A Letter to the Right Honourable, the Secretary at War, on Sickness and Mortality in the West Indies - Being a Review of Captain Tulloch's Statistical Report (Paperback)

Sir Andrew Halliday (1782 1839) served as a surgeon in the Peninsular War, and then as a royal physician. In 1832 he was appointed Inspector of Hospitals in the West Indies until ill-health forced his return to Scotland. This 1839 pamphlet contains his recommendations to the Secretary of War, concerning the major losses suffered by the army in the West Indies due to illness. It was written in response to the Tulloch report presented to Parliament on the subject the previous year. This showed that the average death rate for soldiers there was almost six times higher than those in Britain, and in some islands considerably higher, due to dysentery, yellow fever and malaria. Halliday believed that many of these deaths were preventable, if medical advice was consulted on the siting of barracks, the daily regimes within them, and sanitation, and if doctors had the authority to implement changes.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	October 2010
Authors:	Sir Andrew Halliday
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 44mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	74
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-02311-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Promotions
LSN:	1-108-02311-8
Barcode:	9781108023115

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