The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-07-31

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a. hope that none will. The town is un-
commonly healthy and deaths are very
rare from other causes, as will be seen
by referring to our list of deaths. Our
Board Of Health have given the earliest
and most public notice Of this distressing
occurrence. and we understand il is their
Intention, In future, 20 keep the public
informed, without the leas. delay or eva
sion, should the disease again appear in
any shape Or manner. We do not COM
plain Of the restrictions, laid by other
towns in our vicinity, upon the inter-
course between Us and them /; nor do
we deny them the right to be their own
Judges, az to the measures which they
deem most conducive to their own safe
~. 1t is the duty, and The intention Of
our board Of health, to keep our neigh
bours correctly informed. and It is not
only their right but their duty TO provide
for their own security.
Since the above was in type we have
seen an article in the Boston Courier
stating that four of the passengers who
were landed from the sloop Hero had
since died in Newport. The statement
is untrue, Mr.. Pearce Bowen died in
the town of Bristol. fourteen miles from
Newport, and Miss Chase died at Ports
mouth nine miles from Newport.
Extract from letter written by DR..
Benjamin Waterhouse, of Cambridge
(Mass.) to his friend in Newport. res
psetisg the prevailing cholera.
Cambridge July l6. 1882.
My dear Friend
From the reports of Passengers, and
from what see in the Newspapers, i am
led to believe that the inhabitants Of
New York, and of other places, are in
danger of suffering from alarm, anxiety
and absolute fright, respecting the C1os-
era and am confirmed in that opin-
ION by the report Of the methenf depu-
tation, sent by the municipality of Bos-
ton, to enquire into the state Of things
in New-York. My attachment to my
native place, and to the few Of my old
friends yet left amongst whom con-
slider you and yours, as standing 6rst in
my regard, not only on your own ac-
count, but on TINT of your venerated
parents,-I have thcrefore thought that
u line from me. as Physicinn, as well
as friend, would not be unwelcome at
this time, when discordant opinions are
enough to distract any man not fortified
by firm health. From all that 1 can
collect Of the Asiat;e Cholers, and from
all that I have learned from experience
and hooks during long life, am led to
conclude that this disease is not catching
from man to man, like the small pox,
which you take il yoa co ne within the
atmosphere Of the patient. The three
Physicians Zone Of whom DR.. Ware is
connected with my family have not on
| ~ been in the very focus Of the malady.
where there were upwards Of two hum
dred cholera patients. but attended to
the examination of their diseased bodies
after death, and must have taken the
distemper had it been contagious like
small pox. From that fact and others,
I cannot believe that it is catching from
man to man.
believe the cholera to be. at this time
epidcmic (.hat is owing to some quality
in the atmospheric as much so as whoop-
ling cough, measles, and influenza with
this difference, however. that it general
ly attacks those who are incorporate
"the exhausted--the debauched-per-
sons whose lease of life is finished, or
forfeited, and in whom cholera only an
sicipates by few weeks Or months, the
inevitable course Of nature" Il is not
the rank, hut the habits Of a man. which
make him more or less liable to take the
disease. Those who have wealth G.
uough to procure every luxury. il they
indulge in intoxicating liquors or glut-
tonous meals, and above all in violent
passions Of the mind. As onger. or on