The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-25

HEALTH or TIKI CRY The following report
gives an interesting view of the health of this
cty:-
During the year ending the Stat December Isf7 the
attending physicians treated, at this dspsnssry thir
to n thousand seven hundred and twenty three pa
tents
Females. ''.''.. .'....''........... 1901
haieS' $3.50 oiil2
The numbers attended during the several seasons and
Winter. Spring. Summer. .qutumn
Dec. 1875 March. i0ie June. 1852 sept Iia5
Jan. 1850 April. 1000 July. 1855 Oct INA
Feb o6i May. 1900 Aug. 1850 Nov. HOO
Total. 5000 agos soss s3io
hete-These results meagra they are the only
reliable ones that could bs obtained from the books OF
fsrsnces drawn OF general and scientific interest from
the records Of this institution, were they kept With such
IL will be seen by this statement that during the year
1877 there has been excess OF one thousand eight
hundred aud eighty fourss PATIENTS over the amount
Of the previous year This presents a number far be-
yond the average annual increase The unusually large
immigration OF last year the miserable condition Of
most Of the immigrants condition favorable to the
ducton Of typhus other slisd diseases aud
lions Of the population the obvious OF this IN
creased number Of patients
1t must not be inferred that yphus fever the product
of misery and filth Is alone of foreign growth It 10
true that ships arrive from Europe filled like floating
szar houses with the sick aud the dying and that the
newly arrived enigrants are the most frequent victims
Of fever it is however ess true that most Of tho
typhus that has Been AID Is STILL at its work OF death,
in the city, is due which have their origin here
1t believed that most OF the foreign population that
broken down with typhus fever after their
arrival would escape removed from the daily ntuen
in deadly activity In the very midst of the city.
These poor creatures Frustrated by the su.rings az
their voyage the Atlantic especially sensible
their arrival In New York they throug those parts Of
the city where the deadly ingredients of this poisoh
Nor does the evil end here for from local general
Infection and the whole population bows to The violence
of the raging epidemis.
The frequent relapaes md the slow return to health
and vgor of those whose constitutions have resisted the
first onses of typhus and the existence of
chronic complaints the direct results of this disease
have been generally observed by the physcaps OF the
dspenssry 1t is worthy of note, in such cases that
ordinary medical treatment proves of little avail These
facts believed to be owing to that originally
produced the typhus fever the unisyorable condition
for health by which hoee persons thus aft cted
rounded in their homes. la estimating, therefore, tho
effects of this disease regard must be had to it's uteror
as well as immediate conference.-the thousand ills
| that follow in its train.
The of yphus fever have reference TO the ply
steal position OF the city ia it's nusncs health To
this condition, one by essential IN fact Is due
any epidemic with which New York has been afflicted
fsvers scarIatina, measles dysenteres, the summer
complaint of children and the fatal cholera the msg
nant nursengs of filth and foul air This subject comes
within the question of the wealth OF towns question
fully as pertinent in New York no in London; there
being much occasion for inquiry Into the voluntary
of death and disease here there These vouu
tsry causes, which Dolly working fatal mischief
obviously the impurities Of the atmosphere
by the corruption of organic matter In streets alleys,
factories slaughter houses and dwellings,, by the huu
ding together OF the inhabitants ia
houses and by filth and foureas wherever existing They
to be removed by proper sewerage and street clean
Ing by the strict execution Of the law in regard to null
by the judcious construction OF tenemerts for
the poor and by the promotion OF cleanliness end purity
1t to the prevention those dread disease that
bred from the corruption of the city that exerion must
be directed for science acknowledges herself powerless
for their cure These diseased form the great staple OF
the labor OF the dispensNy phyrcian and in truth OF
all the medical profession The experience OF OBJ
attest
ness OF drugs and mere medical management for their
treatment. r
The approach Of the cholera suggests, with startling
force motive for inquiry into the present state Of the
city in its bearing upon the health of its inhabitants
death In Asia, is in Europe There is to
hope that it viii not hher to destroy as it has
Nav York, it has destroyed before. Tbs natural his
tory Of cholera that its existence and progress de-
nh ar Is smS,
pollution of the CITY, breathing its vital atmosphere aud
for its work of death Physicians have for tho
cholera; there is no drug administered secundm artum
that will drive away this disease The laws, however,
which control its existence and diffusion are well
known, and are simply the plain laws Of health in
gard to cleanliness and deceucy Of life. A senseess
panic will not be the result of right view OF the nature
cholera but rational confidence based upon the
fact that this plague mey be stayed in all its evil The
disease is not contagious 1t cannot therefore, be avoid
ed by flying the sick dying 1t is infection that
exists and diused its causes, has been said be-
fore and cannot be said too often exist and are
| This subject has been referred to in a
what emphatic; it Is felt to be of grave Importance
Effort be In de for the removal of causes death
aud diseases that are known to b. removable No
Is better suited than the dspensary physician to give
direction to that effort for his daily abors and dangers
amidst the pollutons Of the city, the plague and the
pestlence.
1t will be observed tina. of all the seasons the
presented the greatest number Of patients and the win
ter the least and OF the months July the greatest and
February the smallest 1t is not presumed to draw any
exact infer from these data of the influence OF the
different seasons and months upon health The greater
number of patients during the summer partly owing
to the unusually large arrivals OF foreign mmsrsnss
Of diseases among children, as cholera infantum
diarrhca sc.
SKETCHES IN THE LIFE OF HoNoRA SHEPHERD.
The life of Honora Shepherd has been of
crime for many years (shs is but thirty and al
though often tried at Sessions courts for her
terfstng propensties she has by her personal beauty
tact, and winning address, managed ever to escape
save only in instance In February, s43, she
convicted Of passing counterfet money, BY Sessions
Jury and sent to Sing Sing for eight years and three
months Honora-whose maiden name OBrien-
the whole family from whence she sprsng being addicted
to fatal dabbling In forged paper several OF her bro
theirs and sister believe having bsen graduates of
State prisons those of other States also
her husbsndwas at that time younger than now, and
plainly indicated to Sheriff Jones who had her in
charge her plan Of operations. Perfectly acquainted
with human nature she had measured tho lady keeper
Of the institution and laid her plans accordingly Just
you keep still said she, addressing the Sheriff dur
ing their ride aud how will work 1t III be very
devil for the first three weeks and then l,l let Mrs
Farnham convert me III be as meek and quiet as
lamb I'll make her think me an angel, ana III natter
the old woman until she viii imagine that she herself
ia an archangel Won't do it, You see | am not
going stay in thoss stones walls long now tell you"
And Honora right On the 10th of April 1915, she
was pardoned through the iutercesson of Judge Ed
msnds, Mrs Farnhsm, and other mistaken phiantnro-
Pss by Governor Wright and hurried of to the banks
OF the Mississippi that with her supposed and
praise worthy resolves abe might commence new and
praise worthy career We have certain information
of her course of life out west but oharitaby presume
that she lived as correct rs the fraity OF her
nature would admit She correspondent with
Mrs. Fsrnham regularly until year 30 since, and
her letters frequently read before the members OF
certain phsnthropic associations proof OF the vast
benefit Of societies Instituted for the smelioration
the condition Of the erripg and unfortunate llonore
trump card in all their operations and was ever
living of the good effects OF their