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Excerpt from Memorandum on Cholera: Adopted at a Medical Conference Held in the Bureau of Agriculture, in March, 1866
It was introduced through the States, and Quebec was the last of our cities to receive it. The appearance of the plague took place under a rather mild form in August, and the last cases were observed no later than the first days of October. It lasted only about two months, taking Canada as a whole, and only five weeks at Quebec, from the 25th of August to the 2ud of October, having caused 206 deaths in that city.
On one of the last days it existed in Quebec, a ship, the Perthshire, sailed for England: almost immediately after her departure from Quebec the pilot was seized with cholera and died. The captain and one sailor having also been attacked, the mate anchored the ship at l'lsle Verte; but in a few days both patients got well and the vessel started again without any further case and completed her voyage.
The fifth epidemic took place in 1854. It first entered Canada at Quebec on the 20th of June, and for this, attack we have the whole history of the importation of the malady, in a Report of Drs. Landry and Jackson and M r. Gauthier, Commissioners appointed to investigate the facts connected with the introduction of Cholera of 1854 into Canada.
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