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This view emphasises the advantage of having
a place of refuge near at hand as affording the
best chance to the sick man for his recovery, and
is, moreover, endorsed by the Local Government
Board in the following words:—
" Patients suffering from cholera cannot, for
" the purpose of removal to hospital, be conveyed
" any great distance, and the Board are
" advised that it may be laid, down as a
" general principle that a mile should be
" regarded as the limit of distance that a patient
" should be removed."
Cholera terminates one way or the other more
speedily than almost any disease of its class, so
that ordinarily the necessary detention of the
patient in hospital is brief, whether recovery
takes place or not, and consequently the expense
attending cure and convalescence considerably
less than obtains with other disorders; much,
however, depends upon the physical stamina of
the patient at the time.
It is a non-contagious disease, or, in other
words, not communicable from person to person
if well-known precautions be observed.