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The 1832 Sligo cholera outbreak was a severe outbreak of cholera in the port town of Sligo in northwestern Ireland. [1] The outbreak resulted in an official total of 643 deaths, out of a population of 15,000. [2] However, the official figures are considerably lower, as only Fever Hospital deaths were recorded. [1]
From September 1831 to January 1832, a catastrophic cholera epidemic ravaged the lower Euphrates and Tigris regions of what is now Iraq and Iran. In Shushtar, Iran, about half of the city's inhabitants died from cholera. The Mandaean community was hit particularly hard, and all of their priests died in the plague.
In 1849, a second major outbreak occurred in France. In London, it was the worst outbreak in the city's history, claiming 14,137 lives, over twice as many as the 1832 outbreak. Cholera hit Ireland in 1849 and killed many of the Irish Famine survivors, already weakened by starvation and fever. [28]
The Liverpool Cholera Riots of 1832 demonstrate the complex social responses to epidemic disease, as well as the fragile interface between the public and the medical profession. [6] In the same year, riots were reported in Exeter as people objected to the burial of cholera-infected bodies in local graveyards. [8] Gravediggers were attacked.
Cholera is known for its ability to quickly spread and flourish in every environment. Because of this Cholera was found in almost every part of the country during this period. Cholera's impact during the 1832 epidemic was particularly profound on indigenous communities. Cholera spread to Native populations in 1832 through waterways.
During these many outbreaks, members of the medical profession rapidly began trying different cures to treat their patients. [3] During the cholera epidemic of 1832, a doctor in London, Thomas Latta, discovered that he could greatly increase the survival rate of his patients by injecting saline solutions into their arms. [3]
Memorial to the victims of the 1832 cholera epidemic at the Howard Park cholera pit, Kilmarnock. A cholera pit was a burial place used in a time of emergency when the disease was prevalent. Such mass graves were often unmarked and were placed in remote or specially selected locations.
The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) ... These included outbreaks in 1832 and 1849, which killed 14,137 people. [5] Competing theories of cholera