Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-05-31
How to Escape the Cholera.


Although we have no symptoms of Cholera
among US, yet we can hardly escape the visitation
that is affecting many of our sister cities. Il
becomes US, however, to prepare at once to give
it such reception as will render visitation as
mild as possible. We therefore publish, for the
information of the public, the sanitary regulations
of London, based upon one of the most minute in
vestigations that ever was made into the circum.
stances attendant on an epidemic disease. The
editor of the London Lancet says: "these simple
measures are worth all the nostrums or specifics
which have ever been vaunted for the cure OF
cholera"
"L Let every impurity, animal or vegetable, be
quickly removed to distance from the habitations,
such as slaughter bones, pig sites, cesspools, ne
cessares, and all other domestic nuisances."
We do not believe that animal pe,rilactlons are
ever connected with epidemic diseases, but there
can be no objection to their removal from habita-
tions.
Let all uncovered drains be carefully and fire.
quenty cleansed.
I" Let the grounds in and around the habitations
be drained, effectually to carry off moisture
of every kind.
Let all partitions be removed from within and
without habitations, which unnecessarily impede
ventilation
=" Let every room 6e thrown open for the ad-
mission of air; and this should be done about
noon, when the atmosphere is most likely to be
dry.
" Let dry scrubbing be used in domestic cleans
ing, in place of water cleansing.
Let excessive fatigue and exposure to damp
and cold. especially during the night be avoided.
"Let the use of cold drinks and acid liquors
especially under fatigued. be avoided or when
the body is heated
"Let poor diet, and the use of impure water
in cooking or for drink, be avoided
Let the wearing of wet and insufficient cloth
ing be avoided.
" Let flannel or woollen belt be worn about the
abdomen
IN. B. This has been found very serviceable
in checking the tendency to bowel complaint, so
common during the prevalence of cholera. The
disease has, in this country, been always found to
commence with looseness in the bowels, and in
this stage is very tractable it should, however
be noticed, that the looseness is frequently attend
ed by pain or uneasness and fatal delay has of.
ten occurred from the notion that cholera must be
attended with cramps. In the early stage here
referred to- there is often gripping cramp, and
it is at this period that the disease can be mos,
easily arrested
"Letp personal cleanliness be carefully observed
Let every cause tending to depress the mora
and physical energies be carefully avoided.
" Let crowding of persons within houses and
apartments be avoided.
" Let sleeping in low or damp rooms be avoided
| " Let fires be kept up during the night in sleep
ing or adjoining apartments, the night being the
period of most danger from attack, especially un
der exposure to colo or damp.
:: Let all bedding and clothing be daily exposed
during winter and spring 10 the fire, and in sum-
mer to the heat of the sum-
/ DR.. Drake, physician in Cincinnati, whose
acquaintance with this disease is said to be as ex
tensive as that of any practitioner in the West ha.
published some suggestions on the subject, which
we think worthy of notice =
1. That leaving the city can do no possible good
The disease is not contagious. The cause of i
has already spread through the city. and been re
received into the bodies of the inhabitants. Those
who escape to the country are more likely to b'
ill, than if they remained at home.
i 2. Epidemic cholera has no premonitory symp
toms. The diarrhea, which is supposed to be it,
forerunner is the disease ITSELF in its first stage
as positively so as when it has advanced to vom
| ting, or coldness and collapse.
/ g. The disease may be generally stopped, i
met in that early stage; if it cannot then, it can
not afterwards 1t cannot even then, if the pa
tient continues on his feet His life depends OF
his lying by.
/ a. All persons who have worn flannel during
the winter should keep it on until the epidemic ha.
passed away.
PA, aint growing tall :"
Why, what's your height sonny !"