The Common Nature of Epidemics, and their relation to climate and civilization - Southwood Smith

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Their Common Nature	[1]
Are all Fevers:—e.g. Plague, Sweating Sickness, Cholera, &c.,	[2]
Rapidity of their Course	[4]
Warnings of their Approach	[5]
Periodicity of their Return	[8]
Are produced by the same Causes	[10]
Foul Air—Overcrowding	[12]
Attack Animals	[7], [13], [16], [65], [110]
Their Attendant Signs—Meteorology	[17]
Action of Air on the Blood	[19]
Theories of Epidemic Causes	[23]
Influence of Climate	[25]
Mortality within the Tropics	[29]
Their Relation to Civilization	[33]
State of England in the 14th Century	[35]
Improvements in the 15th Century	[41]
Prolongation of Life in the 17th and 18th Centuries	[45]
Disappearance of the Earlier Epidemics, e.g. Jail Fever, Sweating Sickness, Plague, Typhus-Gravior, &c.	[51]
Experience of the Model Dwellings	[54]
Sanitary Legislation and Works	[57], [129]
Epidemics are within Human Control	[58]

QUARANTINE—

Originated in the Belief that Epidemics spread exclusively by Contagion	[61]
Sanitary Measures the only Safeguards	[63]
Effects Attributed to Contagion	[67]
Inutility of Quarantine	[71]
Plague, Yellow Fever, Cholera, &c.	[73]
Mitigation of Disease by Migration, e.g. Tramps	[75]
Sanitary Regulation of Ships	[77]

CONTAGION—

Cholera averted at Baltimore	[79]
Cholera averted at Newcastle Barracks	[82]
Yellow Fever in the Eclair	[84]
Alleged Communication of Disease to Boa Vista, and Examination of Evidence	[96]
Alleged Importation of Disease by the Dygden into Gibraltar, and Examination of Evidence	[117]

APPENDIX.

Sanitary Works accomplished under the Public Health Act

THE COMMON NATURE