A lecture on diarrhoea and cholera, their nature, symptoms, treatment and prevention / by John Dixon.

  • John Dixon
Date:
1871
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    A LECTUEE ON DIARRHCEA AND CHOLERA. The singular and mysterious disease known as Asiatic, Epidemic, or Malignant Cholera is said to be described in the ancient medical wi-itings of the Hindoos; yet it is believed that, prior to A\ignst, 1817, it never assumed the malignant type and epidemic form which then and since have cliaracterised its progress. In that year the ])estilence first appeared at Jessore, a popiilous town situate on the delta of the Ganges, about 100 miles north-east of Calcutta, from whence it gi'adually spread through all the presidencies of India, visiting the Mauiitius, China, Ceylon, Arabia, and Persia; subsequently invading Tartaiy, Russia, and Ger- many, and first appearing in this country at Sunderland, on the 26tli day of October, 1831. The first cases reported in London occurred on the 13th of February, 1832, at Rother- hithe and Limehouse. During that epidemic 6.53G persons died of the disease iu London, of which 210 died in Ber- mondsey, or 7 per 1000 of the ijopulation. The next epidemic occurred in 1849, when 14,136 deaths were caused by cholera, of which 734 happened in Bermondsey, or 16 per 1000 of the jDopulation. The metropolis was again visited in 1854, when 10,675 persons fell victims to the disease, of which 834 were inhabitants of this parish, or 17 per 1000 of the jiopulation. In July, 1866, the mortality of London was doubled by an explosion of Cholera, although the ravages of the disease were principally con- fined to the east end of London. The deaths from Cho- lera in that year were 5577. Only a few cases occun-ed in this neighbourhood. During the present year this fearful malady has been prevailing in Russia and Germany, iu places •which are within a week's journey from our sliores, so that