On the exciting cause of the Asiatic cholera and the means to be adopted to prevent its spread / by Michael Thos. Sadler.

  • Sadler, Michael Thomas.
Date:
1866
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Credit: On the exciting cause of the Asiatic cholera and the means to be adopted to prevent its spread / by Michael Thos. Sadler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cause the disease. I may here observe that, to w knowledge, there were only three houses affected wid cholera in the northern part of the town in the y«ai 1849. One was the case of a man living in a houseii Shambles-street. He had been attending some of hii relations, residing in Union row, who had fatal attaob of the cholera. His case was not a severe one; ii might be called cholerine, but I knew that he had been exposed to the infection of Asiatic cholera, therf fore l| believed it to be a mild form of this disease. AVlien ]| first saw him, he had two of his children in bed with him. I told him the danger they were in, and they were removed, but in a few days they both died with un- mistakeable symptoms of Asiatic cholera. The other two houses were those of tradesmen. One had been to Bradford, where the cholera was raging, and was seized with the disease soon after bis return. The other had been residing in the neighbourhood of Wake- field, where the cbolera was prevalent. He came to Bamsley to ■visit his friends, with the incipient Bvm. toms of this disease. Both these cases were rather ther severe ones; but the patients recovered, and were not followed by any other in their households. | I could adduce equally strong facts to show the in-4 fectious nature of cholera, from what occurred in thaj neighbouring village of Cawthome when this disease] was introduced there in the year 1849 by a persouj affected with cholerine. A number of fatal cases ofi cholera followed soon after its introduction, and the ovidenco M'as so clear that it was infectious that I think I may safely say that tliere was not any person in the village who did not believe that infection was the sole cause of its spread. I believe that facts attending the history of cholera' in Bamsley and the neighbourhood plainly show that the most national way for individuals to protect them- selves from attacks of this disease, and boards of health to prevent the spread of it, is to guard against the infection producing it. The vital question is, what are the best means to prevept the spread of the poisoj; causing cholti.T