Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-02
The Cholera
[From the London Globe, October 49,
THE DIsrAsE AT EPPING.

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H DIsLAsE AT EPPING.
Great alarm has been created at Epping
and in the neighborhood, IN consequence
of Asiatic cholera having made its ap-
pearanee there in a very virulent form.
Twelve cases have occurred, out of which
five died, but one of the five did not die
from cholera, but from other causes per-
fectly natural. A sanitary inspectorfrom
the Privy Council has been down to the
neighborhood, and has been greatly as
sisted in his investigation by DR.. Clegg
and other medical gentlemen in the dis
trict. 1t appears that q farmer residing at
Thoydon, had been down to Weymouth TO-
change of air, and while there had attack
of Asiatic cholera, from which hegot bet
ter and returned home on Sunday, the oath
of September. On the following Tuesday
his wife was taken i'll with the cholera and
confined to her bed. On the fol owing
Saturday, one of the little girls was at
tackled with the disease and died in about
eight hours. On the same night, a boy
who slept in an clubhouse on the prem
ises was similarly attacked, but recovered.
On Monday night, DR.. McNab, senior,
one of the physicians who attended on the
patients, was attacked with the complaint,
and in a few hours succumbed to its viru-
lence. On Tuesday following, another
daughter of the farmers was attacked,
but she is now recovering. On Wednes-
day the housemaid was attacked, but re-
covered. On Friday the farmer himself
was again taken i'll, and so sever was the
attack that he died in about ten hours.
On the same night a laborer on the farm
was taken i'll, and died on the following
Saturday. He was removed to his cottage
close into Epping, previous to his death,
and Mrs. SaVille, who laid him out, was
subsequently attacked with cholera, and
died yesterday. The lady of the house
got over the attack upon her, but when she
found her husband was dead, she refused
to take food or anything that was neces-
sary to sustain her in her then debilitated
state. The,case could not be said to be a
death from Asiatic cholera. The mother
of this lady was severely attacked, and,
although she is eighty-seyen years of age,
is still battling against the malady. The
whole of these cases seem to nave origin
ated in n house, and to have spread a
little in the neighborhood, but from the
ju%dicious arrangements that have been
made by the magistrates of the district, at
the suggestion of the medical gentlemen
whr have been concerned in these cases, it
is hoped that the disease is on the wane, no
new ease having occurred since Sunday
last.
THE DISEASE IN PARIS.
paris (0ct. 10y Correspondence London Herald.
Very great complaints are made on ev-
cry side of the extremely silly conduct of
the authorities in continuing to keep us in
the dark as to the progress of the cholera.
That it does prevail in Paris is obvious,
and the authorities serve no good purpose
by choosing to ignore its existence. For
instance, there were fifty cases on Tuesday
at the Hotel Dieu, and yesterday twenty
five. There must have been some at the
other hospitals, too, but 1 have no figures,
and, therefore, cannot speak positively.
The Administration de Assistance Pub
lique," which superintend the hospitals,
have daily returns of the number of new
cases and of the mortality. There is no
panic as yet, but there is sure to be one if
the returns continue to be kept back. The
TOulon and Marseilles papers keep US
daily al coUrant of the progress of the
disease. Why should the Paris press be
denied that privilege2 If any good could
possibly come out of it one might under
stand this reticence. But the reverse is
the case. People give it u that no re-
turns are published because the authori-
ties are afraid to make them known, and
the most absurd stories are consequently
circulated.
Paris October 49, Correspondence London Daily
News.l
There are conflicting reports about the
cholera. A letter from a medical man in
the Pays asserts that there have not been
altogether more than $40 cases and 100
deaths. But the medical publication, the
Gazette des Hopitamr, states that there
been between 500 and 600 cases, and
at this moment there are from ITO to
l2O cases in the two hospitals, Beaujon
and Lariboisiere. 1t is agreed on all
hands, however, that the virulence of the
eases is gradually diminishing