D1.8.46: [Untitled]

D1.8.46: [Untitled]

Newspaper Clippings

Bleek updates readers on the (ongoing) 1863-1875 cholera pandemic (which he terms an 'epidemic') as it moves down sub-Saharan Africa, featuring two substantial excerpts from Britain's The Spectator and The Times that account for more than two-thirds of the article. He educates his audience about cholera to calm public hysteria, through no fault of government, surrounding the Renown's arrival at the Cape and avert the inhumane treatment of its passengers.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

21 October 1865

Two cut-out columns of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).

Cholera (England's latest coverage), Renown (its arrival causes public panic), disease (fear of it at the Cape), cholerine (in Hanover), epidemic (preceded by a cattle epidemic or rinderpest), prevention (cleanliness and ventilation)

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek.

Van de Sandt de Villiers & Co.