Second report on quarantine : yellow fever, with appendices / General Board of Health.

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1852
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    CONTENTS. auses 5, • • 14, 16G, 17, 155, 22, 25, 169, 30, 168, ug the presence of the 39, 172, ; Second Report, &c. Mortality among British troops in West Indies, &e Resemblances between Yellow Fever and Cholera Yellow Fever not traceable to contagion Sporadic cases ...... Seclusion affords no protection . Advantages of removal from infected localities Non-transmission of Yellow Fever to other patients in hospitals Comparative Mortality in different localities, show localising conditions:— Of Overcrowding .... Of Filth Of Want of Drains and Bad Drains Of Dampness, Swamps, and Marshes Yellow Fever capable of being produced by these Alleged cases of Importation:— The “ Hankey,” at Grenada, 1793 The “ General Elliott,” at Martinique, 1796 The “ Dolphin,” at Cadiz, 1800 . The Transports at Gibraltar, 1810 The “ Fortune,” at Gibraltar, 1813 The “ Grand Turk,” at Barcelona, 1821 The “ Bann,” at Ascension, 1823 . The “ Eclair,” at Boa Vista, 1845 The “ Growler,” at Barbados, 1847 The “ Tentadora” and “ Duarte,” at Oporto The “ Dygden,” at Gibraltar, 1828 Inutility and Mischievousness of Quarantine Unsatisfactory results of Inquiries hitherto instituted Conclusions ..... 1851 119, 70, 182, 70, 83, 89, 89, 165, 214, 128, 130, 161, Pag* l 148 10 182 265 174 202 189 264 41 43 45 50 62 196 148 182 84 85 87 88 196 306 118 119 245 204 245 133 Appendix I. Report of Dr. Gillkkf.st Remittent type of the Disease Algid cases .... General History of the Disease Gibraltar, Epidemics at Board of Inquiry into Epidemic of 1828 Sanitary condition of Gibraltar . Hospital Orderlies, exemption of . Susceptible persons, exemption of. Meteorological influences notice of . 137 141, 197 . 145 . 146 153, 158 . 161 . 164 . 167 . 170 . 177