The Geographical Distribution of Disease in Great Britain. By Alfred
Haviland. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This is the second edition of a work first published in 1875. It deals only with the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and such other parts as belong to the Lake District, and it is, farther, limited to the diseases of cancer, heart disease, and phthisis. It is, therefore, only an instalment of a gigantic work, which, indeed, to be ac- complished within any reasonable space of time, must be attacked at once by many labourers. The subject is too technical for us to discuss, but we can appreciate its importance. We notice an observation which will have a special interest at the present time. In the cholera epidemic of 1849, the author observed that, in a town where he had charge of the cholera cases, these always in- creased when there was a calm, and diminished when the wind blew strongly.
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