Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-07-02

useful exertions of the Emigrant Society have
been rendered unavailIng, in consequence Of the
establishment Of quarantine at Prescott. The
alarm also is such that the boatmen have desert.
ed the craft to which they belong rather than H. =
cur the risk of infection. The effect is that orr
Society have now 1900 EmIgrants on hard with.
out the possibility Of sending them forward, and
to thesesw,lI be added all the fresh arrivals"
Doctors DE Kay and Rhinelander after having
nut themselves IN communication with the Board
Of Health. of Montreal. and several medical
practitioners, civil and military, by whom every
information was afforded them. aud opportunity
of witnessing the nature and treatment Of the dis.
ease, which the rarity Of the complaint would
permit, have proceeded TO Quebec to obtain FUR
Their Information from the Board Of Health Of
that city rne other medical gentlemen from
the United States, have occupied themselves Ia
visiting I.achine, and other places where the
Cholera sill -XIsis.
Quebec Official reports Of cases in the hos.
pitfalls from the mnrnlug of the Goth, to the same
period of the 2I>t:
Emisrant Hospital, remaining l2j, admitted
o. discharged cured 4, Gonvalescent %, dead
II, remaining 1873.
over Town Hospital, remaining "a. admit.
ted 8. discharged cured ., convalescent l9, dead
Is. remaining 65.
Total admissions 600, dead Sol.
In publishing the above, the Quebec Mercury
remarks:
"The Report of the Cholera to day IN the hos
pitaI shows no additional cause for alarm; the
admissions are two less than appeared on the
last return, the number discharged cured, is
greater, and the convaescent only two less than
Yesterday. We have the satisfaction also OF
learning, from respectable sources, that the cas-
es in private houses are neither gu malignant nor
SD numerous as they were. On the other hand
we are sorry to learn that the disease has shewn
itself in several places on the banks OF the St
Lawrence; on the South shore from BEAUFORT TO
Chateau Richer, some cases are SAID to have ap.
peared in each parish, and OH the South shore,
we hear it has appeared at the River OuFlIa-
Amongst the raltsnen at the several Coves 1t Is
said to have been very fatal"
kingsfon-'rhe Medical Board of Health of
Kingston announce 2 new cases on the Goth inst.
, and on the 2lst. There was one death from
the disease on each of those days.
Laprarie "A letter from DR.. Bronson, dated
at Laprarie, on Sunday. says one physician there
had AZ cases Of cholera and 20 deaths. There
have probably been 60 cases in the village.
Brocku,ite. There were three cases at Brock.
vile on the l9th-two of which were mild, and
one severe.
1t was mentioned the other day that there had
been supposed case Of Cholera at Montpelier.
The following account of this case has been
published by DIR. Dewey, Of that village:
"On Sunday afternoon family, seven in
number, Of wretched emigrants, directly from
Ireland, through Quebec and Montreal, was
brought through this place BY young man or boy
said to belong to WilIiston, or the east part OF
Burlington. carried through the village, passed
few rods into Berlin. and there left.
We were Immediately requested to see her,
not weane,l) and found her at six p NJ. with all
the symptoms Of approaching dissolution. From
the accounts of herself and husband, she bad
then been very sick for about six hours, with
constant vomiting, diarrhra. &C., though she
had lust arrived. Every thing was done winch
the circumstances permitted tor her recovery and
comfort, but she died Monday morning at hive
o'clock An examination post n,orfem was mad,
and no doubts remain OF its being case OF inc
Spas,nodic or Endemic Cholera. Notwithstand-
inc free communication existed with many in
dlvlduals, no other case, as | before remarked,
has occu rred, aud the panic which was at hrst
excited in this place and vicinity, has mostly
subsidized"
The following is copied from a report of the
Pattsbursh Board of Health, of June Is, CON
talneu IN an extra vi tHe Ih"'"u'
:" A case of sudden death occurred near this
village, Yesterday. at five o'clock. 1t was that
of an emgrant, who mad travelled on foot from
ChampIain, in company with ano.her-he had
complained of weariness--fell while walking
| in the road, and expired in,about an hour
He and his companion had sever al phials and
papers of powders. some Of which contained
substances Of a poiso nous nature. There are
suspicious circumstances in regard to his death,
which the magistrates are now investigating
The physician who was present at his death, re-
ports to the Board, that he cannot pronounce It
case of Cholera"
Monument TO the Mother of Washington. -
Mr.. Hall. of Albany, the Contractor for the
building of the Monument to "Mary the Mother
of Washington arrived inTown on Wednesday
last, for the purpose Of preparing the foundation,
which, we understand, it is intended shall be ct