Bulstrode Timbrell M D (1 results)

A 253 page Government Report containing 32 Ordnance Survey Maps of the coastal sources of cockels and mussels from Brittany to Berwick on Tweed. A continuation and supplement to the authors "Oyster Culture in relation to Disease" 1894 which showed that these molluscs were often collected, fattened or stored under extremely unwholesome & dangerous conditions.The present report gives an account of the more important cockle & mussel beds,the sources from which the large towns derive their shellfish,seasonal variations in supply,the cultivation of shellfish with a view to improving them.the behaviour of Enteric Fever in the past 30 years and its relatshionship to the consumption of raw & uncooked shellfish.Investigation into the etiology of individual cases of Enteric Fever.etc.etc. good copy in contemporary cloth lettered to spine. Cd 5313.