New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-11
THE CHOLERA IN NEyy-YORK.

We seldom take the trouble to contradict the mali
cious reports in regard to the health of this City
which interested parties in other places-especialy
in Philadelphia and Baltmore-periodicaly set aAoat
Twice every year, about the time that southern and
western merchants begin to think Of coming east and
north to purchase goods, the presses in the cities
above named commence the publication of exaggera.
ted and false statements to the prevalence of dis
ease and death in New-iork. Sometimes the small
pox; then magn dysentery; or else harmless
influenza is magnifed into fearful epidemic grippe,
prostrating lie thousands But if so happens that
there have been few deaths from cholera at the
Quarantine, in the great Emiprant Hospitals on
Wards Island friends abroad reerate and dlate
every fact until the tre axiom is reversed and the
mouse has brought forth mountain.
1t is not TO be expected that the epidemic of the
present should form any exception to this rule
and accordingly lever there 20 many false aud
exaggerated stories put in circulation from rival
mercal towns touching The ravages Of disease at New
York. In these circumstances with view to show
those who strangers to the facts just how little
foundation in truth they have, we will make plain
statement of the progress and LOCALITY Of cholera in
New York, and Of the classes suffering from it,.
deaths. of whom were born in the United States
and II were foreigners. In June the deaths mum
beTed 1913, If whom SS natives and i55 foreign
In the five weeks since that time, there have
been 972 deaths, Of which 2l0 were natives and 762
foreigsers-makiDg, in a period of three months,
| lis deaths. $50 being natives and 9.S aliens. OF
the natives we find about twothrds, or loo, ,les,
and IS females. OF the l66 males we find about one
half say 80 only, who adult. OF this 90 about 80
were regular inmates of the Alias House. Luuatic
Asy um and prisons, aud c0lored men-leaying the
absolute mortality from cholera of white male adult
Amcricans-ttat class 10 which these frightened
merchants beloDg-the number of SIXTY cases in a
period OF hundred days in city OF seven hundred
thousand inhabitants Aud of these sixty, about two
thirds natives, or long residents OF the City.
So much for the sweeping mortality among stran,
gers. And further, ii is matter of fact that more
than half Of these sixty of broken constitution
generally Of incorporate habits, men who mad long
ago assigned their lease Of life to the rumseler, and
some Of whom brought on the disease of which they
died by reckless course of long continued dssipa
ton, drinking almost hourly for the purpose Of keep
"ing off the cholera" As TO the ravages Of cholera
in public houses the best that can be given il
the simple fact that but one death is recorded
curing in leading hotel. Our best houses are over
fowing with dodgers, and neither sickness nor feal
thereof isfet.
It's unnecessary TO speas particularly of the for
eigntrs who have become victims to cholera in thi.
City, and at the Wards Island Hospitals They ar,
mainly of the most INDECENT class of those Just ar
rived whose strength has been worn out on the sea
and who are especially predsposed to any contagious
disease Of the localities most infested by choler,
IN the City,we may name the Five Points, the low
grounds near the East River tie emigrant boarding
houses In the First Ward, the overcrowded tene
menis in the Seventeenth Ward, and the filthy shan
ties far up the island. We have but two Choler,
Hospitals open in the Cty-one in FrankIin-st. ant
one in Mott-st The last report of the first one show
only 81 patients remaining; Of the other only II
making but a. now under Hospital treatment in tn,
City In the various Institutions under charge Of tn,
AIN, Bo1ss Governors, .hsre we're yesterday onl,