Treatise on the history, nature, and treatment of chincough : including a variety of cases and dissections. To which is subjoined, An inquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of children, and the numbers who have died under ten years of age, in Glasgow, during the last thirty years / by Robert Watt.

  • Robert Watt
Date:
1813
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Credit: Treatise on the history, nature, and treatment of chincough : including a variety of cases and dissections. To which is subjoined, An inquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of children, and the numbers who have died under ten years of age, in Glasgow, during the last thirty years / by Robert Watt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    at different seasons of the year, some idea may be formed from the following Table. It contains the same cases given formerly, but arranged ac- cording as the deaths happened in the different months. TABLE. January, - -- -- - 179 February, - 173 March, ------ 2O8 April, 179 May, 188 June, ]38 July, 89 August, 89 September, ----- 9§ October, 129 November, 158 December, 189 Total, 1817 From this Table it would appear that March has been the most fatal month; and that fewer die in the months of July, August, and Septem- ber, than in any other part of the year. It will be seen by the Tables at the end of this £