A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Creighton

1775. October weekly average 323 births 345 deaths

November " " 334 " 447 " December " " 369 " 449 " [654] W. Grant, M.D., _Observations on the late Influenza as it appeared at London in 1775 and 1782_. Lond. 1782. Also, by the same, _A Short Account of the Present Epidemic Cough and Fever, in a letter &c._ First printed at Bath, and afterwards at London, 1776. [655] MS. Infirmary Book. [656] The reports collected by Dr John Fothergill (_Med. Obs. and Inquir._ VI. 340) were by himself, and by Pringle, Baker, Heberden and Reynolds, of London; Cuming, of Dorchester; Glass, of Exeter (long account): Ash, of Birmingham; White, of York; Haygarth, of Chester; Pulteney, of Blandford; Thomson, of Worcester; Skene, of Aberdeen; and Campbell, of Lancaster. The papers of this collective inquiry, as well as the two collections in 1782, the collection of Simmonds in 1788, that of Beddoes in 1803 (in a digest) and the Report of the Provincial Medical Association in 1837, together with some other extracts from books or papers, were brought together in a volume, without much editing, by Dr Theophilus Thompson, under the title of _The Annals of Influenza in Great Britain from 1510 to 1837_. London,