1782 HEYSHAM ON GAOL FEVER 059. HEYSHAM, John. An account of the jail fever, or typhus carcaerum: as it appeared at Carlisle in the year 1781. London. Printed for T. Cadell, J. Murray, R Faulder, and J. Milliken, Bookseller, Carlisle. 1782. iv,59,[2]p. Rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards. Withdrawn from the Library of the Wellcome Institute. L, E, MRu, O; DNLM, MnU-B only in ESTC. WELLCOME, 111, p.261. John Heysham 1753-1834. Besides this pamphlet he was the author of several reports on the mortality statistics of Carlisle. "Perhaps the most important statist of the period John Heysham, of Lancaster, commenced practice at Carlisle in 1778, where he founded its first poor-law dispensary, described jail fever in 1781 and, in 1779-88, made those statistical observations of births, marriages, diseases and death which became the basis of the celebrated "Carlisle Tables" of the actuary, Joshua Milne (1816). Garrison, History of Medicine.