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Paperback. Zustand: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Six fascinating and very scarce volumes of Royal Navy medical reports and statistical health data, offering insight into the health of the navy between 1869 and 1915. Six very scarce 19th and 20th century reports of the health of the Royal Navy, analysing health data over the course of six decades.Present here are the reports for the years 1869, 1870, 1875, 1909, 1910 and 1915.Drawing from surgeons' logs, hospital records, and ship reports, these volumes provided detailed tables categorising illness and mortality by disease type, location, season, and shipboard conditions.Tables, some of which are folding, highlight the prevalence of fevers, scurvy, and respiratory diseases, and emphasised the role of poor hygiene, inadequate diet, and cramped conditions in fostering illness.These works helped establish a tradition of military health surveillance, likely contributing to later developments in public health and epidemiology.Library stamps to front wraps of three volumes. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Significant losses of paper to back strip heads and tails. Library stamps to front wraps of three volumes. Significant handling marks and ink marks to front wrap of 1915 volume. Wraps of 1910 volume detached but present, with losses to perimeters of 1909 and 1875 volumes, with wraps of 1869 volume tenderly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd handling mark. Good Only. book.