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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:900-907
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Reprints and Reflections

EXTRACTS from Appendix (A) to the Report of the General Board of Health on the Epidemic Cholera of 1848 & 1849a

Sutherland, Dr

a Published by HMSO, London, 1850.

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Section 1

Localizing causes of cholera
Before proceeding to describe the various measures of a medical preventive nature carried out under the regulations of the General Board of Health, it is necessary that I should enter shortly into the reasons for their adoption, by describing those special conditions attending the epidemic seizure which they were intended to meet. Sufficient evidence will presently be advanced to show that cholera is by no means so capricious in its attacks as has been generally supposed, but that on the contrary it is propagated according to certain fixed laws, although the limits of these have not as yet been precisely defined. Whether or not there be sufficient proof that the epidemic influence progresses from point to point, and that it is not always universally diffused over the whole face of a country—whether or not there be also evidence to show that the intensity of that influence is not necessarily equal . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Illustrations of localising causes of cholera

Unwholesome Water
7 Defective Sanitary Alterations, etc.

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