Erik Noji, mentioned, tongue in cheek, Noah as the first disaster manager during a lecture in 2005. The canonical description of "The Genesis Flood" does describe Noah as a master planner and executer of an evacuation of biblical proportions. After gaining knowledge of a potential catastrophic disaster he planned and executed an evacuation to mitigate the effects of the "Genesis Flood" by build...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine Roy Porter, Editor Against the backdrop of an unprecedented concern for health today, The Cambridge Illustrated History ofMedicine not only surveys the rise of medicine in the West from earliest times to the present day, but also glimpses into the future. It is written by a team of experts coordinated by one of the most distinguished and prolific wr...

A HEAVY old-fashioned leatherbound ledger, with the initials 'G. P." stamped on its front cover, was handed in to the Cleveland County Archivist's office by the Clerk to the Parish Council of Yarm in the 1970s. The ledger records a doctor's practice over two short periods in the 1880s. The initials 'G. P.' seem unlikely to mean general practitioner, although that title was in use in the ninetee...

A review of all the cases of the coroner's court for the Liberty of Ripon and Kirkby Malzeard in Yorkshire from 1855 to 1926, and those of 1981-83, showed that the number of deaths from acute coronary artery disease was very low in Victorian times, suddenly increased in the period 1906-10, and was very high in 1981-83. The population of the area was stable throughout the period at around 22 000...

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