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Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records of World Cities, 1888-1912 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) [Paperback]

Andrew Cliff (Author), Peter Haggett (Author), Matthew Smallman-Raynor (Author)

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Publication Date: August 28, 1998 | ISBN-10: 052147860X | ISBN-13: 978-0521478601

This book uses data collected in the American journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for some 350 cities from around the world to look at trends in global mortality at the turn of the twentieth century, a period that witnessed some of the most dramatic changes in city growth on an international scale. The diseases considered are diphtheria, enteric fever, measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and whooping cough--as well as death from all causes. The data have never before been systematically analyzed and they give important insights into patterns of mortality from these diseases.

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"...an important contribution to the still thin area of historical epidemiology..." Vincent J. Knapp, American Historical Review

"This work, which folds together the fields of geopgraphy, history, demography, economics, epidemiology, and public health (among others), is interdisciplinary history at its best." Kenneth F. Kiple, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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This book uses American data collected for some 350 cities from around the world to look at trends in global mortality at the turn of the twentieth century, a period which witnessed some of the most dramatic changes in city growth on an international scale. The diseases considered are diphtheria, enteric fever, measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and whooping cough--as well as death from all causes. The data have never before been systematically analysed and they give important insights into patterns of mortality from these diseases.

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Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 28, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 052147860X
ISBN-13: 978-0521478601
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
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Throughout history, the fear of disease has been well founded. Read the first page

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six marker diseases, biproportionate scores, quinquennia for the period, weekly abstract, ten infectious diseases, weekly mortality tables, death rate intensity, international disease surveillance, ten world regions, historical urban development, immunisation coverage, stippled histogram, nearest neighbour graph, notifiable infectious diseases, median death rate, global time series, crisis hypothesis, sanitary information, six infectious diseases, supervising surgeon general, crisis hypotheses, quinquennial periods, reporting completeness, regional time series, average monthly temperatures range

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United States, New York, North America, British Isles, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Marine Hospital Service, Middle America, San Francisco, Diphtheria Enteric, World Health Organization, Rest of World, Measles Scarlet, Kansas City, Registrar General's Weekly Return, Tuberculosis Whooping, Quarantine Act, Quinquennium Figure, New Orleans, Public Health Reports, Mexico City, United Kingdom

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This book cites 96 books:

International Mortality Statistics by Michael Rowland Alderson on 22 pages
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease by Kenneth F. Kiple on 11 pages
The City in Late Imperial Russia (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) by Michael F. Hamm on 5 pages
Summary Volume by Great Britain on 4 pages
Control of Communicable Diseases in Man, 14th Edition; by Abram (Editor); Beneson on page 2, page 86, and Back Matter

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