Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-08-17
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
London Morning Herald.-'In no
part OF the world have any been attack
ed by Cholera but those who have con-
tracted predisposition to disease. In
Russia, Prussia, and other places, this
was most evident and the same prefer
enee for the uncleanly has characterized
the cholera every where. Intemperance
Is qualifcs ton which it never over
looks. Often has it passed harmless o..
yer wide population of temperate
country people, and poured down as an
overlooking scourge upon the drunk
ards of some distant town.
London Medical Gazene.-"There
are differences between most writers on
certain circumstances connected with
the disease but on this point they all
agree-lntemperance gives claim to
the pssti!ence which it never overlooks.
In every town and every district, from
the Ganges to the Wear, the drunkard
has been the object of its earliest attack,
and its most ruthless visitation"
DIR. Becker, whose large experience
entities his opinion to much respect, OBJ
serves that ''the poor must strictly OBJ
serve cleanliness in their persons, clothes
and Houses; and, above all things, a.
void intemperance, which, at Berlin, as
every where else. has been found to rem
der It's votaries the first victims Of this
destructive pestilence."
temperance AnecGoie.-All expert
ensc, both in Great Britain and else
where, has proved the propriety of US
ing even much stronger language than
that contained in the report of the
Board OF Health to goyernment-that
othose who have been addicted to
drinking sPiriluous liquors, and in
dulging in Irregular habits, have been
the greatest sufferers from cholera.
In some towns which have been visi-
ted the drunkards are all dead. Where
ever it comes let each drunkard set his
house in order. Temperance societies
open wide for him the gates of the CITY
OF RetuSe-the Ayenger, fierce and re-
lentless, is at his heels.
Ramohun Fingee, the famous Indian
doctor, says that people who do not
take spirits or opium do not catch this
disorder, even when they are with those
who have it. Mons. Huber, who saw
2, 100 persons perish in % days in one
town Ill Russia, says, "it is most re-
markable circumstance, that persons
given to drinking have been swept a.
way like flies. In Tifs, containing 30,
OO0 inhabitants every, every drunkard
has fallen all are dead-not one re-
mains !"
A memorial, signed by large num-
Der Of citizens of New York, has been
addressed to the Board of Health, re-
questing prohibition of the sale of ar
dent spirits in the city. mot only the
intenperate, (says the memorial but all
those who indulge in the occasional use
of ardent spirits, are peculiarly exposed
to the attacks ofthe pestience"
htempGrance and the ChOlera.-We
have already mentioned the remarkable
fact, that Of 204 Cholera patients admit
ed to the Park Hospital down to a Ger.
tain date, 1875 were Incorporate. We
can now add, from the best authority,
that of all the patients admitted to Cor
laers Hook Hospital, down to the pre-
sent time, four fjths were Incorporate
and that while, of the collapsed cases,
only 3oper cent.of the temperate patients
have died, II percent. ofthe Incorporate
have died. Consequently, more than
nine tenthS of the deaihs at this Hospital
have been ofintemperate subjects.
Jour. of Com.