The climates and baths of Great Britain / / being the report of a committee of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.

  • Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
Date:
1895-1902
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    Thanet—continued. ture, 431 ; altitude, 433 ; relative humidity and rainfall, 433 ; fogs, 434 ; winds, 434 ; sunshine, 435 ; climatic capabilities and differ- ential climatology of resorts, 435 ; therapeutical indications and con- tra-indications, 436, 440 ; preva- lent diseases, 440, 443 ; drainage, 441; statistical data as to mortality from various causes, 442; water supply, 442 annual death rates from various dis- eases, 274 Thomas, Mr. W., meteorological obser- vations at Scilly, 60 Thompson, Dr. E. Symes (and Dr. W. S. Lazarus-Barlow), The Climate of Devonshire, 65 ; The Climate of the Channel Islands, 105 Thorp, Professor T. E., analyses of prin- cipal Cheltenham springs, 592 Thresh, Dr., analyses of Buxton waters, 530 Thyroid enlargement, frequent in North Devon, 98 Tintagel, situation and climatic charac- ters, 50 ; low mortality from phthisis and other diseases of respiratory organs at, 51 ; disease prevalence, 51 ; thera- peutical effects, 52 Tiverton, situation, 87 ; drainage and water supply, 87 Tonbridge, 405; meteorological observa- tions at, 407, 408 Tonsillitis, follicular, at Barnstaple, 97 ; on Dartmoor, 97 ; in Channel Islands, 109 ; at Weymouth, 146 ; common at Bournemouth, 190 ; not uncommon among summer visitors at Margate, 453 Tonsils, enlarged, effect of Leamington waters upon, 588 Torquay, situation, 87 ; drainage, 87 ; meteorological statistics, 88 ; water supply, 89 ; death-rate, 89 ; climatic characteristics, 89; compared with Barnstaple, 89 Truro, as a health resort, 54 ; large mortality from phthisis at, 54; meteoro- logical observations at, 55, 56 Tuberculosis, Shaftesbury as a hill station for, 143; rare at Swanage, 151; at Freshwater, 227 ; not prevalent at Gravesend, 419 ; rare in Isle of Sheppey, 423 ; almost unknown at Sheerness, 425 pulmonary, value of Ventnor and the Undercliff in, 218; atSandown, 224 ; see also Phthisis Tuberculous diseases, effect of climate of St. Agnes upon, 47 ; in Devonshire, 94 ; in Channel Islands, 109 ; common at Shaftesbury, 140; benefited by Shaftes- bury, 143 ; uncommon at Weymouth, 146; benefited by Bournemouth, 188; benefited by Southbourne, 194; bene- fited by Ventnor, 215; rare at Shanklin, 220 ; uncommon at Hastings and St. Leonards, 334; Bexhill beneficial in, 345 ; climate of Eastbourne beneficial in, 356 ; climate of Seaford beneficial in, 362; at Tunbridge Wells, 409; Whitstable beneficial in, 427 ; Birch- ington beneficial in, 445 ; Margate beneficial in, 451 ; rare at Folkestone, 497 ; benefited at Sandgate, 503; action of Buxton waters in, 535 ; action of Harrogate waters in, 554 Tunbridge Wells (by Dr. A. E. Garrod), 593 district, 397 ; situation, 406, 593; climate and its therapeutic effects, 409; prevalent diseases, 409; commonest causes of death, 411 ; death rate, 411 ; duration of life, 412 ; infant mortality, 412 ; drain- ageandwatersupply,412; meteoro- logical observations, 413, 414; general remarks on, 514 ; analysis of water, 594 ; therapeutical uses of water, 595 Typhoid fever, see Zymotic Diseases Uckfield, situation, 327 ; temperature, 327 ; rainfall, 32S ; humidity, 328; barometric pressure, 328 Undercliff, The, physical characters, 208; geological formation, soil, vegetation as evidence of climate and protection, 209 ; sea, 209 ; climate and meteoro- logy, 210 ; prevailing diseases, 214 ; therapeutic effects and uses, 217 ; ex- cellent for scrofulous children, 218 Underwood, D. J., vegetation at Hast- ings and neighbourhood, 333 Uric acid gravel, use of Leamington waters in, 588 Urinary diseases, mortality from, in counties of London, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Middlesex, compared with that of England and Wales, 270; re- latively high death i-ate from, in Sussex, 273 ; small mortality from, in Surrey, 273 ; medium mortality from, in Kent, 273 ; action of Buxton waters in, 536 ; action of Harrogate waters in, 555; action of Llanwrtyd Wells waters in, 611