New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-18
CHOLERA AND THE HEALTH POLICE or
NEW YORK.


During tie last sumner and autum the Atlantic has been
the scene Of ravago the most fearful both OF cholera and
yellow fever While this the CITY Of New York the port Of
entry for the majority of the ships upon whom these dreia
dienses have preveiled-npe for their fruon a. it con
fesedIy has tremendously escaped visitation from .hem
II &C except very few isolated Laiery the severity
of lie cholera had seemed to have materially decreased il
not entirely died cut but the arrival Of the packet ship Con
tren, On Saturday last that he plague has only
sumberod and again awakened TO attack each vulnerable
point with edoubtd vgOr The packet ship Continent len
yerpool with 4s2 passengers and during voyage Of "a
DAYS hes left the bodies Of 50 victims 70 mark her
across the ocean On her arrival fifteen others IA
Len to The Hospital, stu suffering from cholera
DurI the past sumner 100 cases Of yeOw fever
and nearly or cutie of cholera have been received
G; the Quarantine HOSP ha On the arrival Of tho first
cholera ship the Health Officer DR. Richard Lewis Morris
adopted the usual of compelling all vessels coming
to the port upon whom 70 deahs have occurred during the
voyaee or whom had occurred shorty before a
val TO stop Quarantine and land all Geir passengers
III. vesels then underwent thorough process OF purca
ton before they were allowed proceed 10 the City The
rtseneers so landed inspected aud necessary the
sick were sCnt the Hospital the remarder were then
sent into buildings provided for each where the
means Of puifca alton were furnished them after which
ler dry clothes were washed and aired and what not
worth washing burnt They here Kept for 4s hours in
good warm rooms, and fod with Wholesome food after
Which if appeared they were sent up to the
City hers TheeSpepse ofih course has been betrayed
by the Commissioner of Emigration in all eases where the
parties were Unable 20 do But it yet disputed
question as to the Liability of the owners of the ships
1hs coune of procedure objected to several occa
Sons and the Health Commissioners were appealed TO
but hat authority considered the e1go of the de-
lint Il
Or Morris to such means he deemed necessary
to tie saety of the City This has been pursued
by Dr. Morris Up the present time and TO him and to
Lis timely neasrros alone DO the Cities Of New York,
Brooklyn WDiamsburgh and Jersey City, il not the whole
State owe their immunity from pestlence and its attendant
horror
Te make the fact plain, many commanders Of ships
are totally reckless OF the quences to the City, they
only get their ships alongside the docks with the least
delay possible We have known every conceivable arce
resouted eder hide the presence of sickness and
thereby prevent the detention OF the ship at Quarantine
We have seen instances where ships freight with em
grants almost to Neutrality-suspicious. whose skins had
scarcely known ke contamination OF soap and water since
the commencement of the voyage, and whose abode for
Eve or six weeks previous their arrival at the port had
been not one whit cleaner than badly kept hog pen have
on SIGHTING Sandy Hook been brushed aud furnished up
old beds thrown overheard best clothes put the sick
n ua,ed with brandy and terrified with horrible tales Of
tie hospital in order that they may pass the doctor
So sys macsy 10 this course pursued that the keenest
ve srce necessary the health officers to ds
cover the presence of sickness infection That the decet
has been more than once successful may be learned from
the Report of the Commissioners OF Emigration, in which
they state that disease which fastened itself on the egant
on ship board he's broken out upon him after few days
oorrn in the City and neoessaed his conveyance to the
hospital Quarantine This reckless course was being pur
.ued day after day. and the health of the City eopardzed
BY en- Influx of 1900 emgrants per day, until DR.
Morris adopted the course have already alluded to. Its
results are manifest IN the immunity which the citizens Of
New York have enjoyed.
Much has doubtless been done to perfect the police ar
raneemenis for tie health OF the City but notwithstanding
more is required The quarantine arrangements are under
the control Of three general heads consequently Juds
nen,s conflicts ard the action Of one sometimes neutral
lied by that Of the other The Health Officer has ursdic-
ton ever the water bOsrds ships judges Of their fitness To
proceed to the City and II Necessary deains them until
such tine oontsgion may be dsspated Hit be requisite
be cen also send the passengers ashore Here bis Jursdc
ton ends The Resdn ut Physician takes charge OF them
after and may if he thinks proper send them oil to
the City at ence for bis control extends the entire po
Ece of tie establishment Then come the Commissioner
of Emigration whose powers and authorities extend
L
rated to US during Q visit to the institutions on
Saturday lat. The ship Continent WA lying oppo
ste and tie owners had been unable 10 Obtain
steamboat until after O'Clock DR. Vsche, the Residea
Physician having established certain rules and regulations
prohibiting the landing Of passengers after NJ there
wes 10 alternative but that over $50 human beings
whom tie cholera s;i raging should remain on board
the ship for forty eight hours longer subject TO the incm
ercy of tie weather and the dscemfors Of crowded
steersge, because O'Clock wa the time at which the
people employed in the Hospital finished their days work
Ii the emgrents landed a. O'Clock they could moi
be cened and housed before l. The diseomfos and prob
ably to fatal eject of forty eight hours longer soor
upon the ship by these egrani secondary
ten compared with the loss of hosr each by half
dszen wtllfed and weiclothed men. However DESTROYS
the Health ofeer may be perform bis duty, when b,
has contend against such opposition hs good intentions
cannot fal to be negatived.
Considering Ne rapid endogeRous growth Of the Csy
the Quarantine viii be much for heshfl
safety The present station undoubtedly cannot be bet
tered boarding station but the locality is becoming to-
thcky populated for Hospital buildisgs. The prescn
prperty s said TO be worth over 100000. This SUI
vOsd suce to erect eomnOdous Fever and ChOerl
HosFals upon CoIey Island, and provide premises sps
eious enough Cor ell emergencies and all new plfens
might be SSrve. ID hskss every evening BY steamboat
Gev hunt has given the Gsresse College, situated al
Lr,' eloo 70 be applied 70 tic Library Falt The Coz