Volume 1

Report of the General Board of Health on the epidemic cholera of 1848 & 1849.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health
Date:
1850
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the General Board of Health on the epidemic cholera of 1848 & 1849. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS, . APPENDIX A. Report on the Epidemic Cholera of 1848-49 . e : Districts under Inspection .. : . : : Localizing Causes of Cholera. . ° ° 3 : Signs of an Epidemic Constitution . . ° ‘ Epidemics haunt the same localities s ° . Marks of developed Cholera . . ° . : : Localizing Causes of Cholera... ea Illustrations of localizing Causes of Ohler eerie of Diet Fatal results of overcrowding and defective Ventilation . Cholera in Taunton Union Workhouse . o@, < Predisposing effects of bad Water Supply . ° ° Fatal effects of Emanations from Town Refuse ° 3 Predisposing effects of Dampness : Sanitary evils from defective Structure of age Heneeitea Greater liability of top flats to Cholera . . 2 ° Outbreak of Cholera in Redcross-street, Bristol . 4 -Fatal results of defective Sanitary improvements . ° Effects of overcrowded’Grave-yards . ° ° Effects of Malaria in producing attacks of Cholera. Fatal effects of intemperate habits during Epidemics ° Fatal effects of fatigue —. . ° . : Abstract of localizing causes of Cholera ° . e Localizing causes removable . ° . e ° Places of Refuge . : : : ° ° Premonitory Stage of Gusiets ° : ° . . Identity of Cholera in its progressive Stages . . : Necessity of checking the earlier Stages ° . ; Apathy produced by the poison of Cholera. . ° Necessity of House-to-House Visitation... A : Medical House-to-House Visitation : . ° : ‘Organization of House-to-House Visitation . “ Medical Visitation first adopted in Dumfries . e ° Striking results of Medical Visitation . ° ° ° Reports on Cholera in Dumfries . ° . . ; Report on Cholera in Glasgow . . ° igs Manchester ° ° ° ° 2° i Hull . ® ° ° ° @ ats Sheffield . ° : ‘ Abstract of Reports on Cholera in bavernoak ° ° ° aie y5 Wolverhampton - e re Mia se Dundee . ° ° sath 3 ' Hamilton .. . . ae pie Glengarnock Iron-works. ae . * Carnbroe . ° ° ‘Ks % Leeds ° * 4 pe 5s ites Sunderland . : x > | Edinburgh . . Bristol . ° ba Neasianen: of Home ‘Treatment of Cholera . : Statistics of Home and Hospital Treatment- . ‘ © es e e g ® e @ e Coatbridge ° ° 111-113 anti Lee 115-117 sEbEs biipehhO seabtae Pole visngnl 22 125, 126 Ba e 129
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