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

  • Snow, John, 1813-1858
Date:
1849
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Credit: On the mode of communication of cholera / by John Snow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    leraic diarrhoea on July 30th; she recovered. On August 1st, a lady, aged 81, at No. 6, who had had some diarrhoea eight or ten days before, which had yielded to her own treatment, was attacked with cho¬ lera ; she died on the 4th with congested brain. Diar¬ rhoea commenced on August 1st, in a lady, aged 60, at No. 3; collapse took place on the 5th, and death on the 6th. On August 3d, there were three or four cases in different parts of the row of houses, and two of them terminated fatally on the same day. The attacks were numerous during the following three or four days, and after that time they diminished in num¬ ber. More than half the inhabitants of the part of the terrace in which the cholera prevailed were attacked with it, and upwards of half the cases were fatal. The deaths occurred as follows; but as some of the patients lingered a few days, and died in the consecutive fever, the deaths are less closely grouped than the seizures. There was one death on July 28th, two on August 3d, four on the 4th, two on the 6th, two on the 7th, foiu’ on the 8th, three on the 9th, one on the 11th, and one on the 13th. These make twenty fatal cases ; and there were four or five deaths besides amongst those who were attacked after flying from the place. The fatal cases were distributed over ten out of the seventeen houses, and Mr. Mimpriss, of Wandsworth Road, who attended many of the cases, and to whose kindness the writer is indebted for several of these particulars, states that cases occurred in the other seven