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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    VI.] MEDITERRANEAN AND WEST INDIES. 173- Canada cholera prevailed extensively between the months of July and September 1850. It does not appear to have extended from the east as in 1832, but rather from the United States. A few cases only occurred at Cross Isle, the quarantine station on the St. Lawrence below Quebec ; whereas in the first epidemic this station suffered very severely.* During the year 1850, cholera of a virulent type again broke out in Egypt, and along the whole of the African sea-board of the Mediterranean. It did not, however, in any instance, spread beyond three days’ journey into the desert.t Slight outbursts of the disease at the same time occurred over the greater part of Europe and America : in fact, cholera was reproduced over the area invaded by it during the previous years. Beyond this, localities hitherto free from its influence were now attacked, as for instance Malta and Gozo. Cephalonia, one of the Ionian group, was affected in July, “ the population being reduced to famine by means of the rigorous quarantine, which excluded them from all intercourse with Greece, and with their brethren;” nevertheless,. Greece was preserved from cholera throughout this epidemic, as she had been in the former visitations of the disease to Europe in 1832 and 1837. During the year 1850 cholera spread over Mexico and California. In October, Cuba and Jamaica were under its influence : this was the first time the latter island had been visited by cholera, and it committed the * Medico-CkirurgicalReview, 1865, p. 446. t Report of the Constantinople Conference, p. 101. Calcutta, 1868.
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