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EP029 THE COURT OF KING CHOLERA – THE GREAT VICTORIAN PLAGUE

EP029 “The Court of King Cholera – the great Victorian plague” explores one of the most famous pandemics in history. There was horror, death, and a little hope. Many bad decisions, anger and mistrust, but also groundbreaking science. When disease strikes it is easy to think humanity is levelled and we all stand together – does history prove this is true?

This show covers

Reviews and thank you’s
The initial panic of cholera?
Mt Tambora and the first pandemic
Poverty and failure.
Official corruption, murderous doctors and anti science mobs.
The dawn of the Victorian era in the time of Cholera.
What is the cause? Is it something in the air?
The lowest point – horror show at the orphanage.
The Doctors Strike Back.
Onwards and upwards, or a warning from history?

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SOURCES – EPISODE 029 CHOLERA

2020-05-08 age-of-victoria 1 Comment

There are a huge number of sources on Cholera and the Victorian response to the great pandemics. It affected everything from science to art to culture to city planning. I used the following sources for episode 029, but there is so much more to discover. This should provide some good jump off points.

Queen Victoria’s Diaries (herself, editors various)
Thomas, Amanda J “Cholera, The Victorian Plague”
Hidden extras: cholera comes to Victorian London http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/themes/publichealth/cholera
E Chadwick, Report on The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984) originally published 1842
Stephanie J Snow, Commentary: Sutherland, Snow and water: the transmission of cholera in the nineteenth century, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 31, Issue 5, October 2002, Pages 908–911, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/31.5.908
Chan, Christina H et al. “Historical epidemiology of the second cholera pandemic: relevance to present day disease dynamics.” PloS one vol. 8,8 e72498. 22 Aug. 2013, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072498
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/pandemic1826-37.html (2nd pandemic)
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/pandemic1846-63.html (3rd pandemic “Asiatic Cholera Outbreak”)
Global epidemics and impact of cholera https://www.who.int/topics/cholera/impact/en/
Amrita GHOSH, « The Horror of Contact: Understanding Cholera in Mann’s Death in Venice », Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化 [En ligne], 12 | 2017, mis en ligne le 24 octobre 2018, consulté le 26 mars 2020. https://journals.openedition.org/transtexts/779
Illness as a metaphor https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/01/26/illness-as-metaphor/
Mohammed, Yahaya et al. “Antimicrobial resistance of Vibrio cholerae from sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review.” African journal of laboratory medicine vol. 7,2 778. 6 Dec. 2018, doi:10.4102/ajlm.v7i2.778
https://www.wired.com/story/farm-animals-are-the-next-big-antibiotic-resistance-threat/
Chan, Christina H et al. “Historical epidemiology of the second cholera pandemic: relevance to present day disease dynamics.” PloS one vol. 8,8 e72498. 22 Aug. 2013, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072498 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3749991/
Epstein, Paul S. Algal blooms in the spread and persistence of cholera. Biosystems Volume 31, Issues 2–3, 1993, Pages 209-221
Platizky, Roger S. “Tennyson and Cholera.” Victorian Poetry, vol. 35, no. 4, 1997, pp. 533–542. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40002266. Accessed 26 Apr. 2020.
Brice, A. W. C., and K. J. Fielding. “Dickens and the Tooting Disaster.” Victorian Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 1968, pp. 227–244. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3826494. Accessed 29 Apr. 2020.
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th-april-1849/9/her-majestys-secretary-for-the-colonies-having-con
http://thecircumlocutionoffice.com/blog/tooting-pauper-farm/18490217-examiner/
https://blackwells.co.uk/extracts/9780199202584_ormerod.pdf
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t18490409-919 (The Drouet Tooting Infant Establishment Disaster Case)
https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Charles-Dickens-and-Medicine.pdf

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EP029 THE COURT OF KING CHOLERA – THE GREAT VICTORIAN PLAGUE

SOURCES – EPISODE 029 CHOLERA