Observations on the pestilential cholera, (asphyxia pestilenta), as it appeared at Sunderland in the months of November and December, 1831 : and on the measures taken for its prevention and cure / by William Ainsworth.

  • Ainsworth, William, 1807-1896.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the pestilential cholera, (asphyxia pestilenta), as it appeared at Sunderland in the months of November and December, 1831 : and on the measures taken for its prevention and cure / by William Ainsworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lengthened immunity from the disease; and that many towns have as yet been preserved from the malady by the excellence of our quarantine regulations. The lav/s of the freedom of rivers and ports, and the precautions taken for the safety both of coasting and of foreign navigation, entailed by the natural difficulties of the art, and the necessity of impeding surreptitious commerce, render any arrangements with regard to navigation more effective than even the internal police of the most despotic govern- ment. If, then, quarantine regulations have been really useful in warding off the new dis- ease, as they have been found by the experience of ages to do with regard to other infectious disorders, it must be expected that the present malady will have shewn itself where those laws have been neglected or infringed, or where local circumstances prevented their successful adop- tion. To this last fact alone I attribute the breaking out of the disease in Sunderland ; and it will be easy to shew, that natural ob- stacles lay in the way of any effectual quaran- tine on the Wear, which do not exist to a similar extent in any other place admitted as fit for the performance of a rigorous quarantine. These difficulties were afterwards attempted to