New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-20
Later from Jamaica.

AWFUL RAvAGEs OF THE CHOLERA.
At the latest dates from this place the chole
ra continued it's rayages on the plantations, and
the ne newspapers are filed with the details,
At Mount Diablo there had been sixty-eight
deaths
At sturgetown Parish of st. Amy there had
been thirty deaths.
At Salem there had been twenty deaths.
At Marteague the public schools had been
closed in consequence Of the epidemic, and all
the children sent home to their parents. The
Trelawny says:
We are informed that on Thursday last a
Master Steers was first attacked with the dis
ease, which resulted fatally; and on the Friday
or Saturday, Mrs. Myers, the wife of the Head
Master, the Rev. Mr.. Myers, fell a victim to the
disease, while third person, Mrs. Steers, was
taken off suddenly on Sunday, by the same NAL
ady. Indeed, it is most painful to witness the
downhearted appearance Of all classes Of per-
sons throughout those districts where cholera
prevails--old and young, weak or strong, rich
or poor, all-all alike moved down by the fell
destroyer.
At place called Finger Post, in st. AIMS
Parish thirty-two persons had been attacked,
Of whom thirteen had died.
In the district of Manchionial there were ten
deaths within few hours The report from
that district affords most deplorable picture of
the state Of things there 1t says:
"Not solitary case has recovered, although
they were treated according to the circular Of
the Board Of Health. There have been some
ten or fourteen cases, all of which terminated
fatally, some within q few hours. Weare with
out q medical man, and in this awful state God
only knows what will become of us. No pro-
vision for the poor, no collins, no one to superin
tend the burial of the dead, no grave diggers,
thus bodies have been compelled to remain above
ground"
The death Of Mr.. William NJ Hart, second
son of the late Hon. Daniel Hart, at Shade Es-
tate, Parish Of st. Ann, is also recorded,
In the lower part of ST. AIMS Parish the
journal thinks the deaths have been quite equal
in number to those which occurred on its last
| visitation. 1t has also appeared in St. Thomas
| in the East, where it has been fatal to several
| persons in the neighborhood of Morant Bay.
Rev. David Kerr, minister Of the Wesleyan
Missionary Society, was among the victims at
ST. Ann Mr.. Kerr was one Of the oldest Wes-
| leyan Missionaries in Jamaica Island.
| The disease seems to battle and set at naught
| all the wisdom and experience of the medical
faculty. Remedies that were effcacious in for
mer cases are represented as impotent now.
| Among the remedies which have been Success
fully tried, however, in Kingston, is sea water
1t has been exhibited in frequently repeated
| doses of ounces to patients in advanced state
of cholera, with remarkable effect.
| One of the physicians in st. AIMS recommends
mustard emetic, followed by warm salt and
water, then ten or fifteen grains of calomel, with
one grain of opium, giving the patient abund-
| ance of ginger or mint tea, and finally dose Of
| castor oil. Another recommends capsicum,
opium, camphor, and peppermint.
| THE CHOLERA AT BARBADOS
We have already briefly stated the fact that
the Asiatic cholera was alarmingly prevalent
at the Island of Barbados; the deaths amount
ing, we are told, to upwards of one hundred a
day. We are now in receipt of intelligence
fully confirming the melancholy tidiugs and
proving further that the mortality has been on
the increase, till the number of deaths by that
fell disease in the new {city) burial ground OF
Bridgetown amounted in one day to the fright
full number of 244 human beings! The total
number of deaths in the city had reached, to
the 18th, to 2107. In the garrison Of St, Anne
there had been GA deaths, viz; "A military Ia.
borers, of the LIST and of the I'd West India
Regiments, 8 Of the 38th and l of the 81 tn Reg
iments, and 2 of the Royal Artillery.
In the suburbs of Bridgetown there had been
| IA deaths.
Just beyond Black Rock, in little village
called Panes Bay, there had been So deaths
there were deaths in other parts of the parish
making in all IS for the whole parish.
In St. Joseph's the only district attacked il
that of Balesheba and Crab Hole, where tbs
| disease had seized with great violence upon the
class of poor whites, many of whom reside il
the vicinity. There had been los cases up II
the morning of the 18th at 8 o'clock, and 6t
deaths, of which "a were whites.
In ST. Andrews, in the neighborhood of the
parish church, Is deaths were reported.
In ST. Philips some cases have occurred a
the Chapel Estate, but there was no accurat
report of the number of deaths.
Abel Clinkett, Esq, for thirty-two years tn
! proprietor and sole editor of the Barbadian, ha
lied of the disease. Mr.. Drinan, the editor o
the Globe, was barely convalescent. The sub
editor of the Liberal was down with the disease
A half sheet only of the Liberal was issued OF
the 14th. In alluding to the disease and tn
circumstance of the reduced size of his paper
: the editor says:
"Under these circumstances we know no
how soon we may be obliged to suspend gu
issue altogether. There is but single hand il
our office besides the foreman"
7 Of the $50 prisoners confined in the jail 1
s survived, whence the Governor very humanel
, | ordered their release
Among the deaths there have been 10 whit
persons, the remainder colored