‘Nobody had been paying any attention to the case’

Chester, Lucy P.

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“…18 As many as 65 venereal patients, slightly over one third, came from outside Chester (including three soldiers). 19 Most were from towns and villages in Cheshire, with a number from North Wales and one or two from even further afield. Some of these cases will form the basis for an important supplementary exercise in the last part of this article but initially they are removed so that rates for the Chester city population can be estimated.…”

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Treatment rates for the pox in early modern England: a comparative estimate of the prevalence of syphilis in the city of Chester and its rural vicinity in the 1770s

Szreter

2017

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Treatment rates for the pox in early modernEngland: a comparative estimate of the prevalence of syphilis in the city of Chester and its rural vicinity in the 1770s SIMON SZRETER * ABSTRACT. This article offers an innovative attempt to construct an empirically-based estimate of the extent of syphilis prevailing in two contrasting populations in late eighteenth-century Britain. Thanks to the co-incident survival of both a detailed admissions register for Chester Infirmary and a pioneering census of the city of Chester in 1774 taken by Dr John Haygarth, it is possible to produce age-specific estimates of the extent to which adults of each sex had been treated for the pox by age 35. These estimates can be produced both for the resident population of Chester city and comparatively for the rural region immediately surrounding Chester. These are the first estimates of the prevalence of this important disease produced for the eighteenth century and they can be compared with similar figures for England and Wales c. 1911-1912.

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Treatment rates for the pox in early modern England: a comparative estimate of the prevalence of syphilis in the city of Chester and its rural vicinity in the 1770s

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2017

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‘Nobody had been paying any attention to the case’

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Treatment rates for the pox in early modern England: a comparative estimate of the prevalence of syphilis in the city of Chester and its rural vicinity in the 1770s

Treatment rates for the pox in early modern England: a comparative estimate of the prevalence of syphilis in the city of Chester and its rural vicinity in the 1770s

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