Maritime quarantine : the British experience, c.1650-1900

Maritime quarantine : the British experience, c.1650-1900 / John Booker.

Author/creator	Booker, John, 1941-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Description	xviii, 624 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Quarantine--Great Britain --History. Communicable diseases--Great Britain --Prevention --History. Naval hygiene--Great Britain --History. Quarantine--History --Great Britain. History, 17th Century--Great Britain. History, 18th Century--Great Britain. History, 19th Century--Great Britain. Medicine, Naval--History --Great Britain. Quarantine--history --Great Britain. Naval Medicine--history --Great Britain. History of Medicine.

Series	History of medicine in context History of medicine in context. ^A518919
Contents	The seventeenth century -- The Baltic crisis, 1709-1714 : policy and procedure -- The Baltic crisis, 1709-1714 : mercantile worries -- The Marseilles crisis, 1720-1723 -- Gibraltar and Minorea, 1720-1814 -- The Messina crisis and legislation, 1728-1754 -- Indecision in Britain, 1756-1788 -- The foul-bill dilemma, 1786-1800 -- Land or sea? : the Lazaretto debate, 1793-1800 -- British Board of Health and Kentish fiasco, 1803-1820 -- Malta : war, peace and plague, 1640-1814 -- Anti-contagionism in Britain, 1805-1825 -- Malta and the Ionian islands, 1815-1826 -- Mediterranean misery, plus cholera, 1825-1835 -- International deliberation, 1835-1853 -- Malta, 1826-1851, and the demise of quarantine.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-571) and index.
LCCN	2007007394
ISBN	9780754661788 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	0754661784 (hardback : alk. paper)