New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-08


prevalence Of Contagious ;a,al epideui-s Bui ~he
We fully recognize this AZ almost sscre1 duty inn
posed upon the daily press a. The Same tine con
sder tbe OBJ cation equally binding upon Is 10 sTod
becoming aiarmiss The panic INTO which citizen
have recently been thrown urcn The subject q iAe
Cholera, W nave already deprecated - wholly unca--
ed Tor b. any authentic fs.s We have therefore PER
seycrugy sought 20 prevent ihe nschsis with ~hich
our City has suffered rem The adscfeton o. Oh alarm
ists whether smo.s the civil s1th0riues TIE medical
profession or our brethren Of the Press Public aPPre
BENSON being 4, length slayed TIE tine would seem %
have arrived u and proat BY the facts and de-
veopmeui. hich have usnspired N this oonnexion.
come # which should serve ssuisry esscn - te
improved upon BY whom il may concern
Inc fatal sickness board the chip NeT-Ycrk IRON
Hsgre seven passenger. having been icsi on the pa
sage while nearly al the rs,', some three hundred,
were landed a. Quarantine good health 10y or msy
not have been Choers-no competent authority - &C.
eide that question having been On board That's such
va. the fact however IL rendered probable Tor the
treason that Immediately after the passengers Of its
~Ship asFtfanded. and the s.ck placed in the Co1va
lcscsni Hospital number Of cases occurred among
the inmates Of this building which we're rapidly fstai
and whose disease va. pronounced 70 be Cholera We
entertained dfeTeni opinion % the nature u the
disease a. the time but in tbs have been mis-
taken and for he purpose Of this article viii
stcr that 10 wss the genuine Cholera TIE GONZALES
cent? being then removed % other buildings several Of
these developed the same sesse aud died 10 theft
new quarters Meanwhile the passengers By The M ised
ship we're still detained. and even crowded IN spsrt
meuts Of the COnvslescer Hospital known A. the Pub
lie stores the identical buildings whore the hfst cases
on shore had occurred Very soon these began TO
.cken the ratio Of three to every night and
though the cases officially reported 20 be mild
yet the daily mortality proved that mild 80 It was !,
destroyed life al fearful The authorities both
here and At the Quarantine urged 10 remove the
healthy Immigrants from these buildings into healthy
! air but from Cause nothing Wss done for msny
days until many Of them escaped from their imPrson
rneut and from the Cholera ~ length the adjacent
Hospital buildings began 20 show irsces Of Infection,
and fe v cases occurred the fatality Of the disease
naming unchanged
Such l. .uccnct narrative Of the disease staten
Island No has occurred outside Of the Hospital
walls though surrounded by dense population, and
free intercourse BY dag and night mas been unuierTuPt
ed nor have either doctors nurses suffered attack
The ferries have been running 10 the City hourly As
usual and hundreds OF physicians and others have
daily passed TO the Hospital and back. Surely there Is
nothing in all this which ought to alright popua
ton deter strangers from visiting City. although
forty or fifty fatal thus sdmiued to have
CURED at Quarantine the Bsy eight miles
from NewYork
But how stands the case 90 far as our City 10 di. |
recty concerned Only three cases are alleged 10 |
have occurred within the City. The fret was man |
from staten Island, who had been employed in bury
ing the patients and had only left the Quarantine few
hours The sfcoad was by strange coincidence, in |
the same house in Greenwich st which was in condi
ton Of nth, with 200 loigers. aud ly VENT
lated that single case OF fatal Cholera might have ong
mated there Ia any The nrd was found in |
dying circumstsnces IN Washington Il In similar |
boarding house for Immigrants No other case has 0c
Cured in the City. although other precautions have
been taken than simply to cleanse the houses con
cernod. The City is in an unusually favorable state OF
general health for the Of the year and even our
hospitals and other public Institutions are tree from
epidemic disease Of any kind.
10 view of such facts, repeat that there mas been
uniounded alarm raised and tina, there has been At
no time any just ground for panic Last summer a
similar uncaled for terror excited by the in
dscrcions In relation TO Yellow Fever occurring q,
Quarantine while the Winter before little less alarm
created about the ship Fever with little show
Of reason II the Health Officer will but give bis per
sousl attention to the matter aud not trust too much
incompetent irresponsible deputies the occurrence
Of these diseases AZ Quarantine need terriiy our
citizens blast the commercial interests Of our City
brief aluson 10 the mtfoal ireameaf Of the Chol
era patients 1t the Quarantine remains 70 be noticed
Il ls understood tina, various plans OF medication
adopted a, hst bat that large majority Of the patients
have been sub ccted TO what is called ie sliiae treat
meEf" Of Dr. stephens of santa Cruz which consists
OF common salt. bcarbonae Of soda and chlorate OF
potash al dissolved in ws.er sud very large dose
given every hour. This il seems has been relied on
exclusively internal remedy, aiding II by heated
air q the skin IL is said that in few cases single
dose OF cslone preceded this treatment but m st Of the
patients dosed with this combustion Of salts uatl
they dead The fatality OF the disease a, Staten
Island think should silence the criticisms Of the
Faculty upon CsPt Lyudes management Of bis patient.
on board the ship. which iu.i as successful a.
THERE for al or nearly al died ia both cases Why
was not Dr. Roes plan Of frictions with mcrcural
ointment pepper and csmphor tried at staten Island
or D. Reese. treatment with Ice and calome internally
and in some cases bleeding for the Doctors at the
Quarantine could NOT be ignorant the success, Of both
the.e gentlemen In ls52 and ls4 in ihi. city The ire.
quent reports Of deaths nearly equal the number OF
cases think should have prompted TO some chanse
IA the medical treatment Of the disease Staten Island
Especially when Dr. Cartwright Of Mississippi Is re.
ported by Secretary Walker has proved the potency
OF meroural remedies 10 Choera, as aid many of our
Newlork physicians in the former epidemic. A, al
events the want OF success Al Quarantine should here
after cause some hesitation about persis,ng in IL aud
We insert the prescription here for caution a. inst this
saline treatment" We doubt whether many human
siomschs sick well could long withstand such doses
OF 30 active spoison the cAiorais Of potash ia
grain dcses every hour
The following recipe has been furnished Us by oue
OF our reporters who obtained from suihorty as the
identical prescription adopted the Quarantine Hos
pitss viz Take Of common salt drschms and scru.
pie. Supercarbonaie Of soda, I ounce Chloraie Of
Potash ~ grains. Dissolve the whole IN ounces Of
wser. and then give the patient Tablespoonful every
hour. IN wine giAss full Of wster
oar conclusion Of the whole matter 4. thu, amid
form Of the Choors has existed AZ the Qaaraatne and
that It's fatality has been greatly increased by the aiop
ton OF Whist elsewhere may have proved successful
but At Staten Island erroneous treatment; that there
has been occasion for slarm IN the public mind Il
sny time, 70 any dsnger its becoming epidemic IN
THIS city and ths; We people should be content that