An historical account of the plague, and other pestilential distempers which have appear'd in Europe ... from the birth of Christ to the presnt time. To which is added, an account of the cholera morbus / [R. Goodwin].

  • Goodwin, R.
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[1832]
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Credit: An historical account of the plague, and other pestilential distempers which have appear'd in Europe ... from the birth of Christ to the presnt time. To which is added, an account of the cholera morbus / [R. Goodwin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ceres, of London, which lately arrived at Limerick, from Quebec; she sailed on the 2]st of June. “The town was in the most deplorable state from the cholera morbus. Houses, shops, stores, and counting-house, shut up and deserted; only two clerks remaining at the Custom-house. Num- bers of persons dying in the streets; most of the hospitals are shut up, for want of doctors and persons to attend them; the ships half loaded could not find people to load them.” Some of the private letters state the number of eases of Cholera already reported amount to 800, and the deaths to something more than half. There is no official report to this effect from the Board of Health at Quebec, and we imagine that the fears of the parties from whom the accounts are derived have induced them rather to exaggerate than otherwise the effects of this disease. PRINTED BY RICHARD BURDEKIN, YORK.