Upwards of a thousand of the cases were treated at the Albion Street Hospital, under the direction of Dr Lawrie, who had had a large experience of cholera in India. His statistics are as follows[1499]:
Albion Street Cholera Hospital, Glasgow, Feb.-Sept. 1832.
| Males | Females | Both sexes | Percentages of deaths | |||||||||
| Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | |||||||
| 370 | 251 | 662 | 419 | 1032 | 670 | 64·9 | ||||||
| Ages | Cases | Deaths | Percentages of deaths | |||
| 0-7 | 43 | 25 | 58·1 | |||
| 7-20 | 93 | 47 | 50·5 | |||
| 20-30 | 231 | 112 | 48·8 | |||
| 30-40 | 211 | 137 | 64·9 | |||
| 40-50 | 204 | 136 | 66·1 | |||
| 50-60 | 116 | 95 | 81·0 | |||
| Over 60 | 134 | 120 | 89·5 |
Monthly Cases and Deaths.
| Cases | Deaths | Percentages of deaths | ||||
| Feb. | 40 | 33 | 82·5 | |||
| March | 97 | 69 | 71·1 | |||
| April | 122 | 81 | 66·3 | |||
| May | 56 | 40 | 71·4 | |||
| June | 126 | 94 | 74·5 | |||
| July | 240 | 143 | 59·5 | |||
| Aug. | 273 | 176 | 64·4 | |||
| Sept. | 64 | 33 | 51·5 |
The noteworthy points are: first, the great excess of women admitted, which was observed also at Edinburgh; secondly, the higher rate of fatality at the two extremes of life, which is the rule in some other infections; and thirdly, the lower ratio of deaths to cases during the height of the epidemic in the end of summer, which is explained, as Craigie remarked for Edinburgh, simply by the fact that the infection was no longer in the worst localities, but was attacking “a greater number of persons, and consequently much better constitutions.”
The Glasgow cholera of 1832 was far more destructive than that of Edinburgh per head of the population, according to the following:
| Glasgow | Edinburgh | |||
| Population | 202,426 | 136,301 | ||
| Attacks of Cholera | 6208 | 1886 | ||
| Deaths by Cholera | 3005 | 1065 |
The fluctuations of the epidemic in the two cities were closely parallel. In Edinburgh from the middle of February to the middle of June the new cases usually ranged from five to ten or fifteen a day, with an occasional excess, as on the 29th of April when there were twenty-six persons seized. As in Glasgow, there was a marked lull in the end of May and beginning of June, after which the seizures became more common and remained somewhat steady to the end of July, some days having as many as twenty attacks. The largest number in one day in August was nineteen, the September maximum sixteen (on the 28th). Edinburgh thus missed the enormous outburst that Glasgow had in August, while the September experiences were much the same in the two cities. The first week of October, which was the time of a second maximum in Glasgow (far below that of August), was the worst time of the whole epidemic in Edinburgh, the cases coming from all parts of the city, as in Glasgow they had done in August.