Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-03
BoARp OF HEALru,
Norfolk, sOth of July, 1852. }

Norfolk, sOth of July, 1882.
The Board of Health, in compliance WIN tue
ascertained wish OF the inhabitants, report, upon
the authority Of the physicians, the present sta.e
of the health Of the town, and give an assu,ahoe,
(if any, in addition to sense OF duty anu .hen
obligations to the public, can be requiren') mat
from time to time. as may be deemed necessary
true and exact expose of the state OF the hea''h
of the town shall be made known.
The reports of the physicians, who nave as
nromntly as politely com Piled with the request OF
the Board in communicating Them give SIX cases
of Cholera up to IL o'clock This days OF wnich
three have died; and three cases OF doubtful cha-
racter. The deaths have been conhneo 10 Peo-
pIe of color; there is but one case OF "n'e per
son reported. and that is classed under the heau
of "doubtful."
The Board have the pleasure to announce that
with the exception Of the above cases. the Town
enjoys an unusual degree OF health.
BY order Of the Board:
Tho. q. BRoUGHToN, Secy.
sThe first case occurred on Thursday night last
Health of the Town.-The physicians had not
reported any new case OF Cho!era up 10 -
clock yesterday. The Board OF Heslth WIN
meet this afternoon, and publish their report TO-
Norfolk Herald Of Wednesday.
Health of Portsmouth, The cases Of Cholera
reported in our last. were up to IL O'Clock on
Sunday. There was one death in the afternoon
of that day. a colored man about so years oil age:
On Monday there were four deaths, all co'oIed
persons. one an old. and one middle aged man.
and two children under years OF aye. There
were within the same "a hours, 90 cases 0f the
disease which recovered and are cOnvalescent.-
Yesterday there were four deaths up to O'Clock
in the afternoon. including two white PERSONS
one of unexceptionable habits, but was without
medical aid Tor 10 hours after the attack; the 9th
er somewhat irregular if not incorporate. one
of the blacks, an elderly woman, was attacked
at one O'Clock. p. NJ. anu was corpse at haif
past four There were about ten cases yester-
day which yielded to medicine by timely apnlI.
cation. and are considered conva'escent, and
two which were not expected to recover In
every case. we learn, in which medical aid was
annIied at the commencement, the patient recO.
vered.
The authorities are bestirring themselves to
cleanse the town and remove all nuisances; bet
ter late than never; but how much better had It
been If the work had been commenced little
sooner.
There was an error in the name OF one OF the
white men reported in our last; it was Grossly
and not Crosble The marine, we learn, was an
old soaher; he ate q whole water mellon and cut
up the rnd aud eat il with vinesar.-i6
Cholera ia Holland The last accounts from
London state that the steamboat Batavia had ar
rived there from Holland, with intelligence that
the Cholera had at leusth made its appearance
in that country. That This dreadful scourge had
so long spared Holland has excited astonishment,
and some people in their endeavors to mud
cause for deviation from what they conceived
ought to have been the natural course OF the dis
ease have attributed it to the extreme cleanliness
of the Ducth. 1t has notwithstanding now shown
itself in Holland as if determined to give another
proof of the utter falacy of all calculations and
reasonlngs in relation to it. The truth is, that
the Dutch though more cleanly in their habta-
tons, are less so than either the English or
French in their persons. Ard now, it il be true
that the cholera follows the currents of rivers,
that it is most malignant in marshy countries, it
ought to prove extremely fatal in Holland; we
should however not be astonished to learn, that,
as if again to show the utter absurd'y OF attempt
ing TO apply with our present knowledge any fix
ed rule to the progress or intensity OF Cholera,
it should not prove more severe in that country
than It has done in EnglaDd.-N 7. Courier
$500.