emperature drops and the person becomes
             extremely lethargic5. This next to last stage represents the person at near death, and overt
             physical signs of cholera become present. Visual symptoms include sunken face, bluish
             lips and fingernails and the tongue is coated, resulting in a voice which can only rise to a
             whisper6. As is relatively obvious, prevention of contraction is much more safe for the
             individual then trying to cure cholera once it enters the body7.
             The statistics of cholera mortality and morbidity throughout Great Britain are
             staggering. Exact results cannot be determined for several reasons. First off all, often
             times, when patients died during the early stages of outbreak, local boards report that the
             death was not caused by cholera, but by something else, usually cholera or typhus8. This
             helped to delay the truth that cholera had infiltrated one's town or city. Along similar
             lines, many cholera deaths were actually believed to be some other disease because of
             lack of medical knowledge at the time9. These facts acted to severely deflate the actual
             statistics. However, the estimated statistics still leave their impression. Total deaths are
             This leaves the total number of dead from the four outbreaks at over 110,000 people.
             Each region throughout Great Britain was effected differently. For example, in the 1866
             outbreak at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, the total number of deaths was 154711, 1500 of these
             deaths occurred from August 31 through mid-October12, with over 100 deaths daily
             during the peak times. The 1866 outbreak alluded to large class differences, this is
             illustrated in the following statistics. Of the 1547 deaths, 37 came from the gentry class,
             254 were tradesmen, and 1174 were artisans and laborers13. 1866 was the most serious at
             Newcastle. In 1831, 306 deaths occurred. In 1848, which is regarded as Great Britains
             most severe, Newcastle escaped cholera....