Observations on the influence of epidemics of fever in checking the advance of those of cholera / by Robert Lawson.

  • Lawson, Robert
Date:
[1870]
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Credit: Observations on the influence of epidemics of fever in checking the advance of those of cholera / by Robert Lawson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    troops m Demerara and Trinidad, and diia, the epidemic area extended to prevalent, but not so severe, among tiie eastward and southward, so that both troops and inhabitants of Bar- Aboukir, Tanta, and Cairo were in- eluded in it on 17th June, Zagazig and Mansoura, on 20th, and Dami- etta and Suez (the inhabitants) on 26t]i ; along the Nile it embraced Minieh on 30th June, and Kenneh, lat. 26^° on 23rd July. At Toussoum, on the Suez Canal, upwards of 40 miles from the latter town, there was an isolated outbreak, commencing on 16th July, among labourers occupied in excavating earthwork—always a dangerous occupation during epi- demics, and near Suez itself, labourers similarly employed were affected with choleraic diarrhoea in June, and one case proved fatal among these on the 22nd of that month. This movement of the epidemic eastward was not confined to Egypt, but was observed in Syria and Southern Russia as well. Though cliolera was at .Jaffa and Bey- rout in the first week in July, it does not seem to have reached Nablous until considerably later, and though a few sporadic cases were said to have appeared in Jerusalem prior to 22nd August, it was about the 10th October before the epidemic fairly declared itself there. At Damascus the first case was in August, and at Aleppo the disease commenced on lltli August, while, farther to the east still, Bagdad had its earliest cases on 25th Sep- tember, and Mosul on 23rd October. In Russia, though the epidemic had been at Odessa in the first week, and at Kertch on 17th August, it did not appear at Taganrog, at the head of the Sea of Azof, until 12th October, and on 14th November there was an out- break at Zadonsk, to the north of Voronez, and nearly on the same meridian with Taganrog. Towards the end of 1865, the epi- demic ceased to advance northwards, but remained in a subdued form in France and some other parts of Eu- rope. In 1866, however, when the wave passed into the zone beyond the isoclinal 70° N., as soon as the weather began to get mild, cholera again be- came active, and the epidemic gra- dually crept up to and passed that line, in Russia, Sweden, and Norway, Great Britain and Ireland, and ap- peared in the United States, not only from New York and Boston to Chi- cago, but embraced Savannah, New Orleans, and Galveston, in the South. It was scarcely experienced in Canada,