| Description Of Item | He is a magistrate on the Board of Health and is glad that cholera is getting attention from the medical profession in Edinburgh. He draws attention to the fact that diarrhoea precedes cholera and describes how they sent hand bills door to door to get people to report the first symptoms of diarrhoea. Unfortunately this was not until half the mortality had already occurred. He suggests that increasing the reporting of diarrhoea should be a priority for all Boards of Health and that young surgeons should be sent round all poor homes to investigate. |