Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records of World Cities, 1888-1912

by Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew Cliff

Book Overview

This book uses data collected in the American journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for some 350 cities from around the world to look at trends in global mortality at the turn of the twentieth century, a period that witnessed some of the most dramatic changes in city growth on an international scale. The diseases considered are diphtheria, enteric fever, measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and whooping cough--as well as death from all causes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052147860X
• ISBN13: 9780521478601
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"