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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]
The sixth cholera pandemic, which was due to the classical strain of O1, had little effect in western Europe because of advances in sanitation and public health, but major Russian cities and the Ottoman Empire particularly suffered a high rate of cholera deaths. More than 500,000 people died of cholera in Russia from 1900 to 1925, which was a ...
Cholera hit Ireland in 1849 and killed many of the Irish Famine survivors, already weakened by starvation and fever. [25] In 1849, cholera claimed 5,308 lives in the major port city of Liverpool, England, an embarkation point for immigrants to North America, and 1,834 in Hull, England. [16] Cholera spread throughout the Mississippi River system ...
One of these was a Dr. Benson from Dublin, a man with experience working in fever hospitals in Ireland. He arrived on 21 May, volunteered to help the sick, contracted typhus himself and was dead within six days. [8] More than forty Irish and French Canadian priests and Anglican clergymen were active on Grosse Isle, many becoming ill themselves.
While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829.Numerous other cholera pandemics followed ...
Others relied upon the minister-physicians, barber-surgeons, apothecaries, midwives, and ministers; a few used colonial physicians trained either in Britain, or an apprenticeship in the colonies. One common treatment was blood letting. [2] The method was crude due to a lack of knowledge about infection and disease among medical practitioners ...
Cholera hit Ireland in 1849 and killed many of the Irish Famine survivors, already weakened by starvation and fever. [10] In 1849, cholera claimed 5,308 lives in the major port city of Liverpool, England, an embarkation point for immigrants to North America, and 1,834 in Hull, England. [11] In 1849, a second major outbreak occurred in Paris.
Cholera dissemination across Asia and Europe in 1817–1831. The first cholera pandemic (1817–24) began near Kolkata and spread throughout Southeast Asia to the Middle East, eastern Africa, and the Mediterranean coast. While cholera had spread across India many times previously, this outbreak went farther; it reached as far as China and the ...