The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-07-11

in the sense that The mniady may becaugh
by inhming the virus or poison ahoat in the
air, arising from sick or dead body, or iron
clothes or other substances holding the poi
son, every man of ordinary understandn.
who has attended TO its course here, mus
be satisfied OF.
That il is not an epidemic or general, o,
attacking at once large bodies of people, OIL
existing in extents Of the atmosphere over
lying large parts of the country, is we think
equally clear;
For it has been limited to the towns anl
vicinity Of Quebec and Montreal; it flew
from Quebec 10 Montreal, without attack
ing any place intermediate; it came up the
st. Lawrence to Quebec without exhibiting
itself ut Halifax, st. John, Boston or New
York. all points nearer Europe, the source
of infection;
But its course in Quebec and its transport
tatlon TO Montreal, put it beyond all doubt
that it is not an epidemic in the usual sense
of the word. Those who have visited Que
bee know that considerable part Of the
town is higher than the other. The high
parts ofthe town, such as the Cape, may he
said to have been wholly free from the dis.
ease those less high, to have been partial
dured three fourths of the deaths; among
the soldiers on the Cape and in the lesnit's
barracks, confined to their barracks, and
precautions hauing been taken not 10 admit
suspicious persons, 40 case has occurred ;
houses in Champlan-street have produced
as many as from to 10 deaths each. the
adjoining ones, kept clean and disinfected,
have been wholly free from them WHEREBY
err one rase occurred two, three or four
universally followed, if the source of infec-
ton was not removed or the premises aban-
duncd.
AN the facts therefore fully warrant the
conclusion that q quarantine system is good,
and that had it been very strictly carried
into execution, Lower Canada would not, it
is almost certain, bear the disgrace Of hav-
ing admitted ii disease into America, which
will undoubtedly sweep off in the lapse Of
IL months, one in 90 to 30 Of the adult pop
ulation of the towns and villages, which may
rish the same city an unlimited number Of
times, and indeed produce in the end such
II dreadful combination of calamities as har-
row the mind to reflect upon.
From NELSON'S Quebec Gazetie, June e.
Total cases of Cholera reported for the
"a hours ending at 8, A. NJ, this day. Re-
10-disrharged, cured, 1l--convalescent 81
dead 10-remalning 80.
The malady has now been IN existence
here for eighteen days. During the first
fortnight it carried off 1000 souls, ptopor-
ton of at least in 81 of the population
OF that thousand we should say that 900
were adults, and estimating the adults, as
20 A of the population, the deaths among
adults would have been in 9. a ratio of
deaths really extraordinary, and warranting
the conclusion, that the malady, while it
has borne all the characteristics of rapid
dissolution remarked in the disease when
rayaging in Asia, it may prove as fatal.
These observations refer to the first fort
nights operation to the disease.
From that time to this, the 18th day, it
has frequently been of milder type, and
the new cases have considerably diminish
ed. Yet it cannot he concealed, that gen
orally speaking very many cases still occur
partakng Of the severest description, where
total exhaustion of the system follows two
or three hours after the enjoyment of health
and the commencement of spasms, and
where the usual remedies fail to operate
any beneficial change even in the most ro-
bust habits Of body.
The deaths at present must be about
1900, and it is remarkable that large por-
ton of them are men. This we believe is
the course it has followed in Europe; wo-
men and children suffering more in the lat
ter stages of the malady.
We are happy to say that the disease
does not spread IN The country parts. By ref:
erence to yesterdays French Gazette, the
reader will find the details of its effects in
the parish Of St. Nicholas, few miles
above Quebec, on the south bank of the ST.
Lawrence, and also the numerous cures
effected by Messire Dufresne, the priest of
that parish, who details under his own
name, the treatment followed in upwards of
50 cases, four or FIVE of which only proved
fatal. That treatment appears extremely
rational; it is merely inteina, stimulants.
and the substitute of the warm bath instead
OF friction.
Two or three fatal cases have occurred
at Pointe aux Trembles, at Lorette, at
PAnge Garden, on the north side of the
river; at ST. Michel, on the south hut there
is at present no appearance that the con-
tagion will spread.
Extract of letter from H. Gates & Co.,
dated MONTREAL. June 80.
The Cholera, though lingering around
and among us, falling off little one day
and increasing another, Is evidently on the
whole diminishing rapidly. We send you
list of daily deaths from the 18th to the
9th inst. ho,h days inclusive, lO32-added
to which l0l deaths out of III admissions
(all very bad cases, and too far advanced
in the disease to receive benefit from hu-
man aid) into one of the sheds or Cholera
hospitals, making total of 1913; and
without the least disposition to be alarmists
or TO exaggerate, we candidly believe, if it
could be known that another 100 might
yet be added.
A number of very respectable medical
gentlemen from Philadelphia are now here,
investigating the causes and progress of
the disease-one of whom, (Dr. Mihin) saw
Il good deal of the Cholera in Russia last
year, and who pronounced it the same dis
ease. All concur in the opinion that it is
not contagious.
From the Montreal Courant, June 80.
THE CHOLERA. Since our last an abate-
ment of this pestilence is visible. All the
Physicians with whom we have had oppor-
tunIlles OF conversing, say it is or the
wane. 1t is, however, consistent with cam
dor, und called for by existing circum-
stances, to say, that although the cases are
not numerous, many of them are marked
with all the severe symptoms. 1t may he
observed by reference to the report of the
Board of Health published in our last. that