Notes on the transmission of cholera from one country to another / by Robert Lawson.

  • Lawson, Robert.
Date:
1891
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    condemns it, the sooner are they likely to open up another leading to more precise and abiding results. Among the instances which have occurred of late years of the outbreak of malignant cholera at points in advance of those the disease had already reached in the epidemic form, three may be particularised as having been carefully examined into by most able investigators, viz., those at Southampton in 1865, by Dr. Parkes, and at Theydon Bois, in Essex, the same year, by Mr. Radcliife; that at New Orleans, in 1873, by the board of health there; and that at Toulon aud Marseilles, in 1884, by M. Fauvel, Drs. Brouardel and Proust, and others from Paris, and at Toulon. In none of these was there any trace of communi- cation by sick or fomites detected. As the time for reading each paper is but fifteen minutes, it is necessary to confine the remarks here to the barest details, to keep within the prescribed limits. In the summer of 1865, it will be remembered that the whole of the northern coast of the Mediterranean was invaded by cholera, and this advanced northward gradually, reaching Paris in the end of September only, though there were well marked indications of its approach at many points to the north of Paris even months earlier. Thus there was a fatal case in the Borough (London) on 28th June, with all the characters of malignant cholera, and another, which recovered, in Guy's Hospital, in the beginning of July. There was a case of the same description at Southampton on 12th August, and through England and Scotland, and even in Denmark, and south of Sweden, cholera nostras was unusually frequent during the summer and early autumn, and with many more cases of the malignant form than in ordinary years. At Southampton the outbreak commenced with a man named Rose, who resided in Brew House Court, five furlongs west of the railway station, who was seized on 22nd September, and died on 24th; the next case was in a lad named Hill, who resided with his family at Weston Common, two miles from Southampton, who was attacked on the 23rd September, his father and sister fol- lowing on the 26th. On 27th a man named Staveley and his son were attacked at Bitterne, a village two miles from Southampton in a different direction. On the 28th there was another attack of cholera in Southampton itself, and the disease went on from this date to the 4th IS^ovember, when, including all the localities named, there had been 6o persons attacked. In the Theydon Bois case Mr. Groombridge and his wife had been at Weymouth and Portland for change, in September. After exposure to a cold wind on the 23rd Mr. Groombridge had