The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-22
Total from causes besides cholera. 4 $50
NUMBER OF DEATHS IN uACH WARD DURING TEE

The above statistics show that the cholera has
been at no time, even at its highest, disease
to be feared by any who live with proper re-
gard for to the laws that govern health. At the
clo.e Of the month in May last the first case
was reported, and it went on increasing slowly
till the 5ih Of August, when it took turn the
other way, and nowis going down as rapidly as
it went up in numbers. From other causes the
total number Of deaths have been the usual
ratio Of our population.
We come to the second table, which gives
US the deaths in each ward. Four wards,
it viii be seen, have hospitals, which make
their number comparatively large. From the
other wards it is shown what districts are in
fected, and we find that to those in which
foreigners congregate, living in filth and dirt,
the disease has been confined. In the First ward
there is a large population Of emigrants,
and there tho deaths have been seventy. one
In the Second and Third, directly adjoining
but containing Clearly, respectable native pc
puiation, the numbers are only thirteen and
eight In the Eleventh ward there is again a
large foreign population, and the deaths are
seventy .oDe; but in the Tenth and fifteenth,
only third Of that number Of deaths, although
theae wards contain population of about q, 600
each. This difference arises from the social
condition Of the inhabitants Of the respective
wards. In the one they live crowded together
like pigs in pen, and about as filthy, inviting
any disease as we'll as cholera, and in the other
they live respectfully and clearly, and suffer
from the cholera mortality Of twenty-five
twenty foreigners and five natives) to rs, 900
population, in thirteen weeks time. The death
Of one in thousand in about three months, or
a mortality Of four to thousand in year |.
Verify, the cholera is much to be feared.
In the next table we have the nativity, and
we find again that only about one-sixth of all
the deaths are native-born citizens. The other
five-sixtbs are Of foreign birth, landing here in
most cases with disease contracted on ship
board, and liable to drop off at any moment.
1t must be remembered that there is an
emigration to this port Of about 100000 per
anbum. These poor emigrants arrive here in
most cases in q starving, ragged, filthy condi-
ton. Add to this annual emigration several
hundred thousands of residents Of foreign birth.
"iu VIC haNS sum tOttl WHICH mas mortality
Of | $3.50 in thirteen weeks.
From the above tables, then, we learn that
the cholera-vhat little there is Of its con-
fined almost entirely to the filthy, the reckless
and the previously diseased. with .almorality
hardly worth recording among the native Do
pnlation or among those who live with proper
regard to decency. In the last three months
POI have died in this city, Of an American DO
pulation Of something over 100000, being a
ratio of one to 100 souls But what most
particularly interests the class for which we
write are the deaths among visitcrs to the city
in our hotels. Upon strict inquiry we have
heard OF only one case of cholera in them
among our transient population.
This Is the summing up of what our Phila-
delphia friends call Fearful ravages" Having
given the facts in the case, we leave ii to the
public whether it il dangerous to visit New
York at present, or whether it is best to obtain
their fall stock from Philadelphia, and by her
merchants be mulcted Of the profits Of the
second seller.