The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-21
THE CnoLEaA.
General charaot,elr q he DIse,also..-Tl

Precautions to be Taken.
1t is y mistake to suppose that the
cholera Is disease difficult to manage
or peculiarly dangerous. n
II is especially the sickness of the
poor and the filthy, The more comfort
able classes are comparatively little
affected by it. Bad sanitary Confiftio
and nuisances which are Obvious. in
t1uence 1t Immediately. So clearly is
this the fact, that many persons look
upon 1t as a direct Providentinl punish
ment for want of cleanliness and care
iessnesS OF sanitary provisions. Itrules
1 most where other diseases which science
can prevent are accustomed to rage so
that the fever nests and the homes OF
diptherta and typhoid and scarlet fever
are the tayorites of the choleril. Scien-
titic writers tell us that certain courts
IN EnGlish cities, where all the great
| peStilences have made fearful havoc.
are still the chosen seats Of this modern
epidemic. Tho first cases in this city in
1919, were in Orange and Baxter streets,
near the Five Points, in infamous dens
OF hlthi 1t raged especially first in the
Sixth and Fourth Wards. When il
appears during this year or next, it will
seek out the same districts, "Rotten
ROW" IN laurenS street, was centre
OF the pest1lence them it will, undoubt-
edly, continue to be so now, The dis
tricts near the pig-styes, and the bone
boilers and the exposed offal of slaugh-
ter-houses, suffered most in the former
attacks they will again. Open privies,
cess-po0ls, heaps of garbage, crowds OF
inmates in dirty rooms, are what espe-
cially stimulated the disease before;
they will still operate. 1t will be re-
membered by some of our citizens that
butcher, whose daughters were in the
habit of dressing the entrals of swine at
night, though living in Seventh avenue,
lence, was attacked with all his family.
In another case, a house was invad-
ded inaquarter where there had been no
cases, and the stimulating cause was
discovered in aspig-stye in the cellar. AS
an instance of what sanitary provisions
can do, the fact should not be forgotten
already mentioned in these columns, that
though therewere in 1s49, 10000 deaths in
London from cholera, not death oc-
CURED in any model lOdging-house.
Certain towns in England were al
most shielded from this dreaded enemy
by preparing their sanitary defenses in
| time. Worcester, on the Severn. entirely
escaped it. In this country it is record
ed that in Philadelphia the most active
measures were taken to guard the pub
lie health in the epidemic of 1S4O; 2 .97O
privies were cleaned !; $40 houses clean
ed by the authorities; 1sS ponds drain
ed; 10 rag and bone shops closed, and,
I
ease removed. The consequence was
that the number of deathslin that city
/ was only T47, while in. New York they
amounted TO 5,07l In Boston, good
health arrangementsk kept the pestilence
in the lowest and dirtiest streets, and
reduced the deaths to some 633. In
| baltimore very few deaths occurred
The deaths in this city would have
amounted to much greater number
but for the earnest efforts of the author
ties, even atthe last moment, to cleanse
the streets and lanes and remove nui-
sances, n rs " gii-r
The great desideratum for the treat
ment of the disease is to meet it early,
The danger with the promonitory symp-
| toms-the painless diarrhea-iSlth that no
body thinks anything of It, The pooI
are especially negligent of this warn.
ing. One symptom of the disease is the
indiHerence it inspires. It is related
that in the medical house-to-house Visi-
tations in Glasgow, before the cholera,
out of $1,000 cases visited and treated
/ only hfty-two died; so important is The
early treatment. The ratio of deaths
/ to cases increases almost geometFically
as time is suffered to elapSe between the
first symptom and medical treatment
/ And nom reports of the General Board
of Health: of London, it appears that
out of 10000 cases treated early, OF
which 5000 We're developed cholera
only go went on to the state of col,
lapse: This is q fact which justifies the
excellent plan already suggested by the
] Hygienic Council-the house e-Visitatior
and treatment. The great matter with
the poor Is to provide remedies quickly,
and to lead them to guard inmediateiy
against the diarrhea. For other persons
the medical advice is, as soon as this
torewarning symptom is perceived that
they should go directly home, with as
little effort as may be, and at once place
themselves in a reclining posture
Keeping the body warm, and check the
dtarrhea with an ordinary opiate OF
4 other medicine, till their medical adYis-
er can be summoned. AT this stage Of
the disease there is but little danger
The number Of deaths to cases treated
at this period are wonderfully small.
And in general, twill be found thai
| people who live In good houses, have
nourtshing diet, are well clad, and moi
4 tmmoderate in their way of living, arr
very little exposed to cholera. o moo