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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    1863.] Albion Street, Green, Smith’s Court, Castle Street, (where it continued three months, and where the simul¬ taneous removal, at this time, of four of the same family seems to have checked its spread for three weeks). Upper Denburn, Littlejohn Street (where it continued for five months), and Woolmanhill. Cases still continued from the country, and two more of the nurses, with three of the patients of the Infirmary, were attacked. DECEMBER. This month witnessed the close of the attack in Berry Lane, Loch Street, and East North Street, for the time at least, but it continued in the other localities named, and most notably so in Shuttle Lane (which furnished ten cases from eight different families), and extended to Spring Garden (where it lingered four months), Shiprow (where, with occasional intervals, it continued for two years), Leadside (where it lasted five months), Catherine Street (where the removal of four members of the same family, within the space of two days, seems to have checked its spread, as only one other case was brought from that locality, and that in June, 1864), Frederick Street (where the removal at intervals of two members of one family, and five of another, was followed in the succeeding month by three more cases which comprised the whole number there), the Poor-House (which for four months continued to furnish cases), Links Street, and Virginia Street (where the disease continued steadily for a year). Cases still continued to arrive from the country, and three nurses and three patients in the