Asiatic cholera : its symptoms, pathology and treatment : with which is embodied its morbid anatomy, general and minute, translated from a paper by Drs. Reinhardt and Leubuscher / by Richard Barwell.

  • Barwell, Richard, 1827-1916.
Date:
MDCCCLIII [1853]
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Credit: Asiatic cholera : its symptoms, pathology and treatment : with which is embodied its morbid anatomy, general and minute, translated from a paper by Drs. Reinhardt and Leubuscher / by Richard Barwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    usual electric and magnetic balance of earth and air, (which latter theory to be received requires more proof.) Now, the disease attacked in preference, and most violently, those parts of town, where the lowest sanitary conditions existed, and was elsewhere hardly felt; it returned, says the report, in 1848, to the same courts and filthy alleys, to the same houses, aye, in many in- stances, to the same rooms, as in 1832 ; where- ever fever was sporadic and most fatal, where- ever scarlatina was malignant, and where small- pox assumed its worst forms, there did cholera show itself in its most deadly shape: thus in the parish of Bermondsey, the proportion of deaths to the number of inhabitants was 278 to 10,000, while in the Han over-square district of the St. George’s, Hanover-square, parish, 3 to 10,000 was the proportion; while in Jacob’s Island, a horrible and filthy den of loathsomeness, disease, and crime, no less than 61 deaths occurred among 300 inhabitants, more, namely, than one fifth of the whole popu- lation, making the proportion 2033 : 10,000. The ratio between the deaths in these parts of town is 3,278, 2033—showing that the choleraic influence, whatever it may be, is comparatively harmless in this climate at least, unless mixed