New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-17

cholera.
wished 20 show that the place dangerous eys,
wears back.
NJ. Psckham though, they shoali no, 20 bail a..
year- to show that Per>ous took cholera n ths Ho-
The Cour, was disposed to allow very wiss r,o,.
To the exaInnation
Wsness continue--About seventy or seventysv,
wert m of cholera at time; IN tire sgmn,r al lsss
thor were about sixteen Or eighteen cas.. of 49,
fever IN the hospitals bu, hone among the pa.sr,.
4 bo came in with other diseases all the essss -
smoug the employees Of the hospital; they all Hvaj
clos. ,o the side; there WAS the engineer. fa1u
IN of the wash-house. includin- himself his vi. AL
two Children all Of whom except one child died; ,b-r
Wa also the son II the matron living directly sh,ys
the wssh.house. two OF three of toe washervonen
witness and the Deputy Health Ofhcer lDr. Marin,
dael the gatskeeper aud his WIFE, two onierle> TO-,
rurs.s who nursrd and laid ont the siae,r an 49,
uatron's son, and the carpenters wife sni spo,Ss
nurse who visited the gatekeeper aud his wife sbe,
. they were i'll. that was about all; the ma,rop h,5
friends outside who were in the habit Of yisita, hs,
b.l.,,- none of the others received vsts fr'n 80,
SIDE. the washerwomcn washed AZ the Goysrnr.,.
warehouse. doesn't believe any Passengers vers .,S
,d in Quarantine at that time can GIVE any u-aon
WHY except that probably none came from lBles,.d
/ y.s-els. the rntekeep.r and matTons son gen ,re
ansuiy ont in the village, particularly the latter sho
, had free pass outside; he was never about ths
hospital. but was about the grounds; there was
veIl,y fever outside that year down at the Rght.
/ hons. and near the foot of Wool road, 81 Mary.
/ avenue ss Il is called; does not reconect how
many eases but believes there were "a out OF whom
. /, died; ths " Wood road " is about mile and hsH
! frum Quaranline there were great many injected
VI ..es lat one time l5O ar To-. anchored Of the
shore; can testify If the waters OF the Narows hsA
infected clothing floating on them; The yellow fever
first broke out on Long Island and extended nun Fort
| Hamilton 10 Yellow Hook ani Was IN anos every
house: there was no cases ia Brooklyn. excep; hos,
which came from this district or from infected Sees
the disease epidemic along the Long Island shOr;
There were about $50 cases and about - ~ deaths
if he infected vessels are kept any length Of time IN
the Narrow II Is probable that either Staten Island
or Long Island shore can and will sutfer by Il; be.
I,yes the miasma of yellow fever to be heavier thAs
the atm, sphere. and sinks AZ low rs il can, keeping
clos. to the surface but witness believes il canno, be
cs rrird ashore by the wind the eases Long Island
shore were above the level o the sea- but coad not Ia
traced To bathing, or taking infected clothing from
vessels 10 tine shore: has evidence that the Marns
Hospital was infected with yellow fever except
the shore quite along the waters; yellow fever essrs
do not witness believes infect ship, meaning BY this
that II the eases break ont board then the ship is
/ infected but if is brought on board il wlnot
infect Il: it, however breaks out "a beard afer
messengers had left IL is probable that Others woai bs
infected nothing but the sick persons were brought
on board IL would not necessarily infect the vessel;
the exception made ia that nothing in the shape cf
clothing or otherwise should be brought on bosrd with
the patients considers that clothes other artices
containing the air Of infected vessel should not be
| brought board non.afected vessel; provided
I
| had not been on board Of an infected ship il would
| be perfectly safe TO sleep upon il; Is non-
contagionst rs far as yellow fever is concerned;
the mia sna from infected cargoes might be carried
far a. miasma from infected ship, If the cargo
placed near the water During the present seasoD,
most of the infected ships have been unoaied in the
middle Of the stream all along the Quarantine grounds
from three to slS hundred yards from the shore. Mono
but vessels coming from the West indies with ye.
low fever board, unlosded at the wash-house
dock. Opening the hatches of an infected vessd
would certainly allow masma to escape but not per.
fectly ! believe cargoes taken from infected ships
| are conveyed in lighters TO Newfork and Brooklyn.
l do not know where the persons having the lighters
reside.
O. Don't you know that they are not kept within
, the Quarantine WALL A. know nothing about
them, as have enough to do to attend to my own
business; this Spring the first year that cargoes
were unloaded at the wash-house dock; believe tho
cargoes Of foreign goods were taken from West in-
dian vessels to the shore previously but the vesse1
never up to discharge cargoes the shore pre
vious 10 this Summer l cannot tell where the ship
| Rather was moored when ordered down the bay BY
Mayor Temann; it was certainly not at the wash
house dock; We had one patient with yellow fever
believe from the Rather, WHO came from the city bat
We had none directly from the vessel ITSELF persons
who die of conta gOus and infectious diseases taken
out 10 be buried between and 10 o'clock p. m. thy
have never been carried out at midnight during my
| connection with the administration Of the hospital;
the night of the I'd inst. the prisoner, TO my reco-
lection did not offer me the village church for the uss
\,
the sick myself, aided by Mr.. Mathew Carol, in car
riages belonging 10 that gentleman, which were fur
nished By prisoner; l saw no intention the first
night on the part OF the Pubhc " injIre either the
| property or the patients
Direct eIamination resumed by Mr.. Peckham-There
three yellow fever patients in shany the rst
night when it was set on fire; assisted with other
parties in getting them OUT this is of the eight
shanties described by DIR. Bssel the Of per-
sons taking the yellow fever the grounds in 1876
was not account of any defect Of the Quarantine
grounds; am not prepared To definitely state ths
cause il not in the atmosphere-if 10 all the
people wonld have taken 1t, whereas il only IN
small district think the atmosphere siDeapsbIs
of carrying IL guided by facts would say there was
no danger Of the spread of yellow fever by unloading
az the WashhOuse docks; there might be danger ~
those unloading and TO the engineer and cook who hva
near those loading would Of course be a. likely To
be- afflicted in the same way in unloading in the mdde
Of the ocean; the defect in the premises as regards
cholera patients, is rot giving sufficient accOmmOda.
tion for the reception Of afflicted cargoes, and
not giving sufficient room for the isolation of
| cholera patients from the other inmates Of the
| tine regulations what does for yellow fever
will not do for smallpox, and Of other diseases To
isolate cholera patients would require buildings st
least from five to six hundred yards away from tho
other patients, and possible they should be bnit
rocky ground and not auvial SOIL for the history of
cholera shows that rocky grounds alone would guard
against the spread of the dsease regard the cholera
as indirectly contagious although the atmosphere bo
healthy, l believe cholera patient sufficient to
infect the whole Hospitals If one cholera patient be
taken to New-fork it il possible, under favorable
circumstances, 10 communicate the disease to tho
whole city have this belief on the fact that when
was brought To the Hospital IL was sure Tn
seze conyalescent patients Of other diseases, com
mencing at the nearest buildings aud going through
the entire Hospital II the buildings constructed
piers over the water, il is possible that cholera
could be arrested there, and not get on the hill
would recommend them To be thus erected; tho
! grounds are no, sufficient the institution has
/ been properly conducted as Quarantine ground; for
complete Quarantine, large storebouses reqsned
Tor the reception Of goods from infected vesses, "