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Abstract of a paper on the Necessity for Isolating the Phthisical Insane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Eric France*
Affiliation:
London County Asylum, Claybury

Extract

I have no intention of tracing the history of tuberculosis in asylums through the official obscurity of the past fifty years. This point has already received careful investigation at the hands of Dr. Crookshank in the admirable essay he has recently published; nor are we here concerned with any comparison between the mortality from tubercle among asylum inmates and the mortality from tubercle among the general population, inasmuch as deductions drawn therefrom are liable, among other errors, to those fallacies which occur when two communities whose environment and susceptibility differ are compared as regards the mortality of any particular disease.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1900 

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References

(1) Journ. Meni. Sci., October, 1899.—Google Scholar

(2) City of Manchester M.O.H.'s Annual Report for 1898.—Google Scholar

(3) City of Sheffield, Special Report by M.O.H. on the Prevalence of Tuberculosis, 1899.—Google Scholar

(4) Journ. Meni. Sci., October, 1897.—Google Scholar

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* These figures do not include io doubtful cases.Google Scholar

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