A darkened house : cholera in nineteenth-century Canada / Geoffrey Bilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bilson, Geoffrey, author.

Series:

Social history of Canada ; 31.

Social History of Canada, 0085-6207 ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cholera--Canada--History--19th century.

Cholera.

Public health--Canada--History--19th century.

Public health.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a fascinating and disturbing book, Geoffrey Bilson traces the story of the cholera epidemics as they ravaged the Canadas and the Atlantic colonies.

Contents:

Cover

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

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-5694-8

1-4426-3363-8

OCLC:

929153616