Pneumonia
is the inflammation and consolidation of the lung tissue as a result
of infection, inhalation of foreign particles or irradiation. Streptococcal
is the most common form of pneumonia. The bacteria lives in the body
of healthy people but only causes problems when the resistance of
the patient has been lowered by another illness or infection. Symptoms
include headaches, feverishness, muscle pain and sore throat. Later,
coughing becomes the main symptom. Another bacterium, klebsiella pneumoniae,
produces a more lethal pneumonia, and occurs almost exclusively in
hospitalized patients.
(1)
Edwin Chadwick, The Sanitary
Conditions of the Labouring Population (1842)
| Number
of Deaths in 1838 and 1839 |
| Disease |
1838 |
1839 |
| Typhus |
24,577 |
25,991 |
| Smallpox |
16,268 |
9,131 |
| Measles |
6,514 |
10,937 |
| Whooping
Cough |
9,107 |
8,165 |
| Consumption
|
59,025 |
59,559 |
| Pneumonia |
17,999 |
18,151 |
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