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A History of the County of Sussex
… must be kept at the pest-house while it was inhabited by smallpox victims, and decided, if a town tax to meet the cost …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 17279, and in 1741 144 and 1758 there were outbreaks of smallpox. 145 In 1832 a board of health was formed to counter …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Sunday morning. In the following year, when there was a smallpox epidemic, Dawson was to visit the sick and to do …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of 1854, there were epidemics, and it was probably the smallpox outbreak of 1871, in which 166 died, that finally … of the main hospital and the opening of a separate smallpox hospital in 1897. Both the voluntary hospital and … Coventry of over 150. A proposal in 1908 to convert Pinley Smallpox Hospital into a sanitorium was abandoned because the …
A History of the County of Leicester
… step by an outbreak of scarlet fever and by the fear of a smallpox epidemic. The buildings were intended to be … defeated the efforts of medical science. In the case of smallpox the town became famous for its refusal to adopt the … had been generally accepted, and in 18634, when a smallpox epidemic occurred in the town, nearly 4,000 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of surrounding areas. In his view the incidence of smallpox and infant mortality in the congested areas was …
A History of the County of York
… suffered constantly from epidemics: between 1715 and 1735 smallpox, measles, and influenza followed or accompanied one …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was seriously checked in the 18th century, when the smallpox epidemic of 1704 nearly ruined it. Grass grew in the … in 1752, when as a result of a virulent outbreak of smallpox the pest-house was built. 495 The cholera outbreak … were reports of typhus fever. In 1855 several cases of smallpox occurred in the workhouse. 497 An act of 1848 had …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… (Brasenose College), 1736; Foster, Alumni. He died of smallpox, unmarried, on 16 Feb. 17434; his monument in …
Survey of London
… carriages and vans, the water supply was exiguous, and smallpox was ten times more fatal than in the surrounding …