Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.

Date:
1855
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Credit: Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attained its utmost extension, and was now in process of ^^If ^however, we cannot speak with unmixed satisfaction of the materials which are before us, we can at least pomt to their nature and extent as in the highest degree encou- raging to future exertions, more extended, more systematic, and more continuous. Our principal aims, and the methods by which their attainment was sought, have been as follows :— I with a view to the descriptive history of 'cholera, we have examined the larger statistics of this invasion; as to the places wherein the disease chiefly prevailed \ as to the influence of age, sex, and employment m favouring its attack; and as to its own pathological stages and periods ;— II in the hope to gain more precise knowledge of the causes of the disease, we thought it of primary import- ance that the air and water of the metropolis during the epidemic period should be studiously observed, and that special inquiries should, as far as possible, be made into the state of these universal influences m districts actuaUy infected with cholera;—and ; III. with the object of increasing for our profession the present insufficient resources of medical treatment, we have endeavoured to procure comparative records oj various therapeutical experience, successful or unsuc- cessful, and have invited from persons versed in such inquiry an elucidation of those questions m the practical pathology of cholera which appeared to us most urgent for solution. First Section. Statistics. Of statistical material, the following has been before us y 1. We have derived from the General Register Office list'of all deaths registered during the epidemic period i caused by cholera or diarrho8a, with particulars as to tl
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