Add to ORKGTyphoid fever records for Hobart during the nineteenth century are examined and the summer of 1887/88 identified as the second year of a 5 year epidemic cycle. Three factors are used to explain the change from endemic to epidemic typhoid in the 1880s. Firstly, there was a sequence of hot, dry summers that affected water quality and the amount of water available for the cleansing of street gutters. Secondly, there were changes to the system of disposal of excrement from cesspits to poorly organised pail and single pan schemes which led to the casual disposal of sewerage in the street gutters. Thirdly the population increase of the 1880s followed 25 years of stagnation and led to overcrowding in existing, often deteriorated buildings and the ...
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Typhoid fever records for Hobart during the nineteenth century are examined and the summer of 1887/8...
At the meeting of the Intercolonial Medical Congress at Melbourne, in 1889, the subject of typhoid ...
During the years 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1891, the City of Hobart, in common with the principal citie...
In the nineteenth century boosters claimed that Tasmania was the Sanatorium of the Australian coloni...
On August 29, 1912, I was requested by the Board of Health of the city of Lincoln to make an investi...
Investments in water and sanitation systems are believed to have led to the decline in typhoid fever...
© 2011 Natasha Lee SzuhanFocusing on the natural, settlement and disease ecologies, I present the st...
--London was one of the most rapidly expanding cities in the world in the nineteenth century, but th...
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This paper presents a new analysis of the contribution of particular causes of death to the decline ...
Epidemic typhus is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitt...
Two corollaries of the rapid growth of Sydney, New South Wales, during the nineteenth century were d...
Typhoid fever records for Hobart during the nineteenth century are examined and the summer of 1887/8...
At the meeting of the Intercolonial Medical Congress at Melbourne, in 1889, the subject of typhoid ...
During the years 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1891, the City of Hobart, in common with the principal citie...
In the nineteenth century boosters claimed that Tasmania was the Sanatorium of the Australian coloni...
On August 29, 1912, I was requested by the Board of Health of the city of Lincoln to make an investi...
Investments in water and sanitation systems are believed to have led to the decline in typhoid fever...
© 2011 Natasha Lee SzuhanFocusing on the natural, settlement and disease ecologies, I present the st...
--London was one of the most rapidly expanding cities in the world in the nineteenth century, but th...
In Amsterdam, a major problem in dealing with cholera was the lack of knowledge. The cause of the di...
The malign contribution of northern industrial cities to the stagnation of national life expectancy ...
There was a marked rise in scarlet fever mortality in England and Wales in the mid-nineteenth centur...
Belgium was struck by cholera seven times in the nineteenth century. The epidemic of 1866 was the wo...
This paper presents a new analysis of the contribution of particular causes of death to the decline ...
Epidemic typhus is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitt...
Two corollaries of the rapid growth of Sydney, New South Wales, during the nineteenth century were d...