The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-04


As the foregoing Is somewhat calculated to alarm
are happy to have it in our power to add to it, that
to O'Clock last evening only four new cases had &C
into the hospital yesterday. As sal yesterday,
not yet alarmed. Why? Not because we do not tn
that these cases. at least majority of them are ca
of Asatic cholera for the evidence is now decisive
1t does exist in New York; but because for the len,
Of time that has elapsed since it first made Its appe
ance in Orange street. the deaths extremely
pared with population of half million and becas
almost without exception the decsa ed either Co.
rally addicted to incorporate habits, guilty
some debaubhery. uexcess, tor imprudence; or Ct
lived In those filthy regions Of the city, where disc
Of every kind is generated In . hotbed. The n
jority Of the patients first attacked those wretc
ed women who live at the Five Points and whose co
stitutions are so Frustrated by vice that they
capable OF resisting the action Of the poison. u
have made diigent inquiry into the cases that rs
occurred within the last few days and they can be
traced with one or two exceptions. to gross inter
perance or folly. For instance the waiter in Vute
tavern, csrner Of Chatham and Orange str sets, 81
night before last, ate lobster and drank cider aft
it. He was dead man in q few hours This "
enough to kill q man at any time, but perhaps Il
might not have been killed it not for the pois
in the pierre that rendered his folly douby da
gerous Shell-fsh. and indeed all fish. except gol
salmon Is highly improper food at this season. but Il
addition of cider Is dose that would poison hors
We have heard Of another instance, of . youI
German who had been complaining OF illness for ID
or two. and was induced to take enormous dose
salts which made him subject for the cholera hosI
tai. colored man, who had been also ailing took
pills, in order to make doubly sure" he
seized with diarrh9a and sent to the hospital but 70
tunatey he has been since discharged cured. Wha
ever, therefore. debiltates or deranges the syste
ought to be avoided for, though every imprudent .
may not terminate fatally, there Is always danger !
the enervaton Of the body. As in typhus fever an
other epi3emics, the more healthy and vigorous IL
constitution s the better will It resist the poisono
infuence and II it should seize a sound and tempere
man. he will have the better chance Of westhering II
storm There is one thing that ought to be- 10
sight Of In attacks Of this
thing Delay IL certain death. Yesterday, for e.:
ample message was sent to the cholera hespitsl I
have man conveyed from 81 Vesey street. When I'll
arrived there with the cot the patient dea,
Another occurred, whore the man actually died
the cot on the wsy!
IN BROOKLYN.
The Board Of Health met yesterday, but accord,A
to the statement Of DIR Goodrich. physician of tn
board no report for publication made II was q.
certsned however from authentic sources that Their
had been two cases sipce the last report. and on
death The death Is that Of the New York marks,
man named Thomas Bre-lane. who reported sio
ON saturday. There also a case reported a. hav
ing occurred In Doughty street near the Fulton ferry
This was about O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
The Newark IN Daily .1drerfiser, Of the I'd inst
saysWe hear of but fatal Of cholera In tht
city since our last publication which No
70 Quarry street The patient came here, We under
stand about q week since from Rochester with diar
rhos and was taken so violently I'll yesterday afternoon
that he sent for physician but died early this
ing MIR Lord we are happy TO hear continues to i'm
prove
The following reports we're received after portion
our edition yesterday was printed y l. Cox, resii o.
near Sparta, . commission merchant between Dovss
and New ork came from New York night before Last
III with disrrhGa and stopped ut Dovcr lie startcs
for home yesterday morning by stage but had to sto
at WoOport this side Of Sparta where he died a. s
Hurd's tavern, AZ o'clock this morning DIR J. Il
Stuart attended him, and pronounced 1t cholera. ~
also that cae II cholera occ urrcd n-a
Miilville in this county, which Terminated fatally las
night.