1840-1841 Statistical Reports on the Health of the Navy, for the Years 1830-1836

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding, Very Scarce

The very scarce 1840 and 1841 reports of the health of the Royal Navy, analysing health date covering the years 1830 to 1836.

Volume I features the reports from South America, the West Indies and North America, the Mediterranean and the Peninsula, where volume II features reports from the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa, the East Indies, and 'home'.

Drawing from surgeons' logs, hospital records, and ship reports, these volumes provided detailed tables categorising illness and mortality by disease type, location, season, and shipboard conditions.

Tables highlight the prevalence of fevers, scurvy, and respiratory diseases, and emphasised the role of poor hygiene, inadequate diet, and cramped conditions in fostering illness.

With the bookplate of the Faculty of Physicians & Surgeons to the front pastedown.

Rebacked, retaining the original endpapers.

These works helped establish a tradition of military health surveillance, likely contributing to later developments in public health and epidemiology.