Cholera gleanings, a family hand book, enabling readers of all classes to judge for themselves of the great error into which governments were unfortunately led by men looked upon as infallible guides, who very strenuously maintained the cholera to be a disease during which "The living shall fly from the sick they should cherish." / By J. Gillkrest.

  • Gillkrest, J. (James), -1853.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Cholera gleanings, a family hand book, enabling readers of all classes to judge for themselves of the great error into which governments were unfortunately led by men looked upon as infallible guides, who very strenuously maintained the cholera to be a disease during which "The living shall fly from the sick they should cherish." / By J. Gillkrest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SooTHWARK (13, Silver-Street, a similar court to the last, and adjoiuing it). Margaret Donoughoe, aged 40, a fruitseller, occupying a miserable room on a second floor, in a badly ventilated wooden house, was attacked with unequivocal symptoms on the morning of the 13th jiist., and died at 8 p.m. on Wednesday. The corpse was ''laid out oxx a bed for one day. During her illness, and up to the time of inter- ment, five children had slept in the same room, and, up to Sunday night last, when I visited the place, none of those children were attacked. Up to this day, none of them have been reported as being attacked. On Thursday last, her eldest daughter having been ques- tioned, stated, in the presence of a military officer, that, of perhaps 100 of her Irish friends and neighbours, who had been in the room during the illness, and after the death of her mother, she did not hear of one having been attacked. Had the whole of these wretched chil- dren (who, by the way, are the greatest objects of charity) been attacked, it would surely not be necessary to look for the agency of contagion as the cause, all being equally exposed to local causes; the special susceptibility in the mother having arisen, very probably, from her often being obliged to Check her own appetite, and give them all. Chelsea (No. 8, Royal Hospital-row). No spreading has taken place from the body of Jane Halliday, laundress, attacked at 5 a. m., on Friday, the 17th of February, who died at half-past 7 on the 18th—two persons in constant attendance during her illness. About 20 persons, including medical men, occa- sionally entered the room during the illness, and after the death of^ this woman, whose case, according to the minute details furnished by the surgeon who attended her, was unquestionably one of malignant cholera, such as is now prevalent on other points in London. The body, placed in a coffin, lay in the next room to that in which the femily lives, on the 19th instant, the lid being occasionally removed by the relatives. In this house, which appeai-s very comfortable, there is another family of three persons. No other pei-son attacked. [Inserted jn the Times or Febrcary 24, 1832.] SoTJTHWARK (11, Duke-strect). Jane Bafley, aged 40, a pauper with three children, inhabiting a small room in the above nan'ow and filthy sti-eet, attacked on the morning of the 15th, died on the evening of the 16th. Five other families lived in the same house during her illness, none of the mem- bers of which have, up to this evening, when I visited the house, been attacked, though several had assisted in nursing her, rubbing her limbs, &c. Her clothes had lieen washed by individuals in the house, and, in the room in which she died, 1 this day saw a fresh set of lodguvs, and in the next room there arc also frcah lodgers, making in H 2