Report on the cholera outbreak in the parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854 / presented to the Vestry by the Cholera Inquiry Committee.

  • Saint James (Westminster, London, England : Parish). Cholera Inquiry Committee.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Report on the cholera outbreak in the parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854 / presented to the Vestry by the Cholera Inquiry Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    denly seized by the disorder whilst engaged in the usual occupations of their trade. Finally, in this extraordinary outbreak, the symp- toms of the disease quite corresponded with those of Cholera generally. The common occurrence of the attack within the fore part of the twenty-four hours, the extremely short duration of the early cases and the gradual amelioration observable in the later ones, were all plainly noticeable; and lastly, it is certainly true that in the cases occurring at the commencement of the great outburst, premonitory Diarrhoea was of short duration, or altogether absent. It will have been noticed that the preceding estimate of the results of the Cholera outbreak in St. James’s parish is founded entirely on the death statistics. The number of attacks followed by recovery is unknown; nor can any certain in- formation be collected as to the relative amount of Diarrhoea prevailing. CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE OUTBREAK. ♦ The sudden, severe, and concentrated character of the particular outburst of Cholera which has thus been depicted, and which constitutes the most