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    6 FEVEB, IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS.

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    from slay that ing every putrid yards heap blood of of Montfaucon emp rubbish loyed , for . however refining It must offensive sugar not is be , , or contained can supposed from generate the in , either horse the - ,

    poison bad smell of . enteric The pois fever on , itself or that may this be poison inodorous , although , in to every most the it is associated with fetid Free

    cases atmosp , here or constant dilution gases in running . . _. . water exposure may not only render the poison inoperativebut altogether prevent its

    formation . Thus we account for , the circumstance may that no excessive outbreak of fever occurred in London in 1858 in , connexion with

    , the Murchison unusually ives filthy the and history offensive of condition several formidable of the Thames outbreaks . " Dr of .

    enteric fever g which appeared to be solely due to the entrance of sewer taminated gases in , into the same the infected way . In houses each , case and the to o the utbreak use of was water stopped

    conby T the hus removal fever of is the the suspected most formidable cause . of the four varieties of

    Continued yp Feverfrom its fatal and highly contagious character . It has The been Malignant last long name Fever known , was , Jay under introduced l or the Gaol title by Fever s Hi , ppocrates Contag , Irish ious to A F gue define ever , or , a Putrid confused Typhus or .

    state of the intellect with a tendency to stupor . The historical / account of the idemics of typhus given by Dr . Murchison is both

    curious and instructive ep . The two most recent epidemics in London , those of 1856 and 1861 serve as good illustrations of the effect of

    disasters artificial scarcity of the Crimean among , the campai poor gn . of had In the the produced case of a the stagnation class firs out t , the in of

    the trade employment which idemic ; threw and was in attributed many 1861 , when hundreds to there the distress had been working among no failure the of poor crops of ,

    London ep consequent upon the organised system of strikes . The distress of London , in the by provinces the arrival caused of labourers an incre from ase in the the country poor population . Typhus

    being seems to comparativel find , its most rare congenial on the habitat Continent " in and Britain unknown and Ireland in the ,

    tropics of . 3456 It is patients , for the y admitted most part into , a disease the London of , adult Fever life Hosp —the ital mean for

    ten age ages ye of ars fifteen , being and 29- twenty 33 years -five . . Half Epidemics the cases , prevalent of t occurred yphus in hav between the e occurred spring the

    at and all end seasons of winter , but sporadic than at cases other are more time . Intemperance , mental any and bodilfatigueand previous illnesses , all act as predisposing

    causes deficient proved . almost But alimentation y by to far demonstration , the . most Dr . Murchison powerful by Dr . Alison of says all that are of Edinburg destitution this has h , been who and

    entered fully into the subject during the discussion , which preceded Scotland

    the introduction nature of the the typ poor hus laws poison into is almost comp . letely uixknowru

    6 Feveb, In Its Social Aspects.

    6 _FEVEB , IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/6/