The history of cholera in Exeter in 1832 / by Thomas Shapter.

Date:
1849
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    CHAPTER XI. Consecration of Bedford Chapel; Assizes ; Payment of Wages 196—202 Bedford Chapel consecrated, 196; assizes held, 197; charge of Mr. Jus- tice Patteson, 199; theatre opened, 200 ; entry in city prison book, ih.; drunkenness, &c., of lower orders, and handbill on the payment of wages, 201. CHAPTER XII. Correspondence with other Boards .... 203, 204 Examples of, 203; anonymous letters, with suggestions, 204. CHAPTER XIII. Account of the Asiatic Cholera as it occurred in Exeter . 205—234 First cases, and official report of, 205 ; Dr. Blackall’s letter thereon, 207 ; official returns of, 208; general account of the symptoms of Cholera, 210; Cholera modified by circumstances, 214; total deaths from Cho- lera and other causes, 216; influence of age, 218 ; of sex, 221; of oc- cupation, 222 ; of climate, ib.; of locality, 223 ; re-appearance of Cho- lera in 1833 and 1834, and cases in 1846, 224; nature of the disease, 225 ; proximate origin, 226 ; mode of propagation, 228 ; period of incu- bation, 230; predisposing causes, ib. ; treatment, 231; forms required by Central Board on treatment, ib. CHAPTER XIV. Various incidents ; abuse of medical men j day of humiliation, fyc. 235—254 Existence of Cholera denied, 235 ; riots, 236 ; medical men insulted, 237 ; handbills relating thereto, 239; remarkable incidents illustrating the desolation of the City, 241 ; increase of profligacy, ib.; effects of anxiety, 242; rapid course of disease, 243; numbers dead at same time, 246 ; neglect, examples of, ib.; undertakers and burials, ib.; Dawlish case and trial at sessions, 250 ; day of humiliation appointed, 252; handbill, 253 ; account of, ib. b ‘2