Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1832-07-16


The condition of 4 wrcrehad family fbneks, ia
Mulberry street shows how entirely delusye IS
our confidence n tn vigilance Of the city author
tl"s
Two # this fasy sslaasd on Wednesday,
Doctor shaw repor..I them - suspicious eases,
md informed the b.'rl thut som" twenty vasa-
bond blacks W. crowded INTO filthy house
which wn4 surrounded by stencil enough TO engcn.
der plague Ihe night before last, ana Yesterday
five more Oftne miserable Inmates slckrned Dr
5 generously continued his cxertons, but under
circumstances which forbid the hope Of saving
thrm, deprived rs they were, Of every necessary
md In the afternoon, two Of them died
Tie attending physician agaln reported the con
dtUn Of ms patients and the character of their dis
easa, strongly marked with The charactcrlsucS Of
the Canadian cholera. Nothing, however, was
tone either for the r.icf Of the sick the protec
ton thu ucishaorhood. The voluntary attention
paa BY Dr shaw o'h.se miserable blacks, stands
out IN honorable CONTRAST With those whose duty 1t
was to attend sub cs.ns
The impress ~ which, % ome sxtont, 5 abroad
thu William Iompklns who died Of Cholera in
Columbia street yesterday, WIS temperate man,
il erroneous We know that lie hau, been habltuol
hard drukcr for years. DR. Bruon, who found
THIS unhappy man entirely deserted, aud attended
hlm faithfully for several hours informs that the
disease greatly tac,Itatedby the patients fears
Who laborcd under the most terrific opprehenslons
that h. should dte Of the Choero.
II re have been Two or thfeg .to"ut cases ana
one death since the last report Of thc Board. One
man was taken last evening lar tn y aterug
place, aud died III few hours 4 woman Is sick
IN the samG house.
A man was taken on board sloop ut GgeenJush
last msht Who II not expected to recover IL was
"'d'H..'y temperate, bat drank to cXccsson the 4t
Upon the whole, our prospects are hcIter to-dot
thauthey were yesterday. The general health o.
tho city was never better
H6atrral Jaig 3. D, s5s.loas with on Of our
most intelligent aud respectable physicians, Dc
Robertson tins day, aud asking INN if the disease
hao quite or nearly ceased he replied thus =" The
pane Is over IN a great degree one does nat meet
dead Dodtrsby dozcns IN Nil directions, yet there
are more daily attacks aud more that prove fatal
than there were IN London and Edinburgh at the
height fits rayages in those places ia proportion
to the number of inhabitants. We learn from
Quebec that on Friday and Saturday, the 29th uit
there was something OF an increase vi the cholera
again.
From The Hdatrcdi Record Of Jgly3.
The weather has brcn very hot, and the atmos-
pAere hlls been strongly imptagnatcd with mcphl
TIC vapour for the last two days we believe that the
deaths wall be found rather to have increased IN con-
sequence The typhus fever aud common darhac
also prevalent, and numbers ofpoor Canadians
who hoyc recovered from cholera, hay e been attack
Ell with typhus Flyer others who have been cured
Of cholera, are retarded in the recovery Of thar
strength from the want of nutritious food which
cnn alone rcStorp their u au4Ir1 movers To a STAFF