[356] In addition to what has been said on this point already, for particular epidemics, I shall give a statement for ordinary years by Dr Carrick, of Bristol, in his ‘Medical Topography’ of that city: Trans. Prov. Med. Assocn. II. (1834), p. 176. “Continued fever is common enough, but nine-tenths of the cases are of a simple character, terminating for the most part within seven days, and unaccompanied with anything more serious than slight catarrhal or rheumatic disorder. Typhus gravior is rare—much more so than might be expected.”
[357] Charles West, M.D., “Historical Notices designed to illustrate the question whether Typhus ought to be classed among the Exanthematous Fevers.” Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. 1840, April, p. 279.
[358] Alexander Kilgour, M.D., ibid. Oct. 1841, p. 381.
[359] Cowan, “Vital Statistics of Glasgow,” Journ. Statist. Soc. III.
[360] Cases at Mile-End Fever Hospital.
[361] Including 906 male fever-patients at Albion Street temporary hospital.
[362] Blackwood’s Magazine, March, 1838, p. 289.
[363] In 1819 the Irish in Glasgow had been estimated at 1 in 9·67: in 1831 the Irish part of the population had risen to 1 in 5·69. Dr Cowan, however, said of them: “From ample opportunities of observation, they appear to me to exhibit much less of that squalid misery and habitual addiction to the use of ardent spirits than the Scotch of the same grade.”
[364] Robert Cowan, M.D., “Statistics of Fever in Glasgow for 1837.” Lancet, April 10, 1839.
[365] James Arrott, M.D., Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ., Jan. 1839, p. 121.