Epidemiology in Relation to Air Travel

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Epidemiology in Relation to Air Travel
AuthorArthur Massey
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMedicine
Published1933
PublisherH. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd.
Pages59

Epidemiology in Relation to Air Travel is a book by

quarantinable diseases plague, cholera, yellow fever and smallpox
, could arrive in the UK in the early 1930s.

Massey noted that travelling by aeroplane, from countries where major infectious diseases were common, to countries where those diseases were rare or non-existent, risked spreading those diseases during the incubation period.

It was noted by Air Commodore

H. E. Whittingham and in The Indian Medical Gazette
to be one of the earliest works of its kind.

Publication

Epidemiology in Relation to Air Travel was written by the Coventry-based medical officer of health Arthur Massey, and published by H. K. Lewis and Co. Ltd. in 1933, when the topic was relatively new,[1] and in the year after the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation was drawn up.[2] It has 59 pages and five maps.[1]

Synopsis

The book deals briefly with the danger of spreading

mosquitoes and the risk of transferring yellow fever.[1]
In the preface, he wrote:

Speedier transport is equivalent to a reduction of distance. This was shown when steamships superseded sailing vessels. It is demonstrated more forcibly today by the events of civil aviation. Among the momentous advantages, fraternal and commercial, born of this development, there is the disadvantage that countries affected by certain major infectious diseases are brought nearer to countries which ordinarily enjoy freedom therefrom.[2]

The book addresses

excrement and implement procedures to avoid carrying disease bearing insects are included in the book.[4]

Response

It was noted by Air Commodore H. E. Whittingham, to be one of the earliest works of its kind, along with that of Air Commodore David Munro, who wrote on the subject in 1925.[5] The Indian Medical Gazette also noted it to be a new field, but disagreed with some of the maps showing plague and cholera distribution in Asia and noted some minor errors in the text.[3]

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 27899345
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  2. ^
    ISBN 9780199596614
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  3. ^
    PMC 5163508
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  4. ^ "Epidemiology. in Relation to Air Travel". The Canadian Medical Association Journal. 29: 222. August 1933.
  5. PMID 19991846
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