Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth CenturyCambridge University Press, 1989 M11 24 - 251 páginas From the beginning of European trade and conquest overseas, Europeans have known they died from the effect of the strange "climate." Later, they came to understand that it was disease, not climate, that killed, but the fact remained that every trading voyage, every military expedition beyond Europe, had its price in European lives lost. For European soldiers in the tropics at the beginning of the nineteenth century, this added cost in deaths from disease--the "relocation cost"--meant a death rate at least twice that of soldiers who stayed home. This book is partly a statistical exposition of the changing death rates of European Algeria, the British West Indies, and southern India--by cause of death from disease--set against the comparable figures for those who stayed at home in France or Great Britain. About two-thirds of the book is devoted to a discussion of what Europeans at the time thought about the possible causes of relocation costs and what they did to remedy them in actual medical practice in the colonies. |
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Admissions Deaths Africa AHMC AMPM AMSR annual Army Medical barracks beriberi Britain British Army British Troops Serving British West Indies Caribbean Causes of Death cholera Circulatory system civilian Climates coloniale colonies continued fevers d'hygiène Death among European Death and Hospital death rates Deaths from Disease Deaths per Thousand decades decline Digestive system dropped dry earth system dysentery early Enteric fever epidemic Eruptive fevers Europe European Troops Serving fièvre filter France Health Indicators Hospital Admissions hygiènique infection Jamaica JRAMC l'armée Laveran Leeward Command London Madras Presidency malaria medical authorities military doctors mosquito Nervous system nineteenth century nutrition overseas Paris Paroxysmal fevers pays chauds percent Percentage population Progress of Hygiene quinine Rates per Thousand Report on Hygiene Respiratory system sample Sanitary sewage slow sand filter soldiers Source Statistical statistique médicale Table Thousand Mean Strength Total disease Tropical Medicine Tuberculosis typhoid fever United Kingdom water supply Windward and Leeward yellow fever