CholeraDataDK: Datasets on cholera outbreaks in 19th century Denmark.
In matthew-phelps/CholeraDataDK: Cholera Case Data from Denmark mid-1800s

Description A note about hospital records Datasets

This package contains three datasets:

cph_citywide_data Daily cholera morbidity and mortality
cph_street_data Weekly morbidity & mortality counts at the street level
cph_quarter_data Weekly morbidity & mortality counts aggregated to the quarter (neighborhood) level.
korsoer_age_gender Morbiditiy and mortality from cholera in Korsoer in 1857 broken down by age and gender. aggregated to the quarter (neighborhood) level.
korsoer_age_gender Morbiditiy and mortality from cholera in Korsoer in 1857 broken down by age and gender
korsoer_age_gender_pop Population of Korsoer broken down by age and gender
broad_st Daily mortality counts from the London Broad Street outbreak in 1854

Two datasets, cph_citywide_data and cph_street_data are found in Danish report compiled in 1854 by a local doctor. The cph_quarter_data dataset is derived from the cph_street_data dataset by aggregation. The Danish library listing for the report, along with a link to an online version is available online at https://books.google.dk/books?id=zxA1AAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y . The data were digitized by the author. There were a couple records that were unreadable due to the way the online version was scanned, but the data should be available in the original hard copy.

Cholera patients where recorded at the street where they reside by groups of doctors that moved around the town looking for cholera patients. Doctors would then send people with cholera symptoms to one of the hospitals around the city. At the hospital the patients were recorded, and their street address was recorded. It is unknown patients like these were recorded at both the street and the hospital (i.e duplicated). For example, it is unkown if a sick person living on Gothersgade and is subsequently sent to a hospital is recorded as a case for both the hospital and Gothersgade. For this reason I have excluded all hospital data from the aggregations to the quarter-level dataset, but they are inlcuded in the citywide daily data.