The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1875 - 1053 pages
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Page 8 - VII. The dried particles of cholera poison may be carried (in clothing, bedding, etc.) to any distance; and when liberated may find their way direct to the alimentary canal through the medium of the air— by entering the mouth and nose and being swallowed with the saliva — or, less directly, through the medium of water or food in which they have lodged.
Page 47 - Cholera can be transmitted by personal effects coming from an infected place, especially such as have served for the sick from cholera ; and certain facts show that the disease can be carried to a distance by these effects if shut up so as to prevent free contact with the air.
Page 265 - Cienfuegos, are likewise divided into two zones, namely, one to the east and the other to the west of the harbor of Batabano, divided by an imaginary line drawn from the harbor of Batabano to the mouth of the "Sierra de Casas" River in the Isle of Pines, passing between Malpaez and Boqueron.
Page 47 - It cannot be too distinctly understood that the person who contracts cholera in this country is ipso facto demonstrated with almost absolute certainty to have been exposed to excremental pollution; that what gave him cholera was (mediately or immediately...
Page 59 - ... that water may become contaminated with the specific poison of cholera from the atmosphere, from surface washings, from neglected sewers, cesspools or privies, and that the use of water so infected will induce an outbreak of the disease.
Page 12 - States, the master shall submit for inspection to the officer of customs who first makes demand therefor, and shall subsequently deliver with his manifest of cargo on entry, a correct list, signed and verified on oath by the master, of all passengers taken...
Page 496 - RB MASON, Commanding Tenth Military Department. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, August 14, 1848. SIR: I have the honor to call your attention to the fact that the deficiency of force to support the civil organization at this place is likely to be productive of the most serious consequences.
Page 723 - DR. WILLIAM W. GULL. REPORTS ON EPIDEMIC CHOLERA; its Cause and Mode of Diffusion, Morbid Anatomy, Pathology and Treatment. Drawn up at the desire of the Cholera Committee of the Royal College of Physicians.
Page 32 - The evidence is conclusive that the exhibition of opium, followed by alterative doses of calomel, and absolute rest in the recumbent posture, almost invariably arrested the disease when in the premonitory stage. In the advanced stages, the entire range of the pharmacopoeia seems to have been brought into use, with no better results than have been obtained in previous epidemics. The...
Page 13 - And the next would be equally simple : A medical officer, selected for his good judgment and attainments in sanitary science, should collate and digest the information thus obtained, and transmit direct to the threatened ports, as well as through the public press, the note of warning. Thus advised, the threatened community would have ample time for preparation ; and the publicity given to the warning would be the most efficient means of insuring proper precautionary measures. International sanitary...

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