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The epidemic streets : infectious disease and the rise of preventive medicine, 1856-1900 /

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This title provides a study of death and disease in the 19th century, and how Victorian society coped with infectious disease. It tells how a century ago whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and many other diseases ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hardy, Anne, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases > England > London > History > 19th century.
Medicine, Preventive > England > London > History > 19th century.
Epidemiology > England > London.
Communicable Diseases > history
Preventive Medicine > history
Maladies infectieuses > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine préventive > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Épidémiologie > Angleterre > Londres.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
Communicable diseases
Epidemiology
Medicine, Preventive
England > London
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Whooping Cough
  • 2. Measles
  • 3. Scarlet Fever
  • 4. Diphtheria
  • 5. Smallpox
  • 6. Typhoid
  • 7. Typhus
  • 8. Tuberculosis
  • 9. The Impact of Local Preventive Medicine
  • Appendix. Statistical Note
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Last Page.