"Pandemic of Influenza 1918-19"

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Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects. No4

Preface

Section		Page
Cover and General Contents		i
Chief Medical Officer's Introduction		iv

PART 1 - Influenza in Great Britain and Ireland

Part 1: Contents		1-2
1	The History of Influenza in England,1658-1911	3
2	A General Statistical Study of the Influenzas of 1918-19 in the United Kingdom	35
3	Clinical Features of the Epidemics of 1918-19	66
4	The Bacteriology of the Influenzas of 1918-19	110
5	The Infectivity of Influenza	127
6	Natural Immunity and the Protection conferred by a previous Attack of Influenza	131
7	The relation between Meteorological Conditions and the Death Rate from Respiratory Diseases with particular reference to Influenza	150
8	Domestic Overcrowding and Influenza	164
9	The General and Special Prophylaxis of Influenza	173
10	A General Discussion of the Epidemiology of Influenza	182

PART 2 - Influenza in Foreign Countries, 1918-19

Part 2: Contents		197
1	Europe and the Western Hemisphere
	Chapter 1 Contents and Introduction	199
	Europe	204
	United States of America	281
2	Australasia and Parts of Africa and Asia, by Lieut.-Col. S. P. James, MD.	349

PART 3 - Appendicies

Appendicies: Contents		387
Appendix 1	Report on Incidence of Influenza in the University and Borough of Cambridge, and in the Friends' School, Saffron Walden	388
Appendix 2	Report on an Inquiry into the recent Epidemic of Influenza in the County Borough of Leicester	445
Appendix 3	Analysis of the results of a Block Census undertaken in Manchester in December 1918	456
Appendix 4	Report on the Epidemic of Influenza in Manchester, 1918-19.	471
Appendix 5	Report on Influenza amongst the employees of two firms of chemical manufacturers, Messrs. the United Alkali Company of Widnes, and Messrs the Castner Kellner Company of Runcorn, together with–for control purposes–certain figures relating to the incidence of the disease amongst Ironworkers	521
Appendix 6	Report on an Investigation of Epidemic Influenza in the County Borough of South Shields, 1919	529
Appendix 7	Report on an investigation of the incidence and effects of Influenza among the Population of Warrington (Lancs.)	539
Appendix 8	Analysis of an Influenza Census at Newcastle-upon-Tyne	556
Appendix 9	Summary of Results of an inquiry at Wigan	564
Appendix 10	Summary of Results of an Inquiry at Blackburn	567
Appendix 11	Extract from a Report on the incidence of Influenza on certain classes of Workers in the Southern Section of the Swansea Valley	573
Appendix 12	Note on the Periodicity of Influenza	575