The importance of long-term records in public health surveillance: the US weekly sanitary reports, 1888-1912, revisited.
BACKGROUND: This paper outlines the ways in which a little-used archive of early public health records may throw light on longer-term trends in international epidemic behaviour and serve as a major source of epidemiological information for historians of urbanization and public health. The Weekly Abs...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1997
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