Chapter I: Typhus and Other Continued Fevers

The Epidemic Fever of 1661, according to Willis 4

Sydenham’s epidemic Constitutions 9

Typhus Fever perennial in London 13

The Epidemic Constitutions following the Great Plague 17

The Epidemic Fever of 1685-86 22

Retrospect of the great Fever of 1623-25 30

The extinction of Plague in Britain 34

Fevers to the end of the 17th Century 43

Fevers of the seven ill years in Scotland 47

The London Fever of 1709-10 54

Prosperity of Britain, 1715-65 60

The Epidemic Fevers of 1718-19 63

The Epidemic Fevers of 1726-29: evidence of Relapsing Fever 66

The Epidemic Fever of 1741-42 78

Sanitary Condition of London under George II. 84

The Window-Tax 88

Gaol-Fever 90

Circumstances of severe and mild Typhus 98

Ship-Fever 102

Fever and Dysentery of Campaigns: War Typhus, 1742-63 107

Ship-Fever in the Seven Years’ War and American War 111

The “Putrid Constitution” of Fevers in the middle third of the
18th Century 120

Miliary Fever 128

Typhus Fever in London, 1770-1800 133

Typhus in Liverpool, Newcastle and Chester in the last quarter
of the 18th century 140

Fever in the Northern Manufacturing Towns, 1770-1800 144

Typhus in England and Scotland generally, in the end of the
18th century 151

Fevers in the Dearth of 1799-1802 159

Comparative immunity from Fevers during the War and high
prices of 1803-15 162

The Distress and Epidemic Fever (Relapsing) following the Peace
of 1815 and the fall of wages 167

The Epidemic of 1817-19 in Scotland: Relapsing Fever 174

The Relapsing Fever of 1827-28 181

Typhoid or Enteric Fever in London, 1826 183

Return of Spotted Typhus after 1831: “Change of Type.” Distress
of the Working Class 188

Enteric Fever mixed with the prevailing Typhus, 1831-42 198

Relapsing Fever in Scotland, 1842-44 203

The “Irish Fever” of 1847 in England and Scotland 205

Subsequent Epidemics of Typhus and Relapsing Fevers 208

Relative prevalence of Typhus and Enteric Fevers since 1869 211

Circumstances of Enteric Fever 216

CHAPTER II.

FEVER AND DYSENTERY IN IRELAND.

Dysentery and Fever at Londonderry and Dundalk, 1689 229

A generation of Fevers in Cork 234

Famine and Fevers in Ireland in 1718 and 1728 236

The Famine and Fever of 1740-41 240

The Epidemic Fevers of 1799-1801 248

The Growth of Population in Ireland 250

The Famine and Fevers of 1817-18 256

Famine and Fever in the West of Ireland, 1821-22 268

Dysentery and Relapsing Fever, 1826-27 271

Perennial Distress and Fever 274

The Great Famine and Epidemic Sicknesses of 1846-49 279

Decrease of Typhus and Dysentery after 1849 295