I think one thing this shows is in famines epidemics break out because of the weakened populace and that kills even those who are not starving.
Making graphs out of the death statistics tables from
The Dublin quarterly journal of medical science : consisting of original communications, reviews, retrospects, and reports, including the latest discoveries in medicine, surgery, and the collateral sciences. Volume 5, 1848.
About what killed doctors during the famine
Article is page 111 at https://archive.org/details/s2400id1378535/page/120/mode/2up
Art. VII. — On the Mortality of Medical Practitioners in Ireland. Second Article. By James William Cusack, M. D. President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and William Stokes, M. D., Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Dublin
Python notebook to make the graphs https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1yUvPSZosiEj0-h9aqpz3sNLVL1oRcaJ5?usp=drive_link
Csv of data https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j7padH1NV4iI_WjwDdrFgOLJ9nh_Z7uQ/view?usp=sharing
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The biggest killer in famines isn’t hunger, its the wave of diseases that sweeps over the weakened populace.
What is the unit for the Y axis?
Damn. Doctors dropping like flies during the potato famine.
Putting red and green together like that was a cruel trick to play on my eyes lol
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