Weather and Disease A Curve History of their Variations in Recent Years

Abstract

THE systematic study of climatic conditions in connection with the fluctuation in the public health, is one which has only recently been undertaken, but which already promises results of a most interesting and important character. Apart from the inherent interest of the subject, which must indeed be apparent; the study offers, like observations in phenology, the prospect of great practical value. The work of weather forecasting is at present so wanting in accuracy, and there is so little promise of progress in this direction, that practical meteorologists might be tempted to despair, and the general public be led to imagine that the vast stores of records which have been accumulated were destined to remain fruitless for an indefinite time. The application of meteorology to related subjects in general, and to hygiene in particular, may thus be considered doubly welcome.

Weather and Disease. A Curve History of their Variations in Recent Years.

By Alex. B. MacDowall (London: The Graphotone Co., 1895.)