[1022] John Heysham, M.D. “An Abridgement of Observations on the Bills of Mortality in Carlisle, 1779-1787,” in Hutchinson’s History of Cumberland. 2 vols. Carlisle, 1794, and separate reprint, Carlisle, 1797; also reprinted in Appendix to Joshua Milne’s Treatise on the Valuation of Annuities. London, 1815, pp. 733-752.
[1023] See Loveday’s Diary of a Tour, 1732, p. 120.
[1024] Gent. Magaz. 1755, p. 595. In a parish near Glasgow, Eaglesham, eighty children are said to have died of smallpox in 1713. Chambers, Domest. Annals, III. 387.
[1025] Robert Watt, M.D., Treatise on the History, Nature and Treatment of Chincough ... 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. Glasgow, 1813.
[1026] This high mortality was probably caused by the epidemic agues of 1780, which specially affected Lincolnshire.
[1027] In 1802 the smallpox epidemic recurred, with 33 deaths. In 1801 there was one death.
[1028] Barker and Cheyne, u. s.
[1029] James Sims, M.D., Observations on Epidemic Disorders. London, 1773.
[1030] Two papers on Fever and Infection, 1763, p. 112.
[1031] Medicina Nautica.