Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-12-28
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JUS. come up "lp inc papers from TIC oeoiSo
Clinton, Capt. Rawson, to whom we are indebt-
ed for Liverpool papers Of the 5th Of November,
inclusive. The news from London is no later
than by previous arrivals. b
The total number Of deaths by the late riots in
bristol are so, and the wounded and MANNED 81.
y From the Liverpool Journal, Nov. S.
The CHOLERA IN ENeLAND-Great alarm pre-.
vailed through town yesterday, in consequence
Of letters from New Castle. stating that the Cho.
lera had made its appearance in Sunderland, and
soon after the arrival Of the Post, the following
extract from the letter of one Of the most respect
able houses in New Castle, was posted in the Ex-
change News Room:
NEW CASTLE, Nov. 2, 1881.
IS We are sorry to say that there is too much
truth in the report which we had a few days $50
Of the Cholera having been introduced into Sun
derland by the chest Of seaman who died at
Riga. 1t was then stated that the widow, who
opened the chest, had sickened. To-day we
have accounts Of six cases, five of which have
proved fatal.
1t is to be hoped that this statement has been
made in the absence of proper inquiry, and we all
know how prone people are to exasgerate under
mOmentary excitement The first news from
Bristol described the soldiers as mutineers, and
the sailors as rebels; but this has been proved to
be as untrue as the subsequent accounts, which
assert that 400 persons had been killed. We
hope the neu from Newca is not better found
ed; and the following, subsequently posted in the
Exchange. Room. tends to calm the public alarm:
tatte hod
considerable additional alarm about The Cholera,
and Boards Of Health are appointed at every
place in this District. Some violent cases of the
English Cho icra have been, but none that are
considered Of the continental character"
This is the more probable, as the Tyne Mer-
curry, published on Tuesday, contains the follow
Ing statement:
:. Great alarm has been excited in Newcastle
for some days past, from an apprehension that
the continental Cholera had made its appearance
in Newcastle. That very violent and unusual
case of Cholera Morbus has just occurred, is be-
yond all doubt; but we rejoice to be able to OBJ.
serve, that the opinion of the medical gentlemen
who attended, is decidedly, that it was not of fo-
reign origin. The person attacked was Mr. o.
valid Reay. engine man at Mr. Crawhall's rope
ry. He lived at the end of Sandgate. He was
attacked at eleven O'Clock on Wednesday night
last, and died twenty nine hours and half after
wards, namely. at half past four o'clock on Fri
dav morning"
If the news from Newcastle. however, be un.
fortunately true, the question Of cOntagion is set
at rest, and all available precautlon must be taken
to stop the spread of the maady; but until the
fact be substantiated bv unquestionable evidence,
founded opinion. Needless alarm, even in the
IF thp opI " TN inv 10 ne
ravagps; and that fear of the Cholera would ere.
ate alarm here, we are convinced, for yesterday
we heard more than one gentleman express his
determination to quit the town for either Wales
or France. Resolutions of this kind would soon
throw thousands out Of employment.
In the absence of authentic nformatlOn-fUr in
the Tyne Mercury there IS not word about the
seaman's chest, or the death of the old woman-
let not hope and reason desert US; and all the
evidence that has been furnished respecting the
progress of the Cholera on the continent does GER
ainy confirm the notion of the non contagi0n of
the disease. DIR. Johnson, who was well acquaint-
ed with the Cholera in India, and who is a physi-
clan of character and skill, has written several
letters in the London papers, condemning the
Board Of Health for having excited needless
alarm, and assuring the public that it the malady
even reached England, it would be speedily sub
ing causes; but he seems to think that the disease
is introduced BY the atmosphere. :" The most
recent conclusions. P" he says. -" to which our me-
dical officers (Drs. Russell and Barry) have come,
now limit the contagious character Of Cholera to
an extremely narrow point. and after four months,
| have no hesitation in reitcrating my opinion,
that if the Cholera come to these shores, it will
come shorn of its fatality, AMI coercible to de-
gree that will make the terror lists ashamed of
their omnous predictions and their visionary
specuaions.
In the Courier of Thursday, he writes:-. 1t
is stated recently. in journal of great respect
ability, that during period Of the late epidemic
cholera in Berlin. 400 houses we're visited by the
disease, and that, in 275 of these, only one ndi-
vidual in each house was affected, while in the
remaining 1856, four or five suffered in each man
sion. Such is the density of the population in
the parts of Berlin infected with cholera, that
the calculation assigns 4, 900 families, making an
average of four persons to each family, in the
above number of houses, being an aggregate of
l6,S0O people. who had lived in immediate con
tact with cholera. Of this mass, 76S were strick.