Cholera and public health reform 1830 - 75 [Britain]
Cholera had a profound effect upon the public and legislators because
Cholera hit Britain in four massive epedemics
1832 - 30 recorded 'cholera-phobial' riots
A cure for cholera? & suspected cause
1831 - 32 resulting in 32,000 deaths
1848 - 49 resulting in 62,000 deaths
1853 - 54 resulting in 20,000 deaths
1866 - 67 resulting in 14,000 deaths
High percenatge of fatalities 40-60 % among those contarcting cholera
The speed with which cholera could strike
Not specifically directed at authorities, but arose because of specific fears that:
Medical students for bodies for thier anatomy classes
Doctors were murdering cholera victims
Victims were being burien in unconscrated grounds
Victime being buried hastily, possibly before they were dead, and without propper religious ceromonies
begins with acutae pain in fingers and toes, spreads to limbs, acompanied by stomach cramps
violent, explosive diarrhoea and vomiting
often body looses several pints of fluid in a few minutes
features collapse and skin turns black and blue, then diffucult breathing
was spread via contact with victims
'Mmiasma of filth' bretahed from infected air
gods munishment for laed immoral behaviour
If survived collapse follows, then comma and death
