Porter on Famine Diseases

Fever in the Madras Famine

Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it one of the worst in recent history. The mortality impacts are clearly significant. But what of the survivors? This paper provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the famine twenty years later, on the height of young adults aged 17–25 who experienced this severe shock...

Phthisis in Famine

In 459 consecutive autopsies made during the Madras Famine of 1877-78, tubercular deposit was found in one or both lungs in thirty men, 13*3 per cent., twenty women, 12*8 per cent., and in one child. The deposit was present in both lungs in eighteen of the men aud in sixteen of the women, was confined to the right lung in three of the men, the child, and three of the women, and to the left lung...

The long run impact of severe shocks in childhood: Evidence from the Ethiopian famine of 1984

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused up to a million deaths. The crisis was brought on by drought from repeated rainfall failure, poor economic policies and civil war. But what of the survivors? This paper estimates the longterm impact of the famine twenty years later, on young men and women who experienced this severe shock as small children during th...

The Diseases of the Madras Famine of 1877-78

some general remarks 011 the emaciation of the patieuts. 86 per cent, of the men and 83 per cent, of the women had wasted till they were barely two-thirds of their normal weight. When emaciation has reached this degree, life is held by a slender thread which the least untoward circumstance is sufficient to snap. Besides the wasting of the muscular tissues, the organs of the body, especially the...