Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1855 - 352 Seiten |
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abundance acid amongst amount animalcules annelid atmosphere August average Bethnal Green Bexley Heath Board of Health Broad Street brown calm Chiswell Street Cholera cisterns coleps considerable contained cyclotella operculata deaths from Cholera decaying vegetable tissue December deposited desmideæ detected Diarrhoea diatomaceæ disease district entomostraceæ epidemic euglena excess fluid fragments frustules fungi genera Golden Square Hassall and Dr haze Highgate Hosp houses infusoria July Lambeth large number Lewisham lime living organic productions London mean meloseira varians Metropolitan microscopical examination Millbank monads navicula Nitzschia November observed October organic matter organic productions overcast oxytricha ozone paramecia pleurosigma present pump quadricauda quantity rain residue rice-water river river Thames rotifer Royal Observatory samples scenedesmus sediment September 1854 sewer slender fungus small infusoria Southwark Southwark and Vauxhall species specimens sporules stations subsidence temperature Thames water Thomas's Hospital threads ulna urine Vauxhall Vauxhall Company vibriones vorticella ward week ending
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Seite 112 - He found that the three epidemics were attended with a particular state of atmosphere characterised by a prevalent mist, thin in high places, dense in low. During the height of the epidemic, in all cases, the reading of the barometer was remarkably high, and the atmosphere thick. In 1849 and 1854 the temperature was above its average, and a total absence of rain, and a stillness of air, amounting almost to calm, accompanied the progress of the disease on each occasion. In places near the river the...
Seite 113 - Thames fell below 60° ; but in 1854 the barometer again increased, the air became again stagnant, and the decline of the disease was considerably checked. It continued however, gradually to subside, although the months of November and December were nearly as misty as that of September.
Seite 74 - I have a foundation of many years' continuous observations, that in a short time we should be in a condition to elaborate a clear insight into the meteorological causes of cholera, influenza, and many phases of disease which now burst upon us with the suddenness and devastating power of a Divine and wrathful visitation.
Seite 53 - W., and remained a compound of west till the end of the year. The following Table shows the number of...
Seite 238 - I tore up some white cards into pieces, moistened them so as to make them sink easily below the surface, and then dropped some of these pieces into the water at every pier the boat came to ; before they had sunk an inch below the surface they were...
Seite 238 - If there be sufficient authority to remove a putrescent pond from the neighbourhood of a few simple dwellings, surely the river which flows for so many miles through London ought not to be allowed to become a fermenting sewer. The condition in which I saw the Thames may perhaps be considered as exceptional, but it ought to be an impossible state, instead of which I fear it ia rapidly becoming the general condition. If we neglect this subject, we cannot expect to do so with impunity...
Seite 238 - ... was for the time a real sewer. Having just returned from out of the country air, I was, perhaps, more affected by it than others ; but I do not think I could have gone on to Lambeth or Chelsea, and I was glad to enter the streets for an atmosphere which, except near the sinkholes, I found much sweeter than that on the river. I have thought it a duty to record these facts that they may be brought to the attention of those who exercise power, or have responsibility in relation to the condition...
Seite 41 - Bn is the mean number of days in each month in which the air was 5° C. (9° F.) or more colder than the water ; Bmx the mean of the greatest excess of the temperature of the water above that of the air. The months January 1879, 1880, 1881, 1885, 1887, and December 1878 and 1879 are omitted because of the great number of frost days. In the other months the frost days, and those on which the Marne was frozen, are omitted. 1 The Nile in Upper Egypt from May to August by 4°'l C. (7° -4 F.
Seite 112 - In 1849 and 1854 the temperature was above its average, and a total absence of rain, and a stillness of air amounting almost to calm, accompanied the progress of the disease on each occasion. In places near the river the night temperatures were high, with small diurnal range, a dense, torpid mist, and air charged with the many impurities arising from the exhalations of the river and adjoining marshes, a deficiency of electricity, and, as shown in 1854, a total absence of ozone, most probably destroyed...
Seite 238 - The smell was very bad, and common to the whole of the water. It was the same as that which now comes up from the gully holes in the streets. The whole river was for the time a real sewer. Having just returned from the country air, I was perhaps more affected by it than others ; but I do not think that I could have gone on to Lambeth or Chelsea, and I was glad to enter the streets for an atmosphere which, except...