LANCASHIRE SANITATION.

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.

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The Taylors of Lancashire

JOHN L. WEST, The Taylors of Lancashire, Manchester, [the author], 1977, 8vo, pp. 134, illus., £1.50 + postage (paperback). (Obtainable from: 11 Half Edge Lane, Eccles, Manchester). An excellent account of a remarkable medical family, based on extensive research into manuscript and printed sources. It extended over six or seven generations, from James Taylor (1708/10-1777) of Whitworth to Herbe...

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On Recent Typhus in Lancashire

commencement of the present distress. Since the great typhus epidemic in Lancashire at the time of the Irish famine, in 1847-48, there has been scarcely any of this disease in the cotton towns. Liverpool, indeed, resembles London, and has formerly exceeded London, in its disposition to epidemics of typhus; but in the cotton towns proper all the medical men who best knew typhus, through their ex...