Volume 1

On the extermination or annihilation of the Asiatic cholera. To the Right Hon. Viscount Melbourne, Secretary for the Home Department, &c / [Euphemizon].

  • Euphemizon, pseud.
Date:
[1832]
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Credit: On the extermination or annihilation of the Asiatic cholera. To the Right Hon. Viscount Melbourne, Secretary for the Home Department, &c / [Euphemizon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXTERMINATION OR ANNIHILATION OF THE ASIATIC CHOLERA. TO THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT MELBOURNE, Secretary for the Home Department, Sfc. My Loud, A whole year has elapsed since the Cholera entered Britain, and it still proceeds, quitting one place and attacking another; nor from any thing hitherto done, have we reason yet to hope, that its malignity will be diminished, its course re¬ sisted, or its duration terminated. We are now sensible, that the Cholera respects nor age, nor sex, nor rank, nor power. The suffering of its ravages once, is no security against its return: since the year 1817 it has visited Calcutta, I believe, twelve times. Commerce interrupted, general im¬ poverishment, the treasury exhausted, the lower orders starv¬ ing, costly Boards of Health, and thousands perishing, form the picture of our state. Man is an indolent creature, and would rather endure a great deal than deviate from his wonted habits. This natural apathy, assisted perhaps by a little self-sufficiency, will account for attachment to antiquated systems. But, after a plan has been acted on over the greater part of the civilized world for fifteen years, attended only with wide-spreading mortality, it is surely time to pause, and consider, whether some change might A