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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    a very free stool, felt relieved, and went to bed again ; at six, when the father got up, the child had another evacuation, and from that time, till about six in the evening, he was repeatedly relieved in his bowels. At about six in the evening he began to vomit, and to have cramps, and died about three hours after. Therefore, the registrar's return is in error to say that the diarrhoea lasted only three hours. Some of the children in the court had diarrhoea, I but none had cholera, so far as he knows—certainly no one died of the disease previous to, or since his son's death. Case No. 33. Sejjt 29th.—See the R. G. W. R., 29th Sept., 1855. St. George in the East, St. Mary, at 31, Henry Street, on the 23rd Sept., the widow of a journeyman tin- plate worker, aged thirty, phthisis three months, cho- I leraic diarrhcea, fourteen days. I was informed by the persons who attended this woman, that she had not been out of her house for at least a week previous to being seized with diar- i rhcea, and that no one in the house had diarrhcea or ' cholera previous to her illness or since her death. I Case No. 34. JS'ov. lOa—See the R. G. W. R., 10th Nov., 1855. Westminster, St. Margaret, in the House of Correc- tion, the daughter of a labourer, aged ten months, choleraic diarrhoea. I I have been to the House of Correction and have seen the medical attendant, who informs me that this child and her mother were admitted into the house on the 29th October; that both appeared in perfect