Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-06-25
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1882.
THE CHOLERA.

New YoRK, June Of.
There is no further intelligence from Canada
this morning, and the Albany papers OF last eve
ming contain a number Of letters aud statements
from the North, which ought in great measure
To allay the unnecessary panic which has been at
least prematurely created in this city. With the
execution of the suspicious case at Mechanics
Vile there is no evidence whatever, that the Asst
attic Cholera has had even moments existence
this side Of the boundary.
letter from the Trustees of the village OF
Whitehall, to the Board Of Health Of Albany,
states the case OF Larned, so often mentioned,
as one of doubt. 1t will be recollected that this
man arrived sick in the steamboat Phoenlx lie
belonged to Troy, and died OF dissipation. The
Trustees say there had been but one other case
of a doubtful type The village was now entire
ly healthy: there were but few emigrants at that
place, who were all clean and healthy.
A letter from Samuel Burnett, a magistrate OF
Fort Miller, states the simple factsin regard to
the sickness and deaths at that place to have been
these. The water having been drawn OIL Oh the
9TH, number of emigrants were consequently
detained at that place. In the course OF three
DAYS, three of their number sickened and died
of the common cholera morbus of our own cOun-
try. The number of emigrants thus detained
was about eighty. They are cleanly, healthy
and respectable looking people. and there was no
extraordinary sickness among them.
The authorities of Troy, West Troy, Lam
sinsburgh, Waterford, and other places IN that
direction. continue in the use OF the most effective
precautions for stopping the tide Of emigration
from the North. All the emisrants arriving
are subject to rigid inspection and quarantine.
In regard to the case of the stranger at Me-
Gainesville, the only one Of any Importance, we
add the following information. An extract from
a letter from DIR. Tibbits, giving an account Of
the case down to six o'clock on Monday after
noon. was published in the Commercial 81 last
evening. The annexed memoranda Ut the case,
10 the period of its termination, have since been
furnished bv the physician:
Ntne o'elock.-Patient says he feels better
cramps not so severe-urinary functions suspend
ed-symptoms on the whole no better.
Tuesday, a. M-Tongue coated with
brown fur in the middle, and dry articulation,
not above whisper. This has been the same
since 6rst saw him; had stool at IL O'Clock,
about as impd as pure water; breathing oppres-
sed; ewes suffused hearing inds,inct; violent
cramps at the pericardia; not mu oh in the legs
and arms; functions of the bladder still Cypress.
ed: great restessness; no pulse has been percep-
tible since the commencement; dissolution evil
denty approaching; attempted again to bleed
from the arm; not more than. two spoonfulls OF
dark blood was procured; repeated caiomel and
cordials. with warmth and friction.
9o'cLock.-Dying; few moments after expir-
ed; appears to be about fifty; his companions de-
clare him TO be temperate, but a moderate drink
er; say they have seen no case OF cholera.
Extract from a letter from highly respectable
gentleman in Mechanicsvie, dated 18th instant,
to the Editors Of tn e Albany Daily Advertiser:
Last Sunday afternoon an Engishman and his
five daughters came into this village Yesterday
the man sent for DR.. Tibbits, whose opinion of
the case you have already heard. At 10 o'clock
this day he died. and now lies dead in little
howell on the canal no one venturins to bury him,
although am using every exertou tor that Pur-
pose.
The way in which we send food to the unfortu-
nate females is this. A man goeswithia few
rods of the howell, sets down the food, and after
hallooing, retires. The females then come out
take it away. My family is somewhat alarmed
A letter from the same gentleman at later
hour of the day, has the following information in
addition.
The man has been buried. Several physicians
have arrived from New York, and DIR. IIbbits
has communicated to them the particulars OF the
case There is no doubt that 1t was the Asiatlc
Cholera.
The FIVE daughters have had removed to barn,
about 2U0 rods from my house. The report IS
now. that one of them is sick. What it will end
in, God only knows.
Thus far, then. it appears very satisfactorily,
that there has been but one case that could be
called Asiatic Cholera. within the territory ct
the United States: aud that case was an emf
grant, who, If indeed he had this disease. brought
the seeds with him from thehold of infected ship
Board of Health, k<dssssday Ersaing O'Clock.
The business conips before it not being Deem
cd ,mportant to the citizens. official report was
considered unnecessary. We have been polite
" favored, however, bv General Morton, the Pre-
sfdent of the Board. With the information that re-
ports had been received from the different Wards.
representing each TO enjoy an unusual degree of
health,-not single instance Of contagious dis
ease being in existence in the city 1t also aP-
peared that the sanitary measures directed BY the