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

  • John Snow
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    CONTENTS. PAGE Outline of the history of cholera .... 1 Cases proving its communication from person to person . .3 Cholera not communicated by means of effluvia . . 9 The pathology of cholera indicates the manner in which it is communicated . . . . . .10 Analysis of the blood and evacuations in cholera . 11 and 14 Cholera is propagated by the morbid poison entering the alimentary canal . . . . . .15 Evidence of this mode of communication in the crowded habi- tations of the poor . . . . .17 amongst the mining population . . 19 Instances of the communication of cholera through the medium of polluted water, in Horsleydown . . .23 at Albion Terrace, Wandsworth Road . . 25 at Ilford and near Bath . . .32 at Newburn on the Tyne . . .33 at Cunnatore . . . . .35 in the Black Sea Fleet . . . .36 in the neighbourhood of Broad St., Golden Sq. 38 at Hampstead West End (the water being car- ried from Broad Street) . . . .44 Explanation of the Map showing the situation of the deaths in and around Broad Street, Golden Square . . 45 Table of attacks and deaths near Golden Square . . 49 Outbreak of cholera at Deptford caused by polluted water . 55 Communication of cholera by means of the water of rivers which receive the contents of the sewers . . .56 Influence of the water supply on the epidemic of 1832, in London ....... 57
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