Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Four deaths occurred in 1877-78 among the students resident in Cambridge, - three in the College and one in the Scientific School. Two died of brain disease, one of pneumonia, and one of anaemia. In no one of the cases could the fatal disease be attributed to any exposure or over-exertion incident to student life or to residence in Cambridge. The general healthiness of the University dormitories is remarkable. There has been no epidemic therein of fever, diphtheria, dysentery, or any zymotic disease for many years, and malaria (except in imported cases) is unknown...
...other disadvantages in point of health. A pleurisy which he contracted last November affected his lungs so seriously that a change of climate became necessary, and, though extremely unwilling that his studies should be interrupted, he had consented to go to Europe for a few months. But a catarrhal pneumonia supervened upon other troubles, his strength declined rapidly, and he died at Cambridge on March 3, the day preceding that on which he was to sail...