A manual of practical hygiene / by Edmund A. Parkes ; edited by F.S.B. Francois de Chaumont.

Date:
1878
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    were washed into the stream supplying the village Between June and Octoher 1872 no less than 76 cases occurred out of a population of 832 persons All those attacked drank the stream water hah tually or occasxonaUy in who used s*St2?5£ S^W^ ^S^i though Sitedwk excremerTt for years, no enteric fever appeared untd an nnported polluted witn excrement ioi £ evidence of this kind seems conclusive, case mtoduced he,wj that the presence of typhoid evacua- and \^™™J™£^7 Common fecal matter may produce diarrhoea, ^»m^^,S5feSL*lint for the production of enteric fever the which may P^aps he ™ opinioilPthat the stools of typhoid are r^eSL poison wa^fhst I helieve, explicitly stated hy Canstatt,t and has heen also ahly argued hy W. Budd. Cholera. HW of the earlier investigators of cholera appear to have imagined that the Se^oloft^udrn^ of impure water, bnt in a TT&Utte late Dr Snow, in investigating some chcumscribedoutbreaks clnsion that, in these m»tan«*, *e toease arose nom. fading their way into the J^W^ that this w£ the ease, »!»'X::. eTrlwe^SdPthe very great merit of — and to Dr Snow must cenauuj certs,inlT, the evidence was defective,? ing this most important fact. At nrsVcertami.y, occurred the but gradually fresh ins ance^J^ tonfan, which was investi- celehrated instance of the Broad Street .pump jjj'j^ Marshall, of gated by » ^^Z^ltlZ^Zr, llams the most convincing Kh&TtSct^y^,{he poison of cholera,ound its v urn Tf Unud-Moore (London Medical Record, May 27, 1874, * A good instance is given by Mr R. Bond Moore y ious] the water supply became page 327) as occurring at Sedgley Park sc ooh rwoy ^ ^ ^ t there w contaminated with ordinary sewage, -b™.p™^taration. The leaking drain was repaired typhosenAftergebilde im £«_dle TraSeI deS °°ntag Ther. 2d edit, band u. p. 5/2 (1847). Hanover, 1848, p. 36. t Einiee Bemerkungen uber die As at. Cholera u ™ • u ; ^ at that time, all 8 tZi-b seemed at once an a priori argument ^vel^„,w ^able of causing the disease. evidenhc vr8 against the idea of <*°&? «•* They had been tasted and drunk (in 1832) by men and been g ^ ^ flmda Persons inoculated themselves m dissections constant >, ana h the washenvomen be added the ^iMtfeiu the British and Foreign Medical Chirurgical B* early cases. (ocerevio« . evidence of Dr Dundas Thomson, p.