Revelations on cholera, or its causes and cure / by Samuel Dickson.

  • Dickson, Samuel, 1802-1869.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Revelations on cholera, or its causes and cure / by Samuel Dickson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sums spent in gin-palaces and public-houses in increasing the tendency to Cholera would be more than sufficient to accomplish both the above power- ful means of prevention. It is also important to avoid crowded ill-ventilated sleeping apart- ments, and it should be borne in mind that night is the period of greatest Habihty to attacks of Cholera. There can be no doubt that, were the system of model lodging-houses-so extended as its complete success so far proves it might be, the victims of Cholera would be greatly diminished, merely by the increased comfort, healthfulness, and cheerfulness of a residence in such apartments. It may be taken as a proved fact, that Cholera is not caused by any pestilent exhalation; it does not rise from choked-up sewers or cesspools, or open stagnant drains, or the churning of a city's filth up and down its rivers; but each and all of these debih- tate, and dispirit, and weaken the power of resist- ance to disease. Under such circumstances, the healthful alternations of motion and temperature are in the condition most easy of disturbance, and most liable to be upset by the conditions, what- ever they may be, that give rise to the epidemic of the day. It becomes, therefore, the public duty of every individual, to see that Government and the various local authorities do not sleep over sanitaiy measm-es, and that no pretence of vested rights be alloAved to stand in the way of the prompt re-