Victorian Social Medicine: The Ideas and Methods of William FarrMedizinische Statistik / Geschichte (19. Jh.) / England. |
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... fever . From the records of the London Fever Hospital he obtained age - group case fatality rates for continued fevers and a figure for the average duration of fever cases . Applying these rates to the registered typhus deaths in 1848 ...
... fever . From the records of the London Fever Hospital he obtained age - group case fatality rates for continued fevers and a figure for the average duration of fever cases . Applying these rates to the registered typhus deaths in 1848 ...
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... fever , plague , yellow fever , and later cholera , that was at the heart of the debate over contagion . By defining contagion in the narrowest sense and by relying on common knowledge of the experience of communities with such diseases ...
... fever , plague , yellow fever , and later cholera , that was at the heart of the debate over contagion . By defining contagion in the narrowest sense and by relying on common knowledge of the experience of communities with such diseases ...
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... fever , especially when such exhalations are pent up in a close and con- fined apartment . The room of a fever - patient , in a small and heated apartment in London , with no perflation of fresh air , is perfectly analogous to a ...
... fever , especially when such exhalations are pent up in a close and con- fined apartment . The room of a fever - patient , in a small and heated apartment in London , with no perflation of fresh air , is perfectly analogous to a ...
Contents
A SCIENCE OF SOCIAL REFORM | 13 |
Farrs Political Liberalism | 23 |
Three THE GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE | 37 |
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