Cholera precautions at Hull

Liability , Risk Perceptions , and Precautions at Bars

Are state laws, regulatory practices, and allocation of public resources for enforcement reflected in perceptions by bar owners/managers that they will be cited or sued if they fail to exercise care? Among policies, which ones have the greatest impact on risk perceptions and, in turn, on such behaviors? We used data on laws, law enforcement, and regulations in the same areas as the bars to dete...

Taking aim at cholera

In 1854, John Snow’s work on cholera in London immortalised the power of mapping as a tool for disease prevention and control. Over 160 years later, a more ambitious effort to map cholera has been reported in The Lancet. Forgoing so-called shoe leather epidemiology in favour of big data, Justin Lessler and colleagues used 279 cholera datasets covering 2283 locations in 37 countries, and cluster...

Cholera at Puri

In 1871 an Act was passed by the Bengal Legislature regulating lodging-houses at Puri; it was expected that 3.168 houses would be licensed under the Act, but it appears that only 497 houses have up to this time been licensed, accommodating 14,463 of the 45.000 pilgrims sometimes assembled together at Puri. The Englishman argues, that, as the Government has lately ordered any tea-garden in which...

Obligatory precautions against infection.

If we have a duty not to infect others, how far does it go? This question is often discussed with respect to HIV transmission, but reflection on other diseases like influenza raises a number of interesting theoretical issues. I argue that a duty to avoid infection not only yields requirements for persons who know they carry a disease, but also for persons who know they are at increased risk, an...

Air-raid Precautions