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" I first visited, it was found that the great mass of the fever cases occurred in the low wynds and dirty narrow streets and courts, in which, because lodging was there cheapest, the poorest and most destitute naturally had their abodes. From one such... "
A report &c. [of the first annual festival of the Holy gild of st. Joseph ... - Page xliv
by Holy gild of st. Joseph - 1843
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 71

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 pages
...above statement by details too offensive to be transcribed : suffice it to say that from one locality 754, of about 5000 cases of fever which occurred in...the previous year, were carried to the hospitals. As a striking contrast to this result, Mr. Chadwick states that, when the kelp manufacture lately ceased...
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department ...

Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners, Edwin Chadwick - 1842 - 556 pages
...destitute naturally had their abodes. From one such locality, between Argyll-street and the river, "Î54 of about 5000 cases of fever which occurred in the...misery of the poor in Glasgow), the police magistrate, und others, we examined these wynds, and, to give an idea of the whole vicinity, I may state as follows:...
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department ...

Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners - 1842 - 542 pages
...poorest and most destitute naturally had their abodes. From one such locality, between Argyll-street and the river, 754 of about 5000 cases of fever which occurred in thes previous year were carried to the hospitals. In a perambulation on the morning of September 24th,...
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Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: The air we live in

Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - 422 pages
...: suffice it to say, that, from one locality, seven hundred and fifty-four, of about five thousand cases of fever which occurred in the previous year, were carried to the hospitals. As a striking contrast to this result, Mr. Chadwick states that, when the kelp manufacture lately ceased...
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Descriptive Essays, Volume 2

Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - 412 pages
...: suffice it to say, that, from one locality, seven hundred and fifty-four, of about five thousand cases of fever which occurred in the previous year, were carried to the hospitals. As a striking contrast to this result, Mr. Chadwick states that, when the kelp manufacture lately ceased...
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Speeches of the Earl of Shaftesbury ... Upon Subjects Having Relation ...

Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1868 - 466 pages
...cheapest, the poorest and most destitute naturally had their abodes. From one such locality, between Argyle Street and the river, 754 of about 5000 cases of fever...hospitals. In a perambulation on the morning of September 24, with Mr. Chadwick, Dr. Alison, Dr. Cowan (since deceased, who had laboured so meritoriously to...
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The Early Sociology of Health and Illness, Volume 1

Kevin White - 2001 - 312 pages
...above statement by details too offensive to be transcribed: suffice it to say that from one locality 754, of about 5000 cases of fever which occurred in...the previous year, were carried to the hospitals. As a striking contrast to this result, Mr. Chadwick states that, when the kelp manufacture lately ceased...
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