Figure 1.
Map showing the locations of cities with time-series data on the 1832 cholera epidemic available in Amariah Brigham’s A Treatise on Epidemic Cholera.
New York and Philadelphia are not shown.
Table 1.
Cholera Cases and Deaths in Selected Cities, 1832.
Table 2.
Weekly cholera case counts in various European cities, 1832.
Table 3.
Daily cholera case counts in Philadelphia and New York, 1832.
Figure 2.
Selected curve fits of Richards curve to cumulative case count of cholera in the cities of (a) Lemberg (Lviv) and (b) Petersburgh (St. Petersburgh) reported in Brigham’s A Treatise on Epidemic Cholera.
Figure 3.
Selected curve fits of Richards curve to cumulative case count of cholera in the cities of (a) Dantzig (Gdansk) and (b) Stettin (Szczecin) reported in Brigham’s A Treatise on Epidemic Cholera.
Results show poorer fits of the data with a single-wave outbreak model, whereas a two-wave outbreak model yielded better fits.
Table 4.
Model-Estimated R0, Expected Final Size of Epidemic, and Percentage of Asymptomatic or Unrecognized Cases.