from occurring in chil- dren so heretlitarily disposed, and by what means ? 24. Have you any evidence in support of or against the contagious or infectious character of consumption ? 25. Is malaria prevalent in your town? If so, is consumption spe- cially prevalent in the malarial districts? 2G. Is rheumatism prevalent in your town ? 27. Is pneumonia prevalent in your town ? 28. Is Bright’s disease prevalent in your town ? The following resolutions were adopted by the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at a regular meeting held at Harrisburg, November 11, 1885 : Resolved^ That this Board has learned with deep interest of the me- thodical and searching investigation into the territorial distribution of consumption in this State, now being prosecuted by Professor AVilliam Pepper; believing that it will not only add to our general knowledge of the causes of this most wide-spread and fatal of all diseases, but that it may also result in the discovery of regions of comparative exemption from its ravages within our own borders. Resolved^ That this Board bespeaks the cordial co-operation of physi- cians throughout the State in making this effort fruitful of results. Resolved^ That Professor Pepper be requested to put his deductions into such shape that the Board may be able to utilize them for the public good in its annual report. It will be seen that the above questions aim at securing informa- tion about the general climatic topographical and geological rela- tions of consumption, and especially about the influence of dijfferent local conditions rendering or tending to render the disease peculiarly rare or peculiarly prevalent; about the relations of occupation, race, and heredity to the occurrence and course of consumption and some other diseases as regards the above local and general causes. Consid- ering the amount of time and labor required to answer carefully, even in the briefest manner, so many questions as the above circular contains, 1 feel that the fact of having received 120 replies represent- ing 47 counties, many of them of elaborate character, is ample proof of the interest felt by the profession in this investigation, and calls for the warm expression of my thanks, which I now beg to make to
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