The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-05-28
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seventeen years ago, when me ehoieia visited TINS
continent the population Of New York was decl-
mated her streets were emptied the noise and hustle
If business were sienced. her hosptals were crowd
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stricken with terror at the desolation which Mas
spreading around tneh,, ana asains. wnicm henner
arr nor virtue nor wealth. eoua con'ena. Inc mem
DRY o. thoso Gays seems 70 nave passed. away.
WIN solemn ,ieaa thls terrible scouIage mas oeen
advaneins, monln py ,monin, week py week, ana
gay oy cay rom lls pirln Pisee ana nome ~ ,le
east across ihe continent Of Europe J. mas wintered
N 'ha warm eliIae OF OUT o.ales anu WIN
Tue havance OF spring asoilowed the great western
10 tneir leaving ne ia,a record OF IT'S
Visit IN every Cemetery aho gruye yaiu, rom one enc
OF our country 70 the oihe-i and nnally has com
msneed us work OF aesolalion 10 our very mist
WIN ~ this umeiy Wain PHI. WIN pefec. Know
eoee Of inc conse9nences when allena tne pIevn
ence OF an epiasniic ~ Ipis popuious no alarm
seems 70 oe isi' no preparations 70 encounter are
contemplated ana i,s Iavaees are awaited WIN up
psrshliy AZ much inaiieIepee az u W. Mere nation
OF uTksdeiying aia'e, winch we couia heiher aSeit
nor postpone, .,a
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Guy, Is 10 mnlipy tne Necessary lor n9spisl ROOM
meulcai htehuancs nursery anu hosptai sIotes Ladl
fall, when the cholera appeared a. the Quarantine,
and some months previous, wnen me snip lever
rageu NJ thnt place anu 10 tis Guy Tue WANT 81 nos
pital accommodations was ieit most seriously and
me morany OF thosc diseases was admitted 10 nave
been Rreaty increased ~ conseS9uence we are
correctly informed, me only aaoiuon wnch ras peen
maze ms spIine 70 lhe previous nosPithl
daiions OF the city 10 an Old uhoccupel building IN
inc hVe points MOI iaige enough 70 receive me nv
elagc eases .ht wouiu IeIul.e i.,ti W SINGS aay'
wnen me epidemic was larry eslaopshea mere.
NO steps nave Deem taken 10 PROVIDE attendance ior
me poor 10 separate them rom me htho-genehc IN
huences by winch many OF mem are surrounded, TO
explore mo city ana detect 'he morbid agencies
wmcn lie concerned among us ana nave them re
moved; ana YET nothing lees man the most active
exertons Of TINS KIND can prevent the pestlence rag
Ing ms summer win scarcely iess des'rnctiveness
IMAM m 1889 Inc city Is IN conaition 70 welcome
1t II Is occupied by large population VINO know
nothing Of the periis that tler haolts ana condition
Surround tnem WIN or Of tue changes winch nlone
can ward mem on;
Something should be done nj once oy our city au-
thorlues, OF Oy tue Hltuicui proeSlon, 70 peHet q
more Just appreciation OF me exlgencies oil our
situation. what precisely should be DONE II does
not become us TO ADVISE. we only Know, certainly,
mat ndifierence and slpneness, on the part OF our
municipal authorities, hre criminal In such crisis
We have recently had our attention directed TO a
report on the cholera IN France, In 1889, prepared
and published BY order OF the French Government,
in which we find some suggestions by which, we
think every city government IN inc United States,
at this time, may prohtr
When the alarm OF cholera was given In Paris In
1881 the Preiect OF Police, Jointly with the project
Of the department, made decree creating at mo
same time Central Board OF Salubrlty, composed
| OF forty-threo members, and twelve Ward Commit
tees, charged with the duty Of corresponding with
the Board and OF communicating with other COM
of the city, and of tho rural wards of the depart
ment. Several physicians chemists apothecaries
Of established reputation, together with res
pectable citizens presented by the Aldermen, were
designated to fill those committees and in order that
they might not be in need of useful necessary in
formation, they were to be attended by city inspec-
tors and commissaries Of police.
'rhe District Committee, says the report, wero
more especially instructed TO visit private dwellings
to ascertain the condition Of sinks ofguers Of
pools ciserns &C.; inspect the institutions, the
school houses, the wei nurse establishments, the
houses Of weaving and Of health establishments for
keeping horses dogs, hogs rabbits poultry pigeons
Sc. They were also TO nav attention 10 The lodging
houses the tanneres the baths the gut workers. the
rag gatherers, lastly 10 the shops of all kinds liable
to become nusanCes by bad management, or the
stencil they create.
The ward committees intermediate between the
Board and the district committees, had the duties
assigned them OF receiving the reports of The latter
and examining thcm 10 verify THAR eynctnees when
they thought proper and to make extracts from them
to be semitic the central board
Lastly, the Central Board adding TO its own infor-
was 10 enlghten the administration, and to propose
the adoption Of new measures fneeded or tho modI
tication Of old Ones IL considered sufficient.
The Board reserved for IT, elf the inspection Of the
great public establishments Of the capital, excepting
the churches and temples Of the various religious de-
nominations because il was Of opinion that those
did not require any measures in regard 10 salubli.
ty.
As to other places of public resort auch as coffee
houses smoking houses billiard saloons the Board
thought il necessary merely to recommend Them 10
the special care Of the district committees under
which they naturally were placed
In fact, these generous citizens, new ediles cren,ed
by necessity divided amongst themselves oil the
public places situated within The limits of their re
spectiye districts and In few DAYS they had visited
the markers, the theatres the colleges, the school
houses, the boarding houses the barracks the guard
houses, the coffae-house., reading rooms bufyiog
grounds; they carefully registered all the causes
Of insaubrity which they noticed and reported them
the administration who gave the necessary orders
| to have them removed
| II would be impossible TO mention here oil the
work simultaneously accomplished In the forty eight
districts Of Paris. The bonrd will aelect however
4 ma he If IT.