Report on the epidemic of typhus in Aberdeen during the years 1863-1866 / by R. Beveridge.

  • Beveridge, R. (Robert)
Date:
1868
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Credit: Report on the epidemic of typhus in Aberdeen during the years 1863-1866 / by R. Beveridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [1864. JANUARY, 1864. In this month occurred the last of the cases from Smith’s Court, Castle Street, Huteheon Street, and from the Green, but the disease continued in the other locali¬ ties named, and especially in Water Lane, Causewayend, Lower Denbum (where, after this time, it ceased for three months), and it also appeared in Pork Lane (where it raged with severity for four months), Church Street (where the simultaneous removal of four members of the same family seems to have stopped its progress, as only one other case appears from that quarter), Meal Market Street (where it lasted but two months), Guestrow (where it continued five months at this time), the Vic¬ toria Lodging House (where it also continued five months), Nelson Street (where, including Nelson Lane, it lasted three months), George Street (where at this time it continued four months), Park Street (where it continued five months), and Upperkirkgate (where, with one or two intervals, it continued sixteen months). Five cases were brought from the outskirts of the town, and two patients and two nurses in the Infirmary were at- acked. FEBRUARY. During this month the chief seats of the disease, among places already mentioned, were Albion Street, Gardiner’s Lane, Guestrow, the Poor-House, West North Street, and Virginia Street, while of new localities it ap¬ peared in Footdee (where it continued for four months), and Trinity Street (where it lasted for three months);
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