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... weekly average of deaths from dysentery in London - --- 32-40 Galen- Diarrhoea . Season summer disease - miliary sweat autumnal cholera of 1669 - quotation from Sydenham - Registrar General's Reports - table of mortality from diarrhoea ...
... weekly average of deaths from dysentery in London - --- 32-40 Galen- Diarrhoea . Season summer disease - miliary sweat autumnal cholera of 1669 - quotation from Sydenham - Registrar General's Reports - table of mortality from diarrhoea ...
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... Weekly Average for ten years , from 1844 to 1853 inclusive . Table II . - PHTHISIS , BRONCHITIS , and PNEUMONIA . Weekly Return for 1854 . Table III . - SMALL - POX , MEASLES , SCARLATINA , and TYPHUS . Weekly Return and Mean for ten ...
... Weekly Average for ten years , from 1844 to 1853 inclusive . Table II . - PHTHISIS , BRONCHITIS , and PNEUMONIA . Weekly Return for 1854 . Table III . - SMALL - POX , MEASLES , SCARLATINA , and TYPHUS . Weekly Return and Mean for ten ...
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... week in which the number of fatal cases from any disease is at the lowest , at the time when the mean temperature of the year is about its height ; and whilst the lower leg of the angle is horizontal , the upper one is carried up to the ...
... week in which the number of fatal cases from any disease is at the lowest , at the time when the mean temperature of the year is about its height ; and whilst the lower leg of the angle is horizontal , the upper one is carried up to the ...
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... Weekly Temperature . Average daily range of Thermometer . Spring Autumn Winter Summer 1971 51 ° .8 18.2 1914 42 ° .3 13.7 1872 38 ° .1 11.5 1745 58 ° .5 17.9 This table bears out the above observations , and tells us that phthisis was ...
... Weekly Temperature . Average daily range of Thermometer . Spring Autumn Winter Summer 1971 51 ° .8 18.2 1914 42 ° .3 13.7 1872 38 ° .1 11.5 1745 58 ° .5 17.9 This table bears out the above observations , and tells us that phthisis was ...
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... week . It must , however , be borne in mind that the actual state of the wind for the week in which great mor- tality occurs , may not have so much to do with the increase in the number of deaths as that which prevailed during the week ...
... week . It must , however , be borne in mind that the actual state of the wind for the week in which great mor- tality occurs , may not have so much to do with the increase in the number of deaths as that which prevailed during the week ...
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