Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters and chronic diseases : with cases / by Andrew Scott Myrtle and James Aitken Myrtle.

  • Myrtle, Andrew Scott.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters and chronic diseases : with cases / by Andrew Scott Myrtle and James Aitken Myrtle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    ladies' of any size, now I cannot tell the number of schools we boast of; but collectively they con- tain a very large number of children at an age most liable to disease. I have made inquiries at most of these schools, and I find that many of the children were sent on account of their deli- cate health ; that one boys' school, established for above thirty years, with an average of seventy pupils between eight and eighteen years of age, has never had a case of any infectious disease in it except measles, and never had a single death. That a lady's school established for even a longer period, with an average of thirty pupils of the same age, has a similar report to offer, with one imported case of scarlet fever and recovery; that another lady's school in existence for eighteen years, with an average of eighteen pupils, reports health of children interrupted once by a mild form of measles. In one lady's school which I have attended for thirty years I have watched the pro- gress of a large number of delicate girls, and can speak with confidence on one point ; they improve in health as soon as they come to Harrogate, and during their holiday visits they very often lose colour and tone, regaining both on a resumption of school life. The children in Harrogate are remarkably free from scrofulous disease, the distinguishing feature