Public health in Wales (Cardiff University via JSTOR)"Reports on the state of public health in the city of Cardiff, for the years 1853-1926. Early reports provide census-style data on birth rates, death rates, marriages, infant mortality, housing conditions, deaths in public institutions, violent deaths, and details of incidences of disease and death broken down by cause, age and sex. Causes of death were often compared with data from rural areas, other large towns, or England, enabling comparative studies. Meteorological data was also gathered, as it was long thought that climate was responsible for the outbreak and spread of certain diseases. From the 1870s, reports begin to feature special analysis of specific disease outbreaks, such as small pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, tuberculosis and cholera."