An historic sketch of the causes, progress, extent, and mortality of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland during the years 1817, 1818, and 1819
Subtitle: with numerous tables, official documents, and private communications, illustrative of its general history and of the system of management adopted for its suppression
By: by William Harty ..
Contributors: St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library; King's College London
Publisher: published by Hodges and M'Arthur; by Hurst, Robinson, and Co. F. and G. Underwood, Burgess and Hill, and John Callow
Published: 1820
Place of publication: Dublin; London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Diseases; Causes and theories of causation; Sources; Epidemics; Public health; Medical geography; Epidemiology; Medical climatology; Typhus fever; Communicable diseases; History
Other titles: Harty on contagious fever.
Description: Exhaustive treatment based on statistical information drawn from official records and private communications. Examines the typhus epidemics in Ireland of 1817, 1818, and 1819, and compares them to the epidemic of 1741. Concentrates on the epidemiological aspects, using primary sources.
Notes: Frontispiece epidemiological map of Ireland.

Spine title: "Harty on contagious fever."

Erratum: final contents page.

Includes bibliographical references.

This material has been provided by King ́s College London. The original may be consulted at King ́s College London.

King ́s College London.