Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin.

  • Macloughlin, David, 1786-1870.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was particularly discoloured in her skin, before or after death. This child had been taken out before the door, but had not been taken to any house. Diarrhcca was prevailing amongst the children in the neigh- bourhood, but not in the house where she lived. Case No. 8. July lUh, 1855.—See the Registrar General's Weekly Report, July 28th, 1855. At No. 5, Pleasant Place, Uxbridge Road, on the 24th July, the daughter of a servant, aged nine months, cho- leraic diarrhoea, forty-eight hours. I have seen the person who had charge of this child. The child had been weaned about three weeks. She was thriving, when she was suddenly seized with diarrhoea in the morning early, about four o'clpck. This diarrhoea continued all day with- out any spasms or vomiting; when both came on in the evening, and persisted off and on all night. Next day the purging, spasms, and vomiting, ceased; but the child sank next morning. She had had regular medical attendance shortly after she was taken ill, and up to the last moment of her existence. This child had not been taken further than the front of the door where she was at nurse. The house is clean and well aired. There was no case of diarrhoea or cholera in the house, or in tlic neighbourhood, previous to this child's illness, nor has there been any since her death: therefore she cannot have cau<j:ht the disease from aiiv one.