Try Anne Hardy, _The epidemic streets: infectious disease and the rise of
preventive medicine_ (Clarendon Press, 1993).
Gill C.
At 03:04 12/08/00 +0100, you wrote:
>I am hoping to do some work on changes in disease patterns in Wantage as
>the conditions of the drains improved. ( This may not work out. Its a
>working title for a project and will probably end up about something
>totally different. ) Has anybody come across a good introduction to the
>sort of basic diseases of the nineteenth century - typhus, typhoid that
>sort of thing.
>
>At the moment I am fascinated by the fact that smallpox was still a major
>hazard long after vaccination had been discovered.
>J E Knight
>14 Windsor Crescent
>East Hagbourne
>Dicot
>OX11 9LY
>
>
>
Dr Gill Cookson
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