The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-07

II sc or giuht mill
ways going on bet,e The two places bot bv rod
haps than ia any other town In HE Uniied kingdon
people lston were Obliged 20 send over 10 Birn
town. The disease also prevsed In the nTonnd
}ston but la Brmingham with its 100 OOy .nhabanis
few cases tha occurred there HAVING been
imported chiefly along the canal from Bilston whites Don
close inquiry, single Instance could be found where
disease had spread nom the injected TO the healthy
The commissioners advert another fact which they
state To be in their opinion altogether eeoncleabe with
The notion OF eontagion namely that human means
have succeeded in excluding from particular spots,
carry IL in'o other places In the morrill,, says Londe,
the author of of the accredited works in France
ON hygiene while lines OF uoops unable
10 arrest its progress 1t has often passed large
without injecting any Intermediate place, and without
following collateral lines. At other times, it has been
concentrated on population which has continued 10
keep up free communication with the neiehbohood,
la France, for instance, where communication with
the infected has been everywhere entirely free there
are departments, parishes, towns, and villages,
which inve never had single case of cholera though
these different localities have been sometimes inundated
with persons who had He'd from places devastated by
disease Thus according to M MonG,con during the
prevalence cholera Maseiies in 1885, Lyons alone
ceived upwards of 10 900 INN grants from that town. and
lyons has never been attacked by cholera Sometimes
also portions OF towns though they maintained an unre
mated by cholera were never affected in the slightest de
gree AT ST Petersburg in 1891 one of the islands in The
Of ths disease and hi was Also the case o with the Fa
bourg Leopodstadt Vienna" Hence" continues NJ.
Londe " the transmiss bilty of cholera, any
what soeve,, appears to be a demonstrated tact"
The General Board OF Health IN their first notification
slered the official which have been received OF
the course OF Aslac cholera since the presentation oil the
having consulted medical practitioners of ennence aud Of
special knowledge OF the subject and having compared the
ting the former mode of propagation of Asiac
cholera in Europe, have now to represent;
evidence Obtained from observers of all classes in
countries and climates aud amidst all of the ply
steal political and social conditions people, appear
20 discredit the once prevalent opinion thai cholera
itself courageous an opinion which, if alacous,
Of danger ana the real means of protection xes on
those Which are imaginary; creates panic leads the
for what is worse than useless and withdraws a,tcn-
lion from that brief but important interval between the
which remedial measures are most effective in It's cure
Although it is so far uue that certain conditions may
favor lis spread from person 10 person. as when great
bes of the sick are crowded close
apartments yet this is not be considered affecting
General principle of its non. contag nature nor
Such conditions likely in this country;
the preventive measures founded thu theory of
zion aney, internal uations summary
dons and the isolation the Sick which formerly the
strongest reliance placed have been recently aban
Lonei in all countries cholera has appeared from
the general experience of their inetticiency,"
Tie Generni Board of Health have already transmitted
~ vour Ioriship copy of communication bearing dare
November the 9th 1913. made by the board to the prvy
council, setting forth OF ,s evils which have resulted
from the recent quarantine this country
ia connection with cholera. The board would beg your
ordshps attention to the following passage contained in
.sWitb the which the General Board of Health have
sd ps,n, II is nrob lille hnt he
question Of quarantine viii be again pressed upon them
h yhi, non their fol.hins atteu,ion aud among
o,ber documep,s of authority thew would recommend to
1tei , VI Of ,hy RnvyJ scsdanv If Md,cne
Of France with the facts as published by Dr. Gavin Mill
rov Tness anv icient facts can be ali
duced the board womu De ncnea submit ,n h 'e
Useless waste Of pnhc money in the maintenance OF in.
~ nious a nd iniurious esab ,lments
of