[1227] P. Macgregor, Med. Chir. Trans. V. 436, obtained from Henry, of Manchester, the burials from measles at the Collegiate Church and St John’s Church for two years, 1812-13, which when compared with those abstracted by Percival from the former register for twenty years, 1754-74, showed a higher ratio of measles to the burials from all causes.
[1228] Cross, u. s.
[1229] Delagarde, Med. Chir. Trans. XIII. 163.
[1230] A. Campbell Monro, M.D., “Measles: an Epidemiological Study.” Chiefly from the Jarrow statistics. Trans. Epid. Soc. N. S. X. (1890-91), p. 94. The author connects the recent increase with the greater concourse of children to infant and elementary schools under the Education Act.
[1231] Rep. Reg.-Genl. LIV. p. xviii, and LV. p. xi. The explanation given is as follows: “When a county or other area has been visited by a severe epidemic [of measles] there is for several succeeding years scarcely sufficient material, in the shape of unprotected children, for another considerable outbreak, unless it be in very populous areas such as London or Liverpool; and in such places the disease is endemic.”
[1232] Buchan and Mitchell, Journ. Scot. Meteor. Soc. July, 1874, p. 194.
[1233] Ogle, in the 47th Report of the Registrar-General (for 1884), p. xv.
[1234] Cited by Hirsch, Geogr. and Histor. Pathology. Eng. transl. III. 28.
[1235] Harl. MSS. No. 2378. Moulton’s This is the Myrour or Glasse of Health, circa 1540, is in the main a printed reproduction of this manuscript prescription-book. The same receipt which is “for ye kink” in the one, is “for the chyncough” in the other (formula LXXIX.).
[1236] “Sycknesses happenynge to children:—When they be new borne, there do happen to them sores of the mouth called aphte, vometyng, coughes, watchinge, fearefulness, inflamations of the nauelle, moysture of the eares. When they brede tethe, ytchinge of the gummes, fevers, crampes and laskes. When they waxe elder, than be they greved with kernelles, opennesse of the mould of the head, shortnesse of wynde, the stone of the bladder, wormes of the bealy, waters, swellynges under the chynne, and in Englande commonly purpyles, measels and small pockes.”