Sketch of the progress of the malignant or epidemic cholera, from its arrival in America. With tables illustrative of its progress in the principal cities it has visited / by Edward Warren.
- Edward Warren
- Date:
- 1832
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sketch of the progress of the malignant or epidemic cholera, from its arrival in America. With tables illustrative of its progress in the principal cities it has visited / by Edward Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![]y5 but irregularly, to diminish, cases continuing, however, to oc¬ cur, sometimes in greater numbers, sometimes in less. Dur¬ ing the month of August, the number of deaths by cholera ap¬ pear to have been from two to eight daily. Cholera, in Montreal.—-Cases of cholera, as already mentioned, occurred in Montreal early in April, an unusual season for the cholera of the country, which does not gen¬ erally commence until the month of June. They were how¬ ever of a mild form, and soon disappeared. By the first of June, diarrhoea had become a common feature in every disease ; some mild cases of cholera also occurred. On the 9th, as above mentioned, a case of malignant cholera occurred on board the Voyageur, and terminated fatally. On the 10th, another emigrant, from the same boat, was seized with the dis¬ ease, after an evening of dissipation, and died the next day. The same night, several natives who had held no intercourse with the port, or with each other, were taken ill. The first case occurred near the old Market House ; the cases on the 10th, were in St. Lawrence suburbs, and in Sanguinette Street, distant about half a mile from the old Market House. Other cases immediately sprung up in numerous and different points ; principally in the St. Lawrence suburbs, back of the town, the Quebec suburbs, north of the town, and the St. Louis suburbs, between the two last. The disease extended rapidly toward the town, at first attacking natives principally, and afterwards emigrants who had resided a year or more in the town. Few cases appeared on the streets adjacent to the river, or the riv¬ er bank, where the emigrants were bivouacked, barely protect¬ ed from the weather by pieces of scantling supporting old blan¬ kets, rugs, or similar materials.* The more wealthy classes were next attacked, and suffered as severely as the others; while the parts of the town bordering on the port were last at¬ tacked. The disease advanced with unexampled rapidity; after rav- * Report of the Philadelphia deputation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30347178_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
