This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... the 20th July, when the Cholera was raging in Stonehouse Lane, Plymouth, a boy left his home, wandered about the streets, and was taken into a house in Market Lane, Stonehouse. On the 21st he was attacked and died at 2 P.M. On same day, at 7 P.M., a buy who slept with him the previous night was attacked and died in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... the 20th July, when the Cholera was raging in Stonehouse Lane, Plymouth, a boy left his home, wandered about the streets, and was taken into a house in Market Lane, Stonehouse. On the 21st he was attacked and died at 2 P.M. On same day, at 7 P.M., a buy who slept with him the previous night was attacked and died in three hours and a half. The woman in whose room these boys died, after attending some other cases, also died. And one other person who came to the house from Devonport was attacked. There was no case in this locality before the boy came from Plymouth. Afterwards it spread. Fint Patient. Eliza Fenton, admitted on 17th September, 1849, from Oomersal workhouse, where two persons had died of Cholera the previous night. At 9, P.m., on same day, was found to be suffering from Diarrhoea; on night of 25th September Cholera supervened. She recovered. Serond Patient. Mary Morley, in room opposite to Eliza Fenton's, in same gallery, attacked in the night of 22nd September, and died the following day. Third Case. Sarah Atkinson, ten days after, 2nd October, slept in a room occupied for four hours by Mary Morley (second case) during her attack, and died. Fourth Cote. In same ward a the other three, om ith October. Ftfth Case. Also in a room in same wnrd, on 8th. On October 9th, all patients transferred from this ward to another range of rooms, before uninhabited, and no farther eases occurred amongst them. On October 15th, a male patient in another part of the building attacked, and nearly at same time, on 17th, a woman in different part. On the following day others, and at length not a single ward escaped. N.B.--Previous to the appearance of Cholera in the Asylum it was gradually spreading its ravages over the sui rounding district. But in 1832, when the sa...
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