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in July last, Mr. Ernest Hart, said, "I claim to have now
established on an overwhelming basis of evidence collected
from every part of Europe, the dicta, founded upon the
original investigations by Snow and Simon on the British
epidemics of 1848 and 1854, and by myself and Radcliffe of
the East London epidemic of 1866 :
1. That cholera is a filth disease, carried by dirty people
to dirty places, and diffused by specifically poisoned water.
2. That you may eat cholera, and drink cholera, but you
cannot catch cholera.
3. That cholera may be considered for all practical purposes
as an exclusively water carried disease, and that it is carried
only by water poisoned by human discharges.
4. Cholera can find no lodgment where the whole of the
potable water is absolutely pure and unpolluted.
No suspicious case of the disease was reported in this
District. No parishioner died from English Cholera, and the
deaths from ordinary diarrhoea were only about the decennial
average.
The precautionary measures taken in 1893 will continue
to enable any possible outbreak of the disease being
promptly dealt with, should it unfortunately occur in the
present year.
Other Miasmatic Diseases.
Influenza.
During the year, the disease, though of a milder type
than in former epidemics, has been distributed pretty
generally throughout the country, and, at times, has been
fatally prevalent.