Observations on the pestilential cholera (asphyxia pestilenta) as it appeared at Sunderland in the months of November and December, 1831; and on the measures taken for its prevention and cure / by William Ainsworth.

  • Ainsworth, William, 1807-1896.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the pestilential cholera (asphyxia pestilenta) as it appeared at Sunderland in the months of November and December, 1831; and on the measures taken for its prevention and cure / by William Ainsworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dicants and vagrants. Dennis M'Gwin, who took the disease to North Shields, came from Sunderland. The first case in South Shields was a boy from Gateshead. A pedlar-woman took it to Houghton —a traveller to Morpeth; and I have no doubt its arrival could similarly be traced to Durham, Haddington, and Tra- nent ; all towns upon the same high road. A wanderer also perished of the disease at Doncaster; but luckily there were no other cases. The duty of all local boards of health, after securing their town from the inroads of those most predisposed to the attacks of the disease, most liable to have been in its vicinity, and most likely to be the bearers of its fatal germs, is to provide hospitals for the immediate re- ception of the afflicted. In all towns and in all countries it is difficult to get people to go to public institutions for the recovery of health ; the middling classes will not go, and the poorer offer the greatest resistance to removal from their homes. Wherever a person has a room of his own, and proper precautions can be taken, it may be needless, as it may be im- practicable, to effect this removal; but when, as so often occurs in populous towns, many