Report of twenty cases of malignant cholera that occured in the seamen's hospital-ship, Dreadnought, between the 8th and 28th of October, 1837 / by George Budd... and George Busk.

  • Budd, George, 1808-1882.
Date:
1838
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Credit: Report of twenty cases of malignant cholera that occured in the seamen's hospital-ship, Dreadnought, between the 8th and 28th of October, 1837 / by George Budd... and George Busk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    September, and no case of cholera occurred in-the vessel in which he sailed ; so that, on this supposition, the disease, in him, must have had a period of incu- bation of thirty days, a circumstance very improbable if we consider that the second and third cases oc- curred in the two following nights ; that the five persons seized on the 21st and 22d had come from the four quarters of the globe, and consequently could not have brought the disease, and at the time of their attack had been in the ship from two to seven days only; and that the whole duration of the visitation was only nineteen days. The only other person of those affected by the dis- ease, who can be supposed to have introduced it, is Thomas, the fifth attacked. He also came from Dantzic, but he arrived in port seven days before Bernet, and had been in the hospital twelve days at the time of his attack. It may be supposed possible for the disease to have been brought by a person who did not himself ex- perience it. This is rendered less probable by the measures that are always taken with respect to the clothes of the patients. These, as soon as the pa- tients have reached the beds allotted to them, are taken by the nurses and dehvered to the boatswain, who keeps them in large lockers appropriated to this purpose under the forecastle, and returns them to the patients on their discharge. The following is, however, the evidence on this head. From the 1st of September to the 12th of October, were admitted 334 patients. Of these, 158 c 2