A history of Asiatic cholera / by C. MacNamara.

Date:
1876
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Credit: A history of Asiatic cholera / by C. MacNamara. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rocky and the soil sandy, the cholera has made very little impression. In Siebenbiirgen, for instance, only 12 of 10,000 were attacked, and 6 of these fatally. Hungary gives a marked example of this : the general average of sufferers proved to be one-ninth to one-fourth of the inhabitants, and the deaths one-eighth to one- ninth or one-tenth ; whereas in the hilly part of Eisen- burg, of 10,000 persons only 6 were attacked, and only i in 12,000 fell a sacrifice. Dr. Bickes next compares the number of cases occur- ring in inland towns, situated in a plain surrounded by mountains, with the number occurring in towns on the sea-coast. Of the former, Sassin had the greatest mor- tality, being, relatively to 10,000 people, 1,936 attacked with 1,030 deaths; this the author attributes to the locality of the town, which is a boggy slough, having streets that are very narrow and laid with planks. The greater portion of its inhabitants is composed of Jews and Gipsies, whose cleanliness is not remark- able. Debreczyn, lying in a flat, in Hungary, notwithstanding a triple cordon, suffered 2,106, the greatest proportion of attacks, and 746 deaths. Thorn and Posen, on the Weichsel, are of the same character — the former had 452 attacked and 286 fatally, the latter had 356 sufferers and 208 deaths. Tilsit, washed by the Memel flowing through greatly infected districts, suffered in the proportion of 346 attacks and 189 deaths; while Bromberg, which is
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