Notes on the origin, nature, prevention, and treatment of Asiatic cholera / by John C. Peters.

  • Peters, John C. (John Charles), 1819-1893.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Notes on the origin, nature, prevention, and treatment of Asiatic cholera / by John C. Peters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEVENTION. The three great means of prevention against a general epi- demic are, Quarantine, Cleanliness, and Disinfection. 1. QUARANTINE. As cholera is always brought to this country and cit>- in ships, a long-continued and most rigid quarantine should be maintained. There is every reason to suppose that that of 1866, severe as it has been, was not suflBciently so. Three weeks' de- tention in quarantine after the last case is none too long, even when coupled with the most perfect dismfection of clothing and baggage. In Em-ope, the general impression is that cholera cannot be excluded by quarantine ; still, there are not a few instances which prove that it may. At Sarepta, on the Volga, there is a settlement of Moravians, which, duruig three several epidemics, of the whole surromiding country, remained untouched. In addition to their proverbially good and cleanly habits, these thoughtful people maintained a perfect system of quarantine. Again, there have been fourteen epidemics of cholera at Staten Island, and only four have reached New York. It cannot then be said that quarantine, even in the careless and inefficient manner in wliich it has, for the most part, been heretofore enforced, has been altogether a failure here. But recent occurrences prove that it must be very rigid to be successful. On the 14th of July, 1866, Mrs. McCoy, a hospital nurse from the quarantine ship Falcon, visited Ward's Island, and was attacked with cholera ; her two chil- dren, who had spent the greater part of the previous day witli her, were next attacked. On the 16th, Mrs. Burns, a very healthy woman, and companion of Mrs. JlcCoy, sickened and