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The final catastrophe-- cholera in London, 1866.
IN 1866 PANDEMIC CHOLERA attacked Britain for the fourth and final time in an epidemic which struck with extreme ferocity in the East End of London, killing very nearly four thousand people there between the end of July and the beginning of November.2 The epidemic has not yet received detailed attention either from social historians or in the literature of the history of medicine. It is, howeve...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1883
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)35935-x