On the mode of communication of cholera / by John Snow.

  • John Snow
Date:
1855
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Credit: On the mode of communication of cholera / by John Snow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He informed the surgeons that his uncle’s wife (his father’s sister) had died of cholera a fortnight before that time, and that, as she had no children, her wearing ap- parel had been sent to Monkton by a common carrier. The clothes had not been washed ; Barnes had opened the box in the evening; on the next day he had fallen sick of the disease. During the illness of Mrs. Barnes, her mother, who was living at Tockwith, a healthy village five miles dis- tant from Moor Monkton, was requested to attend her. She went to Monkton accordingly, remained with her daughter for two days, washed her daughter’s linen, and set out on her return home, apparently in good health. Whilst in the act of walking home she was seized with the malady, and fell down in collapse on the road. She was conveyed home to her cottage, and placed by the side of her bedridden husband. He, and also the daughter who resided with them, took the malady. All the three died within two days. Only one other case occurred in the village of Tockwith, and it was not a fatal case.” (p. 136.) A man came from Hull (where cholera was prevail- ing), by trade a painter; his name and age are unknown. He lodged at the house of Samuel Wride, at Pockliugton ; was attacked on his arrival on the 8th of September, and died on the 9th. Samuel Wride himself was attacked on the 11th of September, and died shortly afterwards. These comprise the first cases. “ The next was that of a person named Kneeshaw, who had been at Wride’s house. But as this forms one of a series connected with the former, furnished by Dr. Lay- cock, who has very obligingly taken the trouble to verify the dates and facts of the latter part of the series, it will be best to give the notes of these cases in that gentleman’s own words.