Reports and papers on cholera in England in 1893 / with an introduction by the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board.

  • Great Britain. Local Government Board
Date:
1894
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Credit: Reports and papers on cholera in England in 1893 / with an introduction by the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Arp.A. No. 10. the pathologists. It was from this case that a part of the ileum was On (Tnoiera ^'^^^ ^'^ Klein. [Dr. Klein's investigations (see page 184') ftt Coton Hill gave, both microscopically and culturally, positive evidence of true ^^te&e. Cholera.] As reg.uds the etiology of the two cases, it may be said that as both occurred in the same ward, and the interval between them was but short, it is not improbable that the second case was dependent upon the first, though no evidence was forthcoming on this point. Assuming, how. ever, for the sake of investigation, that Case No. 2 bore no causal relation to Case No. 1, and that each was due to an independent, or to a common cause, it was not possible to establish the origin either of the one or the other. As regards communication with any pre-existing case, either inside or outside the asylum, I was unable—as also were the medical men con- cerned in the inquiry—to obtain any clue. I inquire'! as to the visits of friends, the sending in of food, kc. to them, the visits of the attendants to towns infected with cholera, the source, as far as possible of all solid or liquid foods arriving in the asylum, more especially fish, tinned meats, milk, water; fruit, &c. As i-egards fruit, it may be men- tioned that all the patients had eaten poars grown on the estate; but they appear to have been sound and not to have been indulged in inordinately. The fish to the asylum had previous to September 8th come from Grimsby, but all had been boiled and no shell fish had been eaten. I was unable to ascertain from the medical superintendent that there had been any cases antecedent to those under review, at all suspicious of cholera. * * * *
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