The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-30
Oliver declared President Francis Berrier de
CARED Secretary Chas Sears declared Treasurer
TO TIE EDITOR or TEE HnRALp.

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TO TIE EDITOR or TEE HnRALD.
Fon HAMILTON, Aug. %, 1855.
The fatal sickness now among vs. has prevented the
inhabitants Of yellow Hook and Fort Hamilton ffom pre-
senng to the public the causes Of the disease that they
might take action to those causes and pre-
vent for the future their being again visited with this
any other pestilence.
Those who took prominent part the subect-Judge
Rockwell, Chandler White, and R, H. Cumming
stricken with the disease and died Others in attending
70 the SICK had no time to hunt up the proper ocers
and convince them by tedious argument that sickness
was 1t their doors and in our dwellings The efforts OF
those mentioned abovecarried out well could be
by the surviving nhabtAnts-hsd the vessels removed
from Gravesepd Bay though not until sickness and death
That the sickness has been occasoned by either or the
following causes is without sh adow Of doubt-The
breathing OF the infected air, which blew for contnu-
period from the Guaranteed vessels in our dwell
ngs from the infected matter cast overheard from the
quarantined vessels washed slopg our shore and
from the nursing the sick particularly the first Injected
as the disease was not then thought Of and consequently
no proper precauton was taken TO counterfeit the nau
ence which the disease might have upon those
with anxiety and sIeepess wstchngs.
No sickness has been contracted from when
removed to other districts, although Of the soS
thus removed have died.
This sickness then, beng produced direct from the
removal Of the whole Quarantine further seward where
the wind cannot carry the pestence the tide re-
turn 10 our shores adeped with plague emitting matter
or 70 appoint proper officer who viii not through igno
rance or worse motives put vessels shore. For
Il the wind can, by long continuance blow injected mat
ter upon US and aiect in sparssy populated district
how much more fatal will be the effect II the breeze
which daily revives the wayfaers of Broadway comes
ladened with the diseAe from shipboardy Years ago
few vessels laid at Quarantine-pow q hundred would
not embrace their number extending they do from
shore 10 shore As commerce increases, so does the
danger there. We have an awful warnng-may we all
heed II, and prepare.
The Narrows is among the mos. beautiful spots about
New York. and ride along the shore to-day would pre-
sent most lively landscape, bright in cultivation aud
bossonng with howers-wh no outward sign OF the de
ISOLATION and death which reign within And the prospect
excites the stranger how much those whose homes
there, and endeared to them much by the
association OF departed oness
We call, then, upon the citizens OF New York aud Brook
~ 70 take intatory measures at once, 10 remove the
cause Of sekess from doors and for the future
We woad state here in regard to the different families
leaving, that they only did when convinced that TO
stay death, or extending the disease Many were
taken away prostrsted in nursing the sick Indeed the
whole community. from Gowanus 10 Gravesend have
proved themselves TO be attached to each other by
common lie for every case the neghborng sick have
been attended TO, even unto death
SAMUEL BONNELL, Jr.,
WILLIAM :. SEARS
PAUL A. OLIVER