Official Instructions for Cholera
W.H. Hopper gives us a detailed overview of state-sanctioned methods to combat the spread of cholera within London. Published in 1848, this article allows the modern reader to not only baulk at the practices surrounding the containment of cholera, but more importantly understand how aware the state was of the national health crisis. Though, here we are left still wondering about the social institutions that allow the transmission of cholera to increase. Again we see how state regulation of public health may work to obfuscate the cause of such crises from a populace of strangers-made-strange.