Somerset House analyses

Farmer's lung disease in Somerset.

A survey of laboratory records was made to assess the value of the precipitin test and isolation methods in the diagnosis of farmer's lung disease and also to determine its prevalence in the farming population of Somerset. A link was established between the clinical diagnosis as written on the form that accompanied the specimen and the actual number of positive laboratory diagnoses made. Fifty ...

Ornithosis in Somerset. Experience in the South Somerset clinical area 1964-71.

During an 8-year period, seventy patients were found, by complement fixation testing, to have had ornithosis. A clinical analysis was made of forty-seven who fulfilled strict diagnostic criteria; thirty-three had been referred to a chest clinic, fourteen had been hospitalized. A non-specific, febrile, myalgic illness with respiratory symptoms was the usual clinical syndrome; cough was a promine...

Meet the Local Associations: 4. Somerset Association

were the gathering together of reliable statistics of the number of mental defectives in Somerset and the collection of a fund to begin a farm colony for the feeble-minded. At the end of the first two years 1,933 patients had been visited; four of whom were subsequently placed under guardianship and 43 referred to the Local Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act 1913. In the meantime 25 pati...

The Twenty-Fifth Long Fox Memorial Lecture: Somerset Lake Villages

Popular Orientalism: Somerset Maugham in Mainland Southeast Asia

Based on his experiences during a journey through mainland Southeast Asia in 1923, Somerset Maugham wrote a book of colonial travel entitled The Gentleman in the Parlour. As the work of one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century, Maugham’s travelogue both expressed and helped to shape contemporary thinking about Southeast Asia and Western imperialism. Focusing especially on his re...