The History of Cholera- Time Line 1

By greenemma864

  • 1828

    Newspapers carried small paragraphs about cholera noting the progress.

  • September 1830

    September 1830- Moscow fell under the siege of Cholera and concerns of the spread to St. Petersburg heightened.

  • 15 September 1830

    15 September 1830- Lord Heytesbury (Ambassador of Russia) wrote to the Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs in London about the alarming spread of cholera.

  • October 1830

    October 1830- In Russia, total number of cholera cases at 2,500 with 1,100 dead (three weeks later the total was at 5,000 and the death total was up to 2,600).

  • 9 October 1830

    9 October 1830- Lord Heytesbury traveled to Moscow

  • December 1830

    December 1830- Dr. Walker was hired by Lord Aberdeen under Heytesbury to go to Moscow to study the disease and report back to London.

  • April 1831

    April 1831- Cholera was approaching the Polish border. Spread from the Russian to the Polish army.

  • May 1831

    May 1831- 60 deaths reported from Cholera in Latvia. Disease was moving north and west. Authorities in Russia set up a quarantine to attempt to prevent the disease from reaching St. Petersburg.

  • June 1831

    June 1831- Britain had been enforcing strict quarantine on all ships from infected foreign ports.

  • 21 June 1831

    21 June 1831- King William IV opened up a new session of parliament to announce the progress fo cholera across Europe. Sir Henry reports tasks set up for the Board of Health.

  • 28 June 1831

    28 June 1831- Two cases of cholera were reported in St. Petersburg. Riots sparked in the streets. The government began moving those who were sick, elderly, infirm, or drunk. Mobs began attacking hospitals to “liberate” the sick.

  • 1 July 1831

    1 July 1831- British doctors David Barry and William Russell arrived in St. Petersburg.

  • August 1831

    August 1831- Russians gave up trying to place cordons around infected areas. All restrictions were removed except those around the imperial palace. Over 10,000 had died from cholera.

  • 9 September 1831

    9 September 1831- It was ruled that a boatman in Berlin had died of Asiatic cholera. By a week later the death toll was put to 58.

  • Mid-September 1831

    Mid-September 1831- Frances Forbes, British Plenipotentiary in Vienna, was reporting over 300 cases of cholera with 130 deaths. A week later 575 cases with another 220 people dead.

  • 7 October 1831

    7 October 1831- Henry Canning, Counsel-General in Hamburg, wrote an official report informing London that Hamburg and its surrounding districts were free of disease (but he sent a separate letter to Sir George Shee, Under-Secretary of State ate the Foreign Office, which stated a death had occurred and another person was ill- who died the next day). There were four or five cases of cholera reported.

  • 16 October 1831

    16 October 1831- Isabella Hazard of Low Street near Fish Quay became ill and died in England.

  • 20 October 1831

    20 October 1831- Privy Council published a long list of Sir Henry Halford’s new measures aimed at trying to contain cholera should it land in Britain.

  • 22 October 1831

    22 October 1831- the Lancet made an announcement that choler was closing in on British Soil.

  • 26 October 1831

    26 October 1831- William Sproat, a 60 year old keelman from near the Hazard family pub died.His son and granddaughter then became ill. Robert Jordan also died 11 hours after becoming ill.

  • 31 October 1831

    31 October 1831- Dr. Clanny and his colleagues at the infirmary where Sproat’s son and granddaughter had been admitted met to discuss the cases. A shoemaker named Rodenburg also died. So did Thomas Wilson, Eliza Turnbull, Betty Short, and Robert Crawford. Clanny filed a report to London alerting them of the outbreak of continental cholera.

  • 8 November 1831

    8 November 1831- Colonel Creagh informed London that Daun was convinced that the disease killing people in Sunderland was cholera. He then organized a clean-up and supplying the poor with basic necessities.

  • 11 November 1831

    11 November 1831-a mob of merchants and ship owners packed the Commission Room of Sunderland’s grand Exchange building denouncing reports of Asiatic cholera. The next day the town’s doctors denied that cholera was among them to prevent themselves from being blacklisted by merchants and business owners.

  • 15 November 1831

    15 November 1831- Daun and Creagh had a cholera hospital opened for business.

  • 27 November 1831

    27 November 1831- Barry wrote to London confirming that the disease was identical to what had occurred in St. Petersburg.

  • 3 December 1831

    3 December 1831- seven weeks after cholera first struck, the number of cases in Sunderland stood at over 300 with fourteen patients being diagnosed daily.

  • 1832

    1832- cholera was said to have broken out in London. Calley proposed firing off bags of gunpowder from large cannons at strategic sites around the capitals to purify the city’s atmosphere.