Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin.

  • Macloughlin, David, 1786-1870.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Foley Street, where the above-named woman lodged, and she informed me that the woman had been ailing for some months in consequence of a change in life; that she, however, went about and attended to her household affairs; that ten days before her death she was seized during the night with diar- rhoea, which continued increasing in violence on her till she sank, with, however, little vomiting or pain. She was much reduced in size at the moment of her death, but her skin was not discoloured. No one in the house suffered from diarrhoea before or after the death of this woman ; and her daughter, who washed all the soiled linen, has not had diarrhoea, or been in the slightest way indisposed. . Case No. 14. lith August, 1855.—See the Registrar General's Weekly Keturn, 11th August, 1855. Lambeth, Lambeth Church (first part), at 5, Asylum Place, on the 5th August, the son of a gardener, aged eighteen months, choleraic diarrhoea. T have seen this child's mother, and she in- formed me that this boy was subject to diarrhoea from his birth ; that a week before his death he was attacked with diarrhoea again ; but, as he was subject to such attacks, this was considered by her merely a repetition of what he was subject to; but when he began to vomit and purge violently, she became alarmed, and sent for medical advice. But it was too late: nothing relieved the child. The child had not, the mother said, been beyond the door of her house since his birth; he had not seen any one labouring under diarrhoea or under cholera; and