In 1830, the year Belgium became independent, there were four divorces in Belgium. From about 1870 to 1910, there were about one hundred divorces per year, and since 1910, there have been about 1,000. The aim of this research is to investigate the factors that played a role in the increase in the number of divorces in Belgium in the course of the nineteenth century. The research relates to info...

We would like to thank Graham Mooney and Andrew Noymer and Beth Jarosz for their responses to our ‘Second Opinion’ on ‘Infectious Disease and the Epidemiological Transition in Victorian Britain’. Mooney offers a robust attack on our general claim that the importance of infectious diseases as a cause of death in the nineteenth century has been overstated, while seeming to accept what we say abou...

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Ague was central to the local construct of health and mortality for both the lay and the medically trained nineteenth-century Fenlanders. The disease was endemic in the marshes of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire for the greater part of the century, reaching epidemic proportions between 1826 and 1829, and 1857 and 1860. Mortality from ague was minimal and sporadic, but the dise...

century (tenuously, since, as the author does not state, only the plan for this example is known and there is no evidence that the building was ever erected) and still in use in the thirteenth century for hotels-Dieu and monastic hospitals, mainly Benedictine. Though Karassava-Tsilingiri does not say so, his conclusions-if accepted-are of very great importance for the history of medical institu...