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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    victualler, aged one year, diarrhoea, five days, and malignant cholera, one day. This child was in good health up to the moment he was seized with diarrhoea, six days before his death, although he was teething, and was about to be weaned. No person in the house had diarrhoea or cholera at the time he became ill, during his illness, or after his death; and he himself was not taken to any house where he could have caught the disease. Case No. 111. Sept 20th.—See the R. G. W. R., 22nd Sept., 1855. Hackney, at 13, Victoria Street, Homerton, on the 20th Sept., a brickmaker, aged thirty-six, diarrhoea, twelve hours; malignant cholera, twenty-four hours. I have seen the landlady where this man resided, and who attended him along with his wife and other neighbours. She states, that he had a diarrhoea for above six weeks, which he did not attend to, as he was not in pain. That two days before his death, the diarrhoea suddenly increased in frequency, and in about twelve hours he was seized with severe vomit- ing, spasms, etc., and died in about twenty-four hours after being attacked with vomiting and cramps. This man was a labouring man, who did not idle his time, but attended to his occupation as brick- maker; therefore, he had no opportunity to see or visit any one labouring under diarrhoea or cholera. Before this man's death no case of cholera had occurred in the neighbourhood, although there were several persons complaining of diarrhoea. Case No. 112. Oct. 6th.—See the R. G. W. R., 13th Oct., 1855.