Papers relative to the disease called cholera spasmodica in India, now prevailing in the north of Europe : with extracts of letters, reports, and communications received from the continent.
- Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Papers relative to the disease called cholera spasmodica in India, now prevailing in the north of Europe : with extracts of letters, reports, and communications received from the continent. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![my part in communicating the information I promised so long ago ; but I am certain that if you knew how much and how variously my time is occupied you would excuse rae. May I beg the favour of you to present my respects to Dr. Russell. I would be extremely happy if you could still find time to come out to Alexandrossan, to see the general arrangement of the place, in what relates to the lodging, feeding, and clothing of the foundlings, workmen, &c. Though I suppose you are now tired of lion hunting in Petersburg and its environs. With best wishes I remain. Dear Sir, your obedient servant, T. Wilson. To Dr. Barry. Extract of a Letter from Dr. Barry. St. Petersburg, Oct. 8, 1831. The cordons around Zarcozelo and Peterhoif were removed last week. We immediately visited these places, and saw, for the first time, Sir William Crichton and Sir James Leighton. Both these gentlemen separately and positively asserted, repeated the assertions, and permitted us to note it, that no case had occurred within the sacred precincts of either cordon since their establish- ment, though the circle of demarcation was completely surrounded with the disease, and though the enclosure around Zarcozelo con- tained from 8000 to ] 0,000 souls. Letter from His Majesty's Minister at Berlin. Berlin, 29th August, 1831. My Lord,—A case supposed to be Asiatic cholera has oc- curred this morning at Charlottenburg. The doctors are gone thither in order to make their report on the subject. The great unhealthiness of Potsdam, where a fever reigns at present, had induced the king to relinquish his intention of fixing himself in that neighbourhood, and his Majesty had decided upon the palace of Charlottenburg as the place of his residence, and preparations were making there accordingly. 1 know not whether this event will change that determination. I have, &c. (Signed) G. W. Chad. The Viscount Palmerston. Letter from his Majesty's Minister at Berlin. Berlin, 29th August, 1S31, 4 p. M. My dear Sir,—Since the government express went off, the question as to the cholera has been decided. The man is dead, and the doctors have declared it (o be a case](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297770_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
