The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-03

SEPTEMBER 3, 1854.
The General Health.
The cholera has disappeared from OSdensb,rt rt
N. ano the labors OF tie Board Of Heath ar
nominally closed.
/ THk CHOLERA AT FALL RIVER, MASS.
FI1m ine FaH Rsrer Ne,cs OF the 3lst., we TAX,
the foills,ng defsed account of the alarming mala
dy which is prevailing ip that city. We learn tina
since the publication OF the subjoined account tn;
disease Continues unabaed and that several deaths
| h'd occursed OF Wednesday night and Thursday
| moi .niog:-
| On Thursday n,ornirg last, jeremiah Holland, an
| IrjshmAc wss alta keo With cholera, or what va:
| termed cholera, aud died about noon. The body
contrary to the ice Of the Rev. Mr.. Murphy the
Catholic priest, was Kept until Friday. On Thurs
day evening the frieVGs OF the deceased had a
wake according to The custcm of his country
mer, and being well supplied with liquor, they con-
tinued their "wske" through the 2ight. On Satur-
DAY, number OF those who atten led the "wake"
were attacked with cholera and dieG in few h0nrs.
UP 10 o'clock Saturday mighty some fifteen had
die d, not one OF whom survived "a hoIS after the
attack. During Sunday night some six or seven
others dice, ana up to the present writing (Wed-
.esdsy afternoon, o'clock, tue ~hole number Of
deaths have amounted to about thirtysix. OF this
number very large proportion we're present either
at the wake or funeral Of Holland. Below we ap.
petd the naoes CT the victims, far eItaned
Peter Riley, Spritg street
corpse of Hollsrd
Eugene Sullivan, Tiysrtor.
Dal iel Sullivan, /"
Wife OF Dapl. sullivan, %
Tie authorities, en- repairing to the house Of
Daniel Snvao, found the corpse Of his wife on the
bed besids tee o.iDg man. She had died ar hour
or two previous.
Mi.bsel Newman, Troy street.
Dennis Sullivan, Central street.
Bepjamn MahoIey, spring street.
Corr elius Holland, Washington street
Margaret Kelly, Stone lane.
James Moran, Hospital.
Moran was arrested on Saturday night for stealing
pig iron, and placed in the lock up, under the
market During the uight he was attacked with the
cholera, and vas remove to the Hospital where he
died on Sunday afternoon.
James Redfern (Euglish), Pleasant street.
Mr.. r. We larn, wss recovering from bowel
followed at hight by plentiful supply Of lobster.
Next day he was corpse.
A o,ild Of John Costigsn, Stone lane, aged four
years.
Hannah Quigley, child, Town avenue, FIVE years.
Jot n Sullivan Inch street.
Catba,iDe Sullivan, Central street. in same house
with j. Hoslabd.
The motner OF 0atharine Sullivan, DO.
A child Of J. Holland, do.
Jeremiah Harrington, Shcye's block
John kilbr1de, Grani'e street.
TskeD on Snncay night, about IL o'clock, and iied
rext moroing, about s.
Mrs. Joanna Harrington formerly Kelly.
Married on Saturday night-friecds kept up
Qualification" all night retired about Sunday
morning. and dled about 10 o'clock Sunday night
John Hsrringtcp, Stoue lane.
jeremiah Shpy and his two children, Stone lane.
A Mr. Shay, relative Of Jerernish, stone lane.
John p. Sn ivan, Eighth street.
NcrtY McCMty, Stol e iaue
wife OF Monty McCarty.
Tin othy Sullivan, boy, Inca street
John Cos.igap, Stone lane.
Robert Howard Town avenue.
Jo'epA Gosiirg, Bedford street, boy fourteen
years OF age.
This ls6 wss at work 10 the Pocasset mill on
Tuesday afseruoon--rent homD at five o'clock, an
we'll, ana esd about one o'clock yesterday. The
physicians pronounced his case one Of cholera.
Elizabeth SnlvaD, Ssone lane.
A chic named Kelly, Stone lane.
Mrs. Sullivan, between Seventh and Eighth
streets.
The above let comprlses all the chclera cases,
With, terosps, q or two exec ptons, which have
teImsrssej fa.sAy. Very few OF these who have
besn attacked bssye recovered.
roe disease, IT. Is believe T. has socut subsid
cd, bSvipg bes0 confued manly to that class
among wtom /: originated.
This calamity res be traced principally to the
Of i,tos icatDg liquor, ard to the poisonous
ture cf The miserable stuff Used as such. Vcry
msoy Of those VINO fell victims tad beeu iadugng
freely 10 'he use Of liquor. We are informed on the
best authority shst of the children even, had
this vie compound administered to them by their
parents vAo ttus expecTec TO WARD oil the disease
Msuy f be victims, TOO, as soon as attacked, were
absn9io1 edby their relatives soaie of whom seemed
only ARK Gus to possess themselves of whatever
money, cethiDg. &c. the poor unfortunates pos
sessed. Little CT no regard was pGid TO the rems
dies piesc;tsd by the physician ., aud May of the
petif hts, both sdults and children undoubtedly per-
ishs from want of proper care and atte atcn.
Befween the goth ana 26th OF August, forty-two
dsatss occrprtd in Charleston, s, c., twenty Of
which were ftom yellow ftver.
There weEs e,even inscfments IN Savannah on the
h which
fever.
The Bostcu Trareiien OF the Is. mat. says We
understand that the ctoea still contigues its raw
ages at Fol- River, nra the great st panic exists
amoDg the lower classes. The nuc,be. Of deaths
yes,eiGa was as large as on auy previous day. but
could nut be correctly ascertsined it being ported
by some 8gh az :WantJ five or thirty. The true
Hunber. however, WAC PROBABLY much less than
That. II is stated that hnndrcis have ted to Boston
and Pioyidsrce whilo scores have retreated to the
woods ear Fell RIVER.
The ri N many cases are e1tirsy deserted az
they taken with the disease, aud this
greatly argments tbo.numbsr of deata.. la one in
staIce rlother Yves found elone iu . house with
tie corpse o. her daughter lying upca the floor.
The ren aocer OF tive sanily had fled to the NO IDS
The rain OF TO-DAY will probably drive may from
their eat retreat.
Two pbyscisus who have been in almost cou
stsGt atsadauce the sick quito i'll, but their
81 kness Is attributed TO ovsr ex.rion rather than
cholera,
DEAr4 OF AN EoIroR FROM FEAg OF CHOLERA.
[Ffor the Hamilton (Caneda West Spectator
II ft1 history cS all the cholera cases in thi. city
well sro,sn to US. that nc at.ng to the uQ-
timely sath OF .sis genssmau eur wonder would.
cease a be, net That the deaths were 80 many but
that shey were 60 few Mr.. wilson was ore OF the
editors of he is,foym Ea,,nsr, snd native CT Edn
burg. He 1s3 one of the new scaool OF phrenc-
logiSel do tors, but Unlike all the rest, who prsve
tie nuth of he aoosbegm tcN 4" little learbn;s is
oarReIous ttiog,' bs did not attempt 70 SHOW bus
via or LEA Dirg by riciculng evero thing th1 all
olStr men tctd sacrcS; on tag coctrary, Mr.. Wison
sss poses Of dsap religious feeling; be alto
had cot IL nro his 2saofbat tee p5eseut Russian war
sbd the ssttDce Ne-e tie preluoe 10 rhe railleont
um. he thought fta. on.S tn ~sckeo would engage
IN the var std Bill oLo arothsr, and wAen there
w.,e uo5e but tie just etf t,eD the reign OF peace
mild -C,u ha ErG dau - ohnlarn