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Social History of Medicine 1997 10(1):157-163; doi:10.1093/shm/10.1.157
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‘Sickness is a Baffling Matter’. A Reply to James C. Riley

ROBERT WOODS*

*Department of Geography, University of Liverpool Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

SUMMARY This paper replies to the comments made by James C. Riley. It provides a defence of the assumptions adopted in 'Physician, Heal Thyself (Social History of Medicine, 9 (1996), 1–30) to estimate the average duration of work-preventing sickness experienced by members of the medical profession in England in the 1860s as well as offering some new estimates. It also provides further criticisms of Riley's contention that although the rate of mortality declined in England between the 1860s and 1890s that ofmorbidity increased, which is based on surveys of friendly society members In doing so it reiterates the warning given by Jacques Bertillon in 1892 concerning the use of friendly society survcys for the measurement of vamations and trends in morbidity patterns by age.

Keywords: Health; mortality; medical profession; age-specific sickness-mortality curve; Victorian England; Jacques Bertillon; Robert Woods; James C Riley


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