“Mr. Greene, of Fraserburgh, gives the following account of the
introduction of cholera into two villages in Scotland. Two boats, one
belonging to Cairnbulgh and the other to Inveralochy, met at Montrose,
and their crews on several occasions strolled through the town in
company, although aware that it was at that time infected with cholera.
On their passage homeward, they were obliged to put into Gourdon, where
one man belonging to the Cairnbulgh boat died on the 22nd of September,
after an illness of fourteen hours, with all the symptoms of cholera.
Several of the men of both boats were at the same time attacked with
serous diarrhœa, of which three of them had not recovered when they
reached their respective homes; nor indeed until the first cases of the
epidemic broke out in the villages.
“In Inveralochy the first case appeared on the 28th of September, three
or four days after the arrival of the boat; the sufferer, the father of
one of the crew, had been engaged in removing the cargo along with other
members of his family. Two other cases occurred in this family; one on
the 30th of September, and one on the 1st of October.
“In Cairnbulgh, the first cases appeared on the 29th and 30th of
September respectively, and both patients had also been engaged in
removing the cargo of the boat (shell-fish) belonging to that village.
No other cases appeared until the 3rd of October; so that from the 28th
of September to the 3rd of October none were attacked in either village,
but those who had come in contact with the suspected boats, or their
crews.
“The subsequent cases were chiefly among relatives of those first
attacked; and the order of their propagation was as follows. In
Inveralochy, the first case was the father of a family; the second, his
wife; the third, a daughter living with her parents; the fourth, a
daughter who was married and lived in a different house, but who
attended her father and mother during their illness; the fifth, the
husband of the latter; and the sixth, his mother. Other cases occurred
at the same time, although they were not known to have communicated with
the former. One of them was the father of a family; the second his son,
who was seized the day after his father, and a daughter the next day.”
The following instances of communication of cholera are taken from
amongst many others in the “Report on Epidemic Cholera to the Royal
College of Physicians”, by Dr. Baly.
“Stockport. (Dr. Rayner and Mr. J. Rayner, reporters). Sarah Dixon went
to Liverpool, September 1st, to bury her sister, who had died of cholera
there; returned to Stockport on September 3rd; was attacked with cholera
on the 4th; was taken home by her mother to her mother’s house, a
quarter of a mile distant; was in collapse, but recovered. Her mother
was attacked on the 11th, and died. The brother, James Dixon, came from
High Water to see his mother, and was attacked on the 14th.
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