Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin.

  • Macloughlin, David, 1786-1870.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Result of an inquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by human intercourse from an infected to a healthy locality; or, from an infected to a healthy person : that is, is cholera a contagious disease? / by David Macloughlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when any one is taken ill during the night, they have to send for one at about a mile from the prison. From the most minute inquiries, it is impossible to trace that the disease was brought into the house, though there are a few cases of diarrhoea in the establishment; therefore, the disease originated in the house. Case No. 122. Oct. 20tk—See the R. G. W. E., 20th Oct. 1855. St. George in the East, at 16, St. George's Court, a dock labourer, aged forty-nine, died on the 13th Oct., diar- rhoea, eight hours ; Asiatic cholera, thirty-six hours. This man's widow informed me that her husband was a sober, steady man; that he was in his usual health the day before and up to the time when the diarrhoea came on, which was towards morning. As he was iii no pain he did not, for the first few hours, pay much attention to this diarrhoea; but as soon as he began to vomit and to have spasms, a medical gentleman was called in, who pronounced it to be an attack of cholera. He died in about six-and- thirty hours after the vomiting and spasms set in. His widow is not aware that he had seen any one labouring under diarrhoea or cholera. Herself and her children, and the remainder of the families in the house were, previous to, and have remained since his death, in perfect health, free from diarrhoea and cholera. Case No. 123. Oct. 21th.—See the R. G. W. E., 3rd Nov., 1855. On the 27th Oct., 1855, a person, formerly a labourer,