Second report of the commissioners appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis : with minutes of evidence.

  • Great Britain. Metropolitan Sanitary Commission.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Second report of the commissioners appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis : with minutes of evidence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. REPORT. Page Epidemic cholera an example of epidemic disease in general 1 Conditions on which the progress of cholera depends 2 Attack of villages in low marshy places , 3 Meteorological conditions of the spread of cholera ........ 4 Circumstances of its recent progress towards Europe . ...... 5 Isolation does not prevent its attacks. High situations exempt .... 6 Precautions taken in Russia 7 Beneficial effects of making generally known the fact that cholera is not con- tagious , 8 General coincidence of medical men in the opinion that cholera is not con- tagious .....10 Instances where it is said that the disease was communicated from one person to another, furnish no proof ..............12 Sources of popular fallacy in respect to contagion 14 General abandonment of the doctrines of contagion 15 Cholera is always preceded by simple diarrhoea, which is the premonitory symptom ]6 The looseness of the bowels which precedes cholera, admits of an easy and ef- fectual cure , 18 Cholera was very much diminished at Bilston, by opening Dispensaries for diarrhoea .20 Mode of treatment of the premonitory diarrhoea, so as to arrest the disease en- tirely , 22 Fatal consequences of disregarding the premonitory symptom ..... 24 Diarrhoea extensively prevalent in the metropolis of late ...... 26 Epidemics assimilate existing diseases to their own type . . . • . . 27 Examples of extensive coincidence of disease with bad sanitary conditions throughout the metropolis .28 Effects of the contaminated air on the City missionaries ....... 30 Former inspections of the dwellings of the labouring classes 31 Recommendation to re-establish local boards of health , . 32 Properties of deodorizing and disinfecting substances ,33 Disinfectants cannot supersede ventilation and cleanliness ...... 34 Late increase of mortality surpasses cholera in 1832 35 Epidemic influenza connected with humidity and sudden changes .... 36 Period of influenza in London commenced about 18th November .... 37 Broke out in Edinburgh during a sudden cooling and intense fog .... 38 Model lodging-house and well-kept prisons, comparatively exempt ... 39 The marshy suburbs of the metropolis were most afiected 40 Greater mortality from other diseases than from influenza 41 Drainage of land improves the health of the inhabitants 42 Examinations made of the condition of the suburbs of the metropolis ... 43 Great extent of marshes, especially in the North, South, and East districts . 44 Calculated extent Qf Essex marshes .46