[1539]Paterson, u. s. for the fishing village of Collieston, Aberdeenshire: “In most instances where the lancet was used at the proper period little else was required. The patient, although in an apparently hopeless state at the time of my visit, was in these instances not unfrequently in the course of twenty-four hours out of danger.”
[1540]A correspondent of theLond. Med. Gaz.Sept. 1832, p. 731, dating from Warrington, proved by a statistical arrangement of 103 cases of cholera, that the saline treatment was nearly certain recovery, that the same combined with blood-letting was certain recovery, that blood-letting alone was certain death, and that opium with stimulants, and Morison’s pill, were each uniformly followed by a fatal result.
[1541]Quarterly Review,CXVIII.256.
[1542]Reported by Brewster to J. Y. Simpson,Edin. Med. Surg. Journ.XLIX.(1838), p. 368.
[1543]Glas. Med. Journ.VI.(1833), p. 366. Stark says, perhaps for Edinburgh, that cholera recurred in the end of 1833 and beginning of 1834, with a high degree of fatality.
[1544]Edmond Sharkey, M.B.,Dubl. J. Med. Sc.XVI.13. Of 28 houses or cabins (nearly all in three hamlets) which together had 76 cases, 16 cabins had each two cases, 8 had each three, 1 had four, 2 had each five, and 1 had six. The type of sickness was the same as in 1832-33.
[1545]R. Green, M.D.,Lancet, 14 April, 1838, p. 83: true Asiatic cholera began at Youghal in the second week of December, 1837, and lasted two months, about 200 having been attacked: “two of my relatives, Miss A. —— and Mrs K. ——, died in December of cholera, one in fourteen hours, the other in ten hours.”
[1546]Deaths from Cholera in the Coventry House of Industry:
1838.
Twenty-seven were males and twenty-eight females. The ages were as follow:
—Second Report of the Registrar-General, p. 98.
[1547]Stark,Ed. Med. and Surg. Journ.LXXI.(1849), p. 388; W. Robertson,Month. Journ. Med. Sc.IX.(1849). The other outbreaks reported in that part of Scotland (ibid.) were slight—at Dalkeith, Haddington, Borrowstowness.
[1548]Easton,Glas. Med. Journ.V.444.
[1549]Sutherland,Report of the Board of Health.
[1550]Sutherland,Report, u. s.; Grieve,Month. J. Med. Sc.IX.777. Barker,ibid.940 (gives good account of the stormy weather).
[1551]Month. Journ. Med. Sc.IX.783, 857, 1011,X.403.
[1552]Ibid.IX.1009.
[1553]Sutherland,Report, u. s. The year 1847, in which there was no cholera, had been much more fatal in the chief towns of Scotland, than either 1848 or 1849, owing to the great prevalence of typhus (Stark):
Deaths from all causes.
[1554]H. MacCormac to Graves,Dub. Journ. Med. Sc.N. S. VII.245.
[1555]Most of the information on the cholera of 1849 in England comes from two sources: (1) theReport of the General Board of Health on the Epidemic Cholera of 1848 and 1849(Parl. papers, 1850), containing the detailed reports of Mr R. D. Grainger for London, and of Dr John Sutherland for various other towns; and (2) theQuarterly Reports of the Registrar-General for the year 1849. See also note 3, p. 846.
[1556]Sutherland,Report, u. s. p. 121. At Sheffield (ibid.p. 108) a sudden outbreak of diarrhoea occurred on 26 August over the whole town; 5319 cases of it were known, with only 76 cases of cholera and 46 deaths.
[1557]Henry Cooper, “On the Cholera Mortality in Hull during the epidemic of 1849,”Journ. Statist. Soc.XVI.347. The total is higher than that in the Table.
[1558]Sutherland,Report, u. s., with map.
[1559]For Bristol, Sutherland (p. 126) cites Goldney: “In a certain lodging-house there were 35 attacks and 33 deaths during the epidemic of 1832.... Out of the same house in 1849, 64 people were turned, of whom 49 were sent to the House of Refuge.” Not one case of cholera occurred among these, but many attacks of diarrhoea, which was general all through the epidemic, especially along the Frome.
[1560]The epidemic in the small Devonshire fishing village of Noss Mayo near Plympton St Mary, was very fully investigated by A. C. Maclaren,Journ. Statist. Soc.XIII.(1850), p. 103. The Oxford epidemic (75 deaths) was described by Greenhill and Allen in theAshmolean Society Reports. For Tynemouth, see Greenhow,Trans. Epid. Soc.The volume by Baly and Gull,Reports on Epidemic Cholera drawn up at the desire of the Cholera Committee Roy. Col. Phys.London, 1854, is in great part a review of the epidemic of 1849, in the form of a general discussion of the whole problem of Asiatic cholera. A subcommittee of the College also published aReport on the nature of the microscopic bodies found in the intestinal discharges of Cholera, London, 1849.
[1561]Farr, “Influence of elevation on the mortality of Cholera.”Journ. Statist. Soc.XV.(1852), p. 155, and in the Reports of the Registrar-General.
[1562]C. Barham, M.B., “Tavistock Parish Register,”Journ. Statist. Soc.IV.37.
[1563]Middleton, “Sanitary Statistics of Salisbury,”ibid.XXVII.(1864), p. 541.
[1564]Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the late outbreak of Cholera in Newcastle, Gateshead and Tynemouth.Parl. papers, 1854, pp. xl and 580.
[1565]The most elaborate and minute account of an epidemic on this occasion was that for Oxford,Memoir on the Cholera at Oxford in the year 1854. By H. W. Acland, M.D., in which all the points in the problem of cholera are illustrated from the easily surveyed local circumstances.
[1566]The registration district of Bideford had 46 deaths in 1854, the only large total in the West country. Kingsley’s graphic picture of the cholera of 1854 inTwo Years Agomay have corresponded to these naked figures in the registration tables; but no place in Cornwall, in which county the scene appears to be laid, could have furnished so considerable an epidemic as the novelist describes, a few places in it having had each some half-dozen deaths.
[1567]More than half in the end of 1853.
[1568]Nearly all in the end of 1853.
[1569]It was reported on by three commissioners, Dr Donald Fraser and Messrs Thomas Hughes and J. M. Ludlow, in theReport of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries, Cholera Epidemic of 1854. Appendix.
[1570]John Snow, M.D.,On the mode of communication of Cholera. London, 1849, 2nd ed. 1855.
[1571]General Board of Health, Report on Scientific Inquiries, 1854, p. 52.
[1572]J. W. Begbie,Ed. Med. and Surg. Journ.April, 1855, p. 250.
[1573]Glas. Med. Journ.N. S. II.127;III.116, 500; John Crawford, M.D., “Report of Cases in the Cholera Hosp.”ibid.III.48.
[1574]W. Alexander, M.D.,Edin. Med. Journ.II.86. TheEdin. Med. Journ.I.July, 1855, p. 81, contains a few lines of abstract of a paper by W. T. Gairdner on the diffusion of cholera in the remote districts of Scotland. Information on the subject is invited, but it does not appear that any full account of the cholera of 1854 in Scotland was published. It is known to have been in Aberdeen.
[1575]Census of Ireland 1861, Part III. vol. 2, p. 23.
[1576]Compiled from Grainger’s report for 1849, the Registrar-General’s Reports for 1854 and 1866, a table inLancet,I.1867, p. 125, and, for 1866, a table by Radcliffe, inRep. Med. Off. Priv. Council for 1866, p. 339.
[1577]Radcliffe,Rep. Med. Off. Privy Council for 1866, p. 294.
[1578]Scoutetten,Histoire médicale et topographique du Cholera Morbus, Metz, 1831; andHistoire chronologique du Cholera, Paris, 1870. David Craigie, M.D., “Remarks on the History and Etiology of Cholera,”Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ.XXXIX.(1833), 332. John Macpherson, M.D.,Annals of Cholera, London, 1872 and 1884. N. C. Macnamara,A History of Asiatic Cholera, London, 1876.
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