The relation of ground water to disease / by Baldwin Latham.

  • Latham, Baldwin.
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[1890]
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    PROOF.] ■) I? THE RELATION OF GROUND WATER TO DISEASE. Bv BALDWIN LATHAM, M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S., F.S.S., F.S.L, &c., President, Royal Meteorological Society. [Read November 19th, 1890.] The work in which the Fellows of the Royal Meteorological Society are engaged is one of passing importance, having regard to Sie study of the causation of disease. The words written by John R. Arhuthnot, M.D., F.R.S., over a century and a half ago, are probably as applicable now as when written, when ho said that “ a history of facts or a journal of diseases “ compared with tho weather, which, if it should bo kept for any great “ period of time and in many places I will venture to affirm that mankind “ would arrive at more than a conjectural knowledge in this matter. Tho “ ancient physicians seem to have been more attentive to this than the “ moderns, and those of tho moderns who have attended to it have perhaps “ made no inconsiderable figure in their profession.” Various climatic conditions affect disease; and to got at the particular influence of any one condition it is necessary to differentiate between various causes. The variations in climatic condition are exti-emely diversified, and the study of their influence on disease should not extend over too Jgreat an area; for it Ls only in typical years that their influence is wide-spr(>.ad. In studying the relation of the efl'cets of ground water on disease, we