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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.
Primary Sources
(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