A History of Asiatic CholeraMacmillan, 1876 - 472 pages |
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A History of Asiatic Cholera (Classic Reprint) Nottidge Charles Macnamara Aucun aperçu disponible - 2018 |
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17th Lancers affected Agra April arrived Asiatic cholera attacked with cholera August Bagdad Benares Bengal Bombay Calcutta camp Caspian Sea Cawnpore cholera appeared cholera broke cholera in India cholera occurred cholera spread circumstances coast deaths from cholera December diarrhoea disease appeared district drinking water east endemic epidemic cholera Europe European evidence existed extended fact fatal free from cholera Herat hospital Hurdwar India infected influence inhabitants instance island jail July June Kermanshah localities London Madras March matter Mauritius Mecca Medical Board Meerut miles monsoon month mortality Nagpore native north-west November number of deaths observed October Orenburg outbreak of cholera outburst passed patients Persia persons Peshawur pilgrims population Port Port Louis prevailed prisoners provinces Punjab quarantine raged rain ravages regiment remarks river road Russia sanitary Secunderabad seized with cholera September ship station steamer suffered Surgeon Teheran throughout town troops vessels villages visited
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Page 14 - Their ships are wretched affairs, and many of them get lost ; for they have no iron fastenings, and are only stitched together with twine made from the husk of the Indian nut. They beat this husk until it becomes like horse-hair, and from that they spin twine, and with this stitch the planks of the ships together. It keeps well, and is not corroded by the sea-water, but it will not stand well in a storm. The ships are not pitched, but are rubbed with fish-oil. They have one mast, one sail, and one...
Page 265 - In order rightly to appreciate what these facilities must be, the following considerations have to be borne in mind -.—first, that any choleraic discharge, cast without previous thorough disinfection into any cesspool or drain, or other depository or conduit of filth...
Page 268 - It is important for the public very distinctly to remember that pains taken and costs incurred for the purposes to which this Memorandum refers cannot in any event be regarded as wasted. The local conditions which would enable Cholera, if imported, to spread its infection in this country, are conditions which day by day, in the absence of Cholera, create and spread other diseases : diseases, which...
Page 227 - Into this long narrow inclosure pilgrims from all parts of the encampment crowded as closely as possible from early morn to sunset; the water within this space, during the whole time, was thick and dirty — partly from the ashes of the dead, brought by surviving relatives to be deposited in the water of their river god, and partly from the washing of the clothes and bodies of the bathers. Now, pilgrims at the bathing ghaut, after entering the stream, dip themselves under the water three times or...
Page 266 - Information as to the high degree in which those two dangers affect the public health in ordinary times, and as to the special...
Page 264 - ... are enabled to taint the food, water or air, which people consume. Thus, when a case of cholera is imported into any place, the disease is not likely to spread, unless in proportion as it finds, locally open to it, certain facilities for spreading by indirect infection.
Page 265 - ... be done, wherever a case of Cholera is known to exist ; too much importance cannot be attached to the precaution of thoroughly disinfecting, without delay, all discharges from the stomach and bowels of persons suffering under the disease, and of disinfecting or destroying all bedding, clothing, towels, and the like, which such discharges may have imbued...
Page 264 - ... own, which, where local conditions assist, can operate with terrible force, and at considerable distances from the sick. It is characteristic of cholera — not only of the disease in its developed and alarming form, but equally of the slightest diarrhcea which the epidemic influence can cause — that all matters which the patient discharges from his stomach and bowels are infective...
Page 169 - One of them, on waking the next morning, was seized with cholera; the remainder of the party passed through the second day perfectly well, but two more of them were attacked with cholera the next morning ; all the others continued in good health till sunrise of the third day, when two more cases of cholera occurred. This was the last of the disease ; the other fourteen men escaped absolutely free from diarrhoea, cholera, or the slightest malaise.
Page 264 - Cholera in England shows itself so little contagious, in the sense in which small-pox and scarlatina are commonly called contagious, that, if reasonable care be taken where it is present, there is almost no risk that the disease will spread to persons who nurse and otherwise closely attend upon the...