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produce, duty free, would be an important privilege;
but when taken in connexion with that other power,
it gives to Jersey, advantages which are only limited
by her capital and population. Hitherto, indeed,
these advantages have been confined to the export ot
dressed leather, boots and shoes, ready-made clothes,
flour,—all, less or more manufactured from foreign
produce : but there is no article of British manufacture,
from foreign produce, that with capital, Jersey
could not fabricate and export, with equal advantage,—
underselling the British manufacturer in the colonial
market.
CH A PT ER XI.
ON HEALTH AND DISEASE IN JERSEY, IN RELATION
TO THE INFLUENCES OF CLIMATE, &C.
By Matthew Scholefield, M.D. and M.B.: Jersey.
L a t e P r e s i d e n t o f the R o y a l M e d i c a l S o c i e t y o f E d i n b u r g h .
[The author of this work, not being himself conversant with the
science of medicine, has judged it best, on so important a subject
as the diseases of these islands, to call in the aid of persons,
competent by their professional education, to undertake the
duty. Of the ability with which the task has been executed, it
is not for him to express any opinion].
SECTION I.
T h e statistics of the diseases of Jersey, present in
general much uniformity with those of England. The
difference in the diseases of England and Jersey,
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although greater than that seen in the diseases of any
two contiguous counties of the former, is probably
not greater than what presents itself in counties
equally removed from each other in their local peculiarities,
and by their geographical position. Pathologically
too, I consider the diseases of the two countries,
as, for the most part, identical; whether in
regard to the broad outline of their nosological character,
or in reference to the application of those
great curative principles, proper to be adopted in each
country.
In the pathology and statistics of a few diseases,
however, a marked difference is perceptible to the eye
of him who has attentively considered these diseases
as they are exhibited in this, and in the parent island.
But this discrepancy is visible only in a few maladies ;
and in such chiefiy, as in England, are found to be at
all times influenced by locality,—^by vicissitudes of
temperature,—and by differences in the moral and
economic habitudes of the people ; the corresponding
diversity among diseases, produced by the combination
of these causes, being ever found most clearly
marked, where these causes are most direct and powerful
in their operation.
The full and scientific analysis of my subject would
embrace the consideration of the diseases of Jersey
under three heads :—
First, as these diseases affect the people in the
rural districts.
Next, as they are exhibited in the natives residing
in S t Helier.
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