A Darkened House : : Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada / / Geoffrey Bilson.
From its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America. The disease killed 20,000 people and its psychological effects were enormous. Cholera unsettled governments, undermined the medical profession, exposed inadequacies in public health, and w...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1980 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. 'Scrape, wash and cleanse
- 2. 'Calculated to unman the ... strongest': Lower Canada 1832
- 3. 'Nothing is to be heard but the "Cholera"': Upper Canada 1832
- 4. 'The ravages ... has been kept hid': Canada 1834
- 5. 'Distance is no security': The Maritimes 1832-4
- 6. 'Ample room ... for further improvements': Later Epidemics
- 7. 'Charlatanism of every description
- 8. 'Shortcomings ... exposed relentlessly
- Tables of deaths
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- A Bibliographical Essay
- Index