The First Cholera Outbreak

Like a new throne, cholera conquered Europe in the 19th century. The first outbreak of this disease seems to be spreading smoothly to the UK through trade with the Indian Empire in India. Cholera is identified by accelerated dehydration of blood clots and blue skin due to rapid diarrhea, vomiting, depletion of body fluids. This causes a drop in blood pressure, also known as the "sinking phase", with muscle cramps, depressed cheeks and eyes.

In the fall of 1831, the first British cholera epidemic occurred in Sunderland. From there, the disease entered Scotland in the north and entered London in the south. Before it ran, it robbed the lives of 52,000 people nationwide. It took five years to travel in Europe from the origin in Bangladesh, so when a British doctor arrived in Sunderland, a British doctor knew its nature, if not for that reason. This disease is different from well known one. A doctor says, "Our other plague is from the family, it is part of ourselves, I am accustomed to treating with a fatal indifference.

Cholera is a bacterial infection that mainly contracts through food and water. The recent epidemic of cholera in Haiti has become a topic, but the biggest cholera epidemic known to mankind is the third cholera outbreak of origin beyond India and its borders, only in the UK I will kill 23,000 people. This deadly pandemic affected the eastern Roman Empire, in particular Constantinople's port city and the Mediterranean coast. The pandemic is very serious, about 25 million people died, accounting for about 13% of the world's population. The plague returned to the waves, but not so serious. It was named after then Eastern Roman emperor Justinian. As shown in the figure below, limb necrosis is one of severe symptoms.

It is generally considered the most deadly of the seven major cholera epidemics, and the third occurrence of cholera in the 19th century continued from 1852 to 1860. Like the first and second pandemics, the third epidemic of cholera begins in India and has been torn from Ganges Delta via Asia, Europe, North America, and Africa, more than 1 million people died It was. When life British physician John Snow worked in a poor region of London, he tracked the cholera case and succeeded in identifying contaminated water eventually as a path of sickness. Unfortunately, his discovery (1854) was the worst year of the pandemic in the same year, of which 23,000 died in the UK.