Fever in agricultural districts : being a report on cases of fever occuring in the parish of Great Horwood, in the county of Buckingham / by Henry W. Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Fever in agricultural districts : being a report on cases of fever occuring in the parish of Great Horwood, in the county of Buckingham / by Henry W. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fatal termination. This termination has, as is very usual in this form of Fever, been preceded by haemorrhage more or less severe. Death has taken place in the second or the third week, or at a much later period. Partial convalescence sometimes lingers on for many weeks. With respect to the fatal cases recorded by Mr. Wyn- ter, it is notable that the mortality has been rather less among the parish patients than among those who were in somewhat better circumstances.. Many of the lighter cases, indeed, have, under his proper manage- ment, stopped in the first week. In the spring of this year the disease, which began at Michaelmas last year, appeared to abate, to be renewed in May and June. Presuming that Medical details will here be out of place, I proceed to state what I could learn as specially notable concerning the mode of origin and spread of the disease. Course of the Disease. 10. As far as can be traced now, either with the as- sistance of Mr. Wynter or of Mr. Newham, it would appear that the first case appearing about Michaelmas in last year occurred in one of the best houses in the place. Popular opinion traces its origin to Buckingham. The person in question had been there, but without known intercourse with any Pever patient: I understand that there was much Fever in Buckingham at that time. 11. The second case was in the family of a servant who lived in the house where the first case originated. It was not in the person of that servant: the servant had but little to do with the first case; and her sister who was taken ill had not, I am told, been away from