Europe Northern And Western Asia India Ceylon Burma

Author : Andrew Davidson
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230076980
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Europe, Northern and Western Asia, India, Ceylon, Burma written by Andrew Davidson and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... have two departments comparatively free from both diseases. There is clearly no dominating antagonism between consumption and malaria, otherwise Rome should be among the districts where phthisis is less frequent; nevertheless the excessively malarious regions in Italy, as a rule, suffer in a less degree from pulmonary phthisis. The minor degrees of malarial prevalence have certainly no tendency to reduce the fatality from phthisis. Bronchitis and Pneumonia, which are classed together in the returns, cause in Italy an average death-rate of 461 per 10,000. Although pleurisy is not specially mentioned, it is doubtless included under the same heading. These three diseases gave rise, -in 1884, to 29'9 deaths per 10,000 living in England; from which it appears that acute diseases of the respiratory organs are considerably more fatal in Italy than in England. They are most fatal in the departments of Campania, Oalabria, and Piedmont, and least so in Sicily, Sardinia, Venetia, and Tuscany. Their prevalence is clearly not regulated by latitude. ' This includes general tuberculosis, tubercular meningitis, and consumption. As regards England, we include tubercular meningitis. Among the cities, Lucca, Palermo, and Bari delle Puglie are particularly favoured as respects exemption from this class of disease; while Naples and Turin show very high death-rates. Bronchitis, pleurisy, and acute pneumonia are distinctly cold weather diseases in Italy; the death-rate from both aH'ections show a decided rise in November, and a still more marked one in December. They are at their height in January, February, and March, and decline in frequency in April and May. Their minimum is attained in September. Hepatitis causes an average death-rate of 2'53 per 10,000. It...