One
incident, however, claims attention. In the year 1854 a terrible recrudescence of cholera,
due, as was supposed, to the contamination of the water furnished by the notorious Broad
Street pump, in the parish of St James's, Westminster, ravaged the Metropolis and
particularly the immediate neighbourhood of the Hospital (Golden Square). Twenty-two years
before, cholera had sprung suddenly upon a profession utterly unprepared to deal with it and
destitute of a principle to guide them in organising the best defence against the new foe.
In 1849 it was found that their experience had not taught them much. In 1854 they had still
to search among their record of cases for any agreement as to the best way out of their
perplexities.
this is a website about the history of cholera
