Epidemics and the Control of Disease around the 1840s

Epidemiology and Disease Management around the 1940's Andrea Barrett's "The Heat of the Ship" got a historically new approach to ship and disease in the mid-19th century. We are suffering from diseases such as dysentery, blisters, the heat of the ship. Another disease mentioned in the novel is huge, it seems to be the same as or similar to dengue fever and kara azar. Let me briefly explain these issues before moving on to the story role. Dysentery is caused by bacteria of Shigella spp.

It can not meet national health themes like ordinary infectious diseases. In the 1930s and 1840s there were three major infectious diseases from 1831 to 1833, including two epidemics of influenza and cholera. The main epidemic diseases such as influenza, typhus, typhoid, cholera etc. As F. H. Garrison observed, the epidemics of the 18 th century was "more isolated and isolated than before," and in the early nineteenth century diseases such as diphtheria and influenza were greatly reduced. Smallpox is a tragedy in the 18th century and seems to be managed by the new immunization law. Then in the mid - 1920s the UK saw a serious outbreak of smallpox and typhoid, and it is expected that plague will become turbulent over the next 20 years.

Historically, terrible epidemics have occurred over and over again. Several pandemics, such as smallpox, pest, influenza, etc. exist in history. Smallpox was eradicated in the world in 1980. In the 18 th century, the world's major trade route, several destructive cholera epidemics caused enormous infections. For example, one third to one half of people died of black death that hit Europe in 1347. In many towns, this pathological generation caught the progress of civilization.

What is fashion? This is short term, usually in weeks, the spread of infection rapidly. Which ratio constitutes a fashion? In case of meningitis, there are more than 15 cases per 100,000 people in 2 weeks. Our overall murder rate is less than 5 people per 100,000 people a year, the kill rate of certain guns is even lower. Please select a baseline. The average murder rate of this country since 1910 is 86. This is 26 years old since the beginning of this century. This decade is 68 years old. What is a baseline? Whichever baseline you select, there is no fashion. This is a fake. However, most people definitely think this is a fashion. Pew Research Center is tracking this. Below is the chart of the survey conducted in 2013.