Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board [Great Britain]. 1865H.M. Stationery Office, 1866 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 15
Page 306
... Jedda ) and met with the strong northerly winds constantly blowing in the Red Sea at that time of the year . These facts are stated on the authority of Mr. Henry H. Calvert , then Her Majesty's Acting Consul for Jedda , upon information ...
... Jedda ) and met with the strong northerly winds constantly blowing in the Red Sea at that time of the year . These facts are stated on the authority of Mr. Henry H. Calvert , then Her Majesty's Acting Consul for Jedda , upon information ...
Page 307
... Jedda . † It is not known whether the pilgrims from Singapore , or any portion of them , proceeded at once to Mecca after reaching Jedda , or whether they remained in the latter town until the near approach of the days set apart for the ...
... Jedda . † It is not known whether the pilgrims from Singapore , or any portion of them , proceeded at once to Mecca after reaching Jedda , or whether they remained in the latter town until the near approach of the days set apart for the ...
Page 308
... Jedda , the commission found in the hospital there many sick who had been attacked with cholera , but who were recovering . Others had succumbed to the disease previous to the arrival of the commission . 66 At Mecca cholera prevailed ...
... Jedda , the commission found in the hospital there many sick who had been attacked with cholera , but who were recovering . Others had succumbed to the disease previous to the arrival of the commission . 66 At Mecca cholera prevailed ...
Page 309
... Jedda on the 10th May . At this time cholera was present at Jedda , although not in a severe form ; and a tendency to an extension of the disease was indicated by many persons being seized with vomiting and purging . Seven or eight ...
... Jedda on the 10th May . At this time cholera was present at Jedda , although not in a severe form ; and a tendency to an extension of the disease was indicated by many persons being seized with vomiting and purging . Seven or eight ...
Page 310
... Jedda from Suez , India , the Strait Settlements , Java , & c . , he estimated at between 50,000 and 52,000 . The caravans from the north and from various parts of Arabia , with four fifths of the inhabitants of Jedda and of Mecca ...
... Jedda from Suez , India , the Strait Settlements , Java , & c . , he estimated at between 50,000 and 52,000 . The caravans from the north and from various parts of Arabia , with four fifths of the inhabitants of Jedda and of Mecca ...
Common terms and phrases
accommodation adults Alexandria appeared APPENDIX attacked August back-to-back houses beds board of health borough building byelaw cellar bedrooms Cerebro-Spinal cesspools Cholera in Europe clean common lodging houses common lodging-houses Common Lodgings Act condition cottages Court crowding cubic feet deaths diarrhoea died diffusion of Cholera disease district drain dwellings epidemic filthy floor Greenock Hecla Hunter infection inhabitants inquiry inspection inspector of nuisances instances Jedda John July kitchen labourers Leeds Liverpool lodgers lodging-houses Mecca medical officer Meningitis middens mills mortality night Nuisances Removal Nuisances Removal Act observed occupied occurred October outbreak overcrowding owner patient persons pilgrims police Poor in Towns population present diffusion prevailed privy pulse quarantine Radcliffe Rag Trade rags registered rent Residence sanitary Sept September ship sick single rooms small-pox Southampton Street Swansea symptoms tenements typhus unfit vessel visited Vistula vomiting waterclosets week wife yard yellow fever
Popular passages
Page 15 - Against any such assumption two facts have been considered : first, that even healthy children, in proportion to their respective bodily weights, are about twice as powerful as adults in deteriorating the air which they breathe ; secondly, that the children will almost invariably have certain eruptive and other febrile disorders to pass through, from which adult life is comparatively exempt, and in which the requirement of space is greatly increased. And having regard to these two considerations,...
Page 425 - It travels along the great tracks of human intercourse, never going faster than people travel, and generally much more slowly. In extending to a fresh island or continent, it always appears first at a sea-port. It never attacks the crews of ships going from a country free from cholera to one where the disease is prevailing, till they have entered a port, or had intercourse with the shore. Its exact progress from town to town cannot always be traced; but it has never appeared except where there has...
Page 40 - ... leakage or soakage from drains or cesspools, or otherwise, gets access, even in small quantity, to wells or other sources of drinkingwater, it infects, in the most dangerous manner, very large volumes of the fluid ; that in the above-described ways even a single patient with slight choleraic diarrhoea may exert a powerful infective influence on masses of population among whom perhaps his presence is unsuspected ; that things, such as bedding and clothing, which have been imbued with choleraic...
Page 58 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.
Page 379 - Dhu'lhajja, the pilgrims slay their victims in the said valley of Mina, of which they and their friends eat part, and the rest is given to the poor. These victims must be either sheep, goats, kine, or camels ; males, if of either of the two former kinds, and females if of either of the latter, and of a fit age.
Page 245 - You are at liberty to make use of these few remarks, to make them known to the profession, or the world, as you please : and wishing you every success in your future efforts, good health, and happiness, " I am, Sir, yours sincerely, " JOHN YEOMAN." " Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Licentiate of the Apothecaries
Page 379 - ... and their friends eat part, and the rest is given to the poor. These victims must be either sheep, goats, kine, or camels; males, if of either of the two former kinds, and females if of either of the latter, and of a fit age. ' The sacrifices being over, they shave their heads and cut their nails, burying them in the same place; after which the pilgrimage is looked on as completed: though they again visit the Caaba, to take their leave of that sacred building.
Page 380 - It is considered a meritorious act to give away the victim without eating any portion of its flesh. Parties of Takruri might be seen sitting vulture-like, contemplating the sheep and goats; and no sooner was the signal given, than they fell upon the bodies, and cut them up without removing them. The surface of the valley soon came to resemble the dirtiest slaughter-house, and my prescient soul drew bad auguries for the future.
Page 14 - ... overcrowded' dwellings, I mean those where dwellers are in such proportion to dwelling-space that no obtainable quantity of ventilation will keep the air of the dwelling-space free from hurtfully large accumulations of animal effluvium — cases where the...
Page 14 - ... as is rather bestial than human. To be subject to these influences is a degradation which must become deeper and deeper for those on whom it continues to work. To children who are born under its curse it must often be a very baptism into infamy.