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1902 · rif. 056055 — Constantinople: Daire-yi Umûr-i Sihhiyye = Administration Sanitaire de l'Empire Óttoman Matbaa-i Osmaniye Imprimerie Osmanié & Imprimerie F. Loeffler Lithographie de S. M. I. le Sultan. 1902-1907 1902. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original greenish and yellowish wrappers and hardcover 1317/1901-1902 vol. Folio. 335 x 235 cm. In Ottoman script and French. 4 volumes: 144 p.; 4 150 p.; 12 p. 6 folded statistical tables. The third volume lacks its back cover and has a detached front cover with some staining present; the fourth volume shows wear and tear along the edges. First and only editions of these four exceedingly rare volumes form an invaluable collection presenting the earliest statistical tables that shed light on the diseases most commonly and least frequently encountered in early twentieth-century Ottoman Istanbul the causes of death resulting from illness and other factors average life expectancy and the overall health conditions of the city's population. The registers constitute an exceptional data source as the information is systematically disaggregated by religious affiliation Muslim and non-Muslim age and gender and further classified by neighbourhood and season. The statistical data contained in these registers documenting the causes of death in Istanbul and its surrounding districts is based on information compiled from ten divisions of the Department of Health Affairs as well as from major medical institutions including the Sixth Department Hospital Darü'l-Aceze Haseki Nisa Hospital Gümüssuyu Hospital Gureba-yi Müslimîn Hospital Toptasi Bîmârhâne the French Hospital the Jérémie Hospital established by the French Lazarists the Yedikule Armenian Hospital the Russian Hospital and the Italian British and German hospitals. According to these statistics tuberculosis organic heart failure and pneumonia were among the leading causes of death in Istanbul. Infant and child mortality also occupies a prominent place in the records largely attributable to poverty lack of education and inadequate hygienic conditions. Rare surviving copies from the statistical registers known to have been published between 1899 and 1907 specifically those for the years 1902 two issues 1903 and 1907. All these statistical bulletins are extremely rare; according to WorldCat only three copies are recorded worldwide in institutional holdings. Daire-yi Umûr-i Sihhiyye = Administration Sanitaire de l'Empire Óttoman, Matbaa-i Osmaniye, Imprimerie Osmanié & Imprimer paperback