Cholera map of Ireland : with observations / by Sir Dominic Corrigan.

  • Corrigan, Dominic John, 1802-1880.
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cholera map of Ireland : with observations / by Sir Dominic Corrigan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Leinster.—il towns of 2,000 inhabitants and upwards, of whicli 9 escaped ; 32 were visited by cbolera. MuNSTER.—47 towns, of which 5 escaped and 42 suffered. CoNNAUGHT.—14 towns, of wMch not one es- caped. It appears to me impossible to look at the Map and these returns, without admitting the conclusion, that whether cholera may or may not become contagious, the element of contagion is of comparatively little impor- tance ; and that our best protection will be, not in devoting too much of our energies to combat this element, but in improving the safeguards or protective powers that will render the frames of the people able to resist the influences that spread the disease, telluric, atmospheric, or contagious, as they may be. In the year 1849^ the Commissioners of Health, Ireland, addressed to the several medical officers throughout the country, from whom reports were re- ceived of the first appearance of cholera, a circular, with the view of eliciting information on the disputed question of contagion :— ''To this, thirty-seven replies were received, which may be thus classed : eight, doubtful; six, in support of the view of the first attack in the locality owing its origin to contagion ; and twenty-three replies, stating that the attack could not be traced