Litchfield enquirer., 1832-08-23

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The cases have been BY far the most nu-
merOus in Orange, Mulberry, and Laurens
Of which have had reported
from one to two hundred cases. For instance,
IN Orange street, No. 90 had 10 cases No.
81 had z 50 had 10; 81 had l2; 80 had 9
and many other dwellings 4 or 5 each. Four
houses In Little Water street, Nos. 8, 4, 5,
and z, have had So cases. The streets in the
Sixth Ward, at and near the Five Points, fur
nish about 800 cases within the last weeks
and if those taken to the various hospitals
from that ward were added, il is probable
that the number would amount to full 1900.
By the late census, the Sixth Ward contain
ed 1880 inhabitants. IL we deduct those
residing in the ward in high and respectable
streets, and also the number that have left
the city or ward, the number left in tie crowd
ed aud filthy partitions, will probably be
about 10000; of this number. at least 1900
have had the disease, and full half have died
"a degree of mortality seldom eqMalled in
any country. On an examination Of the Sec
tons of the city where the disease has pre-
vailed the most, it will be found that they
are all principally made ground, or ground
that has been filed ia. Laurcns street, Five
Points, and near Manhattan Island, are all Of
this description.
IL the city authorities profit by past expe-
rience, they will, we think, make sOme law,
regulating the number Of persons who may
occupy house. 1t is notorious fact that a
number Ct individuals, some Of whom were
wealthy. in this city employ their capital by
covering their lots with tenements to shelter
the greatest possible number Of poor families,
renting them by the month, week, or day,
and compelling them to pay enormously for
these miserable accommodations. We have
the fact from an authentic source, that ON
two lots in a certain street in this city, $40
miserable poor persons were found at one
time, (being a population exceeding that Of
many country viIlages) who were crowded
together in two lots Of 40 feet by 100, or a
little more. We refer to the degraded pop
ulation of ST. Giles, in London, with no small
degree of disgust, while we have sections Of
our city inhabited by equally debased and
miserable blacks and whites, as deeply sunk
in crime and filth as any that can be found
within any of the parishes Of London.
Journal Of Com.
The Cholcra.-The approach ofthis enemy
Of the human race, says the New York Stan
dard, cannot be prevented. 1t comes we
know not whence or how. Europe and Asia
and America are full Of theories on this head.
By some it is said To be telluric-to rise from
the earth and visit us 10 the hitherto pure is.
sues of the fountains and springs-by others,
that il comes from decompOsed vegetable
matter, and by others, from the fourishing
vegetable world ITSELF never apparently more
nor yielding fairer produce. 9th
ers scent il in the atmosphere, or see it in Ia.
rid un.beams, or feel it in the sudden chan
ges from heat to cold and dampness, and
from the two latter to the former. All know
that it is here that it selects, as it were. as its
first victims, those who live Unexpectedly, (
and next. those who live generously; but that
1t does not spare any age. sex, or condition.
that it is fitful and whimsica-at one time RI
citing like a demon on the busy masses of
crowded cities; at another, wheeling in tenn
pOry mercy TO them, over the surrounding
country in disastrous circles, until gathering.
as it were. strength from what it feeds on. it |
strikes with double terror and increasing pow
er and malignity upon the fattered pOpula-
ton, which doubted almost its existence.-l
And when il reaches the cities. it darts from
district to district-from house to house.
from person to person-baffling conjecture,
spurning calculation. defying arrest. 1t rev.
els IN sunshine and stOrm-,nocks the light
ming, and scouts the thunder, as shields to the
most cautiOus-in a word, 1t is an enemy as
subtle as bold-as invincible as subtle--and |
as Implying and Unsuitable as il is mysterious
in its approach and obstinate 10 its Judgments. !
The papers mention the death of a Mr.. |
David Ballou, Of Cholera, under circun,stan-
ces OF the most aggravating character. Mr.. |
b. was on journey from Ohio to Cumber-
land. IL. /. bis native town. From New York,
where he tarried one night, he took passage
IN steamboat for New Haven, or some Mace
further east. After leaving this boat, he took
a seat in stage for Providence. During this
ride he was taken sick. The stage passen-
gers were alarmed, and attempts we're n,ade
~ leave him at some house, but nobody
would receive him for fear of the Cholera.
In this critical situation, he was denied seat
inside the stage-was taken out and dashed on
the top, and in this way was brought into Pro-
violence. But the old mans cup Of calamity
and suffering was not yet full. No person
there would grant him even shelter, and the
next morning he was found on the market
house steps. At length he prevailed on a
person, for the sum Of five dollars, to carry
him to his brothers., in Cumberland. nv
this time he had become so exhausted that
he was unable to sit up, and was supported
by the driver. His brothers. family were mn
less alarmed than his former companions
He was refused adn:ittance into the house.
but was conveyed to the barn to be nursed.
while messenger was despatched to Woon-
socket Falls for physician who had Just re-