The Indianapolis daily herald. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1865-1868, 1865-11-04
steamer at New York.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-The steamer Atlanta
from London. arrived last night, and was or
dered TO lower quarantine in consequence of sick
ness among her passengers. IL is rumored on
Staten Island that eight deaths occurred on board
from Cholera.
Ldter-Dr Burditti, Quarantine Surgeon, re-
ports that five deaths by cholera, out OF 6fty or
sixty cases OH board the steamer Atlanta, oc-
Cured on the passage from Brest. There are
also few cases OF small. poI on board the At
lsnta
Concerning the scOurge on board the Atlanta.
the Commercial saws: Though the disease has
been imported 10 our shores at this time we do
not think any special alarm need be felt al pres
ep, IL behooyes u to prepare Immediately for
the reception of ths scourge; not day is TO be
lost
Later accounts from the cholera teamship
Atlanta state that the passengers, $50 in num-
ber were principally 6eImans, excepting the
cabin passengers, ot whom there forty
eight The vessel hsd taken nearly all the lat
ter on board at London and part OF the steerage
passengers. but she stopped al Hayre where more
were received. The persons who brought the
cholera on board came from Havre. On the
6rst day after the Atlanta went TO sea one of
them child was attacked, and died on the fol-
lowing day; others took fck Immediately, but
the disease was confined entirely to the steerage;
none of the cabin passengers we're in the least
degree affected by il The cases OF sickness.
numbered, as is reported elsewhere, from fifty to
sixty, and there were fifteen deaths The steer
age passengers on the Atlanta did not know till
they arrived at this port that the disease that was
among them was the cholera Some or the most
intelligent among them suspected, but the ply
stefan carefully withheld positive Information
from them fearing the effect OF the excitement
Ii is thought this accounts for the fact that only
fifteen OF the 500 persons who were exposed to
the disease died of il. The passengers mani
tested very little anxiety; they did not seem to
be much alarmed at the nature of the epidemic
from which they we're suffering. The dead were
buried soon after they breathed their last; they
were notin any case kept more than an hour.
The Assistant Health Officer was conducted to
the steersge of the Atlanta between and 10
o'clock last evening: there was no light, except
that which came from a lantern, and only of
the passengers could be seen at time; they
we're not separated, but were 10 berths, as they
had been placed when taking passage. Nine or
ten were sick, but two of the number we're in
state OF convalescence, and others were in the
frst stages of cholera There we're no unusual
sights, but few were grooming.
This afternoon the Assistant Health Officer
ordered the Atlanta to the Lower Bay, where
she now is fifteen miles from this city.
The Hospital ship, known a. the Florence
Nightin gale, has been ordered to her station and
patient. will be removed to her and treated on
board.
The latest intelligence is from D.. Walker.
who has charge OF the patients on the Atlanta,
The number of deaths up to 3 O'Clock this after
noon are nineteen, the number of cases on beard
at that time vas more than twenty.