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.

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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    river ; those to the south are mostly narrow pas- sages, crowded with the thickly-populated hou- ses of the poor, badly paved, with a gutter in the centre, where all the filth of human habitations is heedlessly thrown, and still more carelessly left to accumulate for weeks together, open upon the town moor,* — a large piece of pas- ture-land stretching to the sea-side, and which, from the tenacious nature of the substratum, is marshy in the winter months, and its roads almost impassable. The barracks flank this moor on the one side, and the parish-church and poor-house are at the other end. Bishop- wearmouth has the advantage of being inhabited by the wealthier classes : it is a neat, well- built, and airy town, in which the pestilential disease scarcely ever dared to shew itself. Much inconvenience results from this great difference between the two parishes; for, all the wealthier persons taking up their abode in Bishopwearmouth, the poor of Sunderland are deprived even of the few resources which * This was the great focus of the Cholera. The day on which Magendie arrived, I had the honour of taking him to visit cases in these streets; and his first request was, to fur- nish him with a bottle of the air which circulates in them, that it might be subjected to analysis! c