The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-12-18

nal skin and the internal lining membrane of the bowels,
w9rm clothing is Of great importance The wearing OF han
the daytime flannel bandage round the body and this may
become necessary in our own country dunng the damp and
| cold weather of the approaching season.
Particular attention should be paid to keeping the feet
warm and dry changing the clothes Immediately afterexpo-
sure to wet and maintaining the sitting and bedrooms well
It may be necessary to add caution against of cold
pugave medicines such as salts particularly Chamber Salts
QHantitg in such season, dangerous Drastic purga
tves of all kinds shou be ayodedsuch coOcynth
and aloes, except under special medical direction
IT, Notwithstanding these precautionary measures, person
seized suddenly with cold giddine vomiting and
cramps under circumstances in which instant medical assist
cannot be procured the testimony OF the
most experienced medical authority shows that the proper
warmth by OF heated flannel bottles filled with hot
salt the feet and along the spne have the exemies
diligently rubbed to apply large poutce OF mustard and
twenty minutes and 70 take every half hour teaspoon
full Of sal volatile in little hot water desert spoonful of
brandy in little hot water VINE glass OF hot wine
whey made by pouring wine glass Of sherry INTO tanibsf
of hot milk in word to do every thing practicable to pro-
warm, general peTspation, until the arrival OF the
medical attendant whose immediate care under such cir
cumstances, is indispensable.
It has been deemed necessary proper to give nsue
tons for the treatment Of the advanced stage from conf
dent that ne proposed WIN Supply
medical attendance to all cases that may reach that eondon
case will receive their appropriate treatment
Though the season OF danger may demand some extao
this period will probably not be protracted since the
former visitation Of cholera it seldom remained in any place
more than few weeks while may be reasonably expected
that the improvements effected with vew to check Us pro
gres will be equally efcacOus in shortening its duration
and that these Improvements will not be temporary like the
occasion that called for them but will be attended with last
In conclusion the General Board of Health would again
urge the consideration that whatever preventive OF cholera
equally preventive Of yphus and Of every other EPIDEMIC
and constantly recurring disease and would earnestly call
that formidable this malady is in its intense form and de-
veoped stage there no disease against which IN our
power TO take such eectua p[ecauton, both as collective
communities and private individuals by ygLant attention to
1t in its first pemOntOry stage and by the removal OF those
agencies which are known to promote The spread OF an cpl
demc diseases Though therefore, the Issues OF events are
in hands, there ground for hope and even conn.,
OpOecOn which experience and science have now placed
BY order of the General Board of Health:
HENRY AUSTIN, Secretary
Then comes a copy of Instructions issued by the
Poor Law Commissioners to the Poor Law Inspec-
tors, detailing the measures to be adopted and
course to be pursued in all districts liable to the
disease This is strictly local, and relates princi-
paly to the adoption of means for the preservation
of cleanliness, the necessity of which is forcibly
commented upon Then follows a report of Drs.
Sutherland and Granger respecting the cases of
Cholera which occurred at Hull on board vessel
from Hamburg. From this it appears that these
physicians do not consider the disease liable to be-
come epidemic in place, merely from the fact of
port. In the cases at Hull the patients had the
seeds of the disease within them; but it probably
would not have been developed had they not COM
mitted excuses by eating decayed fruit, and drink
ing acid beer. Moreover these cases are thought
to afford strong confirmation of the doctrine of nom
contagion. Next follows an extract:
The Cholera at Hamburg.
From Report to the General Beard of HEALTH receged
Of 1874 kU K ID (1R Esq. 0h8s
been deDued 5y the Board to make inquiry 20 taeprO
gTess Of Cholera at Hamburg.
1t appears that in 1881 and 1922 two hospitals were erected
abandoned When the disease broke out in September last
head Of the Sanitary Board of Hamburg applied to the
Trustees of the General Hospital (and presumed to the
mason for permission that those Cholera patients who
ing to circumstance could not be attended at their own
homes such sailors emlgTants passing through the town
from the interior destitute persons etc. should be admitted
into the hospital This application advocated by Dr.
Ban the medical director of the hospital and acceded
by the trustees who consist of respectable merchants etc
In order secure roper attendance the number OF
was increased two day and two night (mae and e-
male according the ward being attached each
Cholera wards shared by all the nurses male and female,
Of the hospital so that eight fresh attendants enter the two
Cholera wards daily 1t is also worthy of remark that far
from dislike 10 this particular service being evineed the
nurses ght the cupaOn The ordinary patients of the
hospital were not alarmed according TO express inquiries
made ascertain this point in OF the admission
of the Cholera on the contrary they collected IN the
corridors at the doors of the Cholera wads and such
that the physicians found necessary to give orders
As on the Cholera patients become convaescent they
sent into the wards, and are dispersed ndcmi
Those Of the ordinary patients who have been attacked
with cholera have remained in their wards.
None of these circumstances have caused any ALARM as
the general director Of the hospital informed me that Of the
elusive OF the insane has Quilted from alarm. One
lady who ia the establishment in consequence of Illness
left when the cholera patients brought in 1t has also
been found that the friends of patients in the hospital have
visit them freely usual but many still come,
tbem of which had pleasing example to-day Being in
e cnOgs o Sad bg b oo her hand
close the bed talking to her. On being asked if she had
fear of catching the complaint she laughed and seemed
The medical officers of the hospital and of the town are
quite satisfied the disease does spread by cOnagon IN the
following facts be mentioned Up to October 4 the
have occurred in Hamburg and if the total population be
bo a e bo9 in ST. RO the Genera e U Hop G E5
October there have been IL Of cholera the
patients and unatcs and the total number OF
patients attendants 1902 the proportion Of cholera
will be in 1873 It particularly interesting, that not
nor have any of the medical officers suffered also proper
to state, that although the locality of the hospital consd
cred be healthy there have been of cholera
among the inhabitants in its immediate neighbOrhOod;
These and many Others have quite removed the fear
Of cOntagon from the minds OF all classes As proof OF
the great change that has taken place since 1851 may be
mentioned the authority Of the General Inspector, that
when the first pOst-0rteBg examination Of cholera
made the surgeon put gloves thing quite unusual
anxious hat ali persons attacked should if possible be
tended home and this has been carried into effect to such
that have been taken 10
the three hospitals the only public establishments for the
reception Of patients The evils that have been no
ticed other TO the great alarm excited existed
formerly here when special hospitals established. The
passage of those attacked through the streets has also caused
nj conse1uences When at the General Hospital to-day
informed that woman had been brought IN who
suddenly seized after violent fright. caused by seeing
the cholera cradle pass By.
in connection with this subject it may be stated that there
is no special fever hospital in Hamburg any fever wards
in the general other hospitals the fever patients dis
pered Unfortunately thrOnsh the common wards, and
without III effects. Dr. Neville. assistant physician of the
General Hospital who has studied at Berlin Heidelberg and
Halle that the plan to the dispersion OF the
fever patients adopted and that be has, during the three
years he studied in the above universities, known
heard of typhus other eve spreading in consequence of
the adoption of this plan.
Progress ofthe Disease in Europe.
Extracts frog Report BIZ DR.. ADAIR CRAWFORD the
recent Visitation Of Oh terra at 81. Peters5Hreh.
The Asatc Cholera reappeaed in Europe in the spring of
1s47 Advancing from Pesa, where it had prevailed for
some time penetrated into Russia through the Caucasus
and first broke out in the Imperial Army engaged in the
Caucasian War appears from the reports Of Professor Pr