The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-09-12


REPORT OF THE BOARD OF ITEALrH.-The
! following is the report of the Board of
Health on the cholera for Yesterday:
OFFICE OF BOARD OF HEALTH,)
September IL, 1866.
G o'clock y. NJ.
Sir,-We respectfully make the follow
ing statement Of cases of cholera reported
to this office in the last twenty -four hours {:
One case at No. 90S Byrd street,
(white); one case on Broad between Six
teenth and Seventeenth streets, (white) !;
one near the corner Of Seventeenth and
Broad streets, (colored) one on Cary be-
tween Ninth and Tenth, (white) one on
Tenth, near the Basin, (white); one on
Eighth between Main and Cary, (colored) !;
one near Lancasterian school, (white) :;
one on the corner of Twenty-ninth and
Grace streets, (whitc); one case at 1915
Broad street, (colored); one case on
Franklin, near Governor street, (white) !;
one case at the corner of Clay and Fourth
streets, (colored).
Only seven of these cases originated
during the last twenty-four hours.
Respectfully,
j. G. CABELL, NJ. d.,
W. III. TAYLOR, NJ. D.,
Members of Board OF Health.
To Villiam ". Crump, Esq, Chairman of
the Committee on Health.
The monthly report of the Board of
Health was made to the City Council at a
late hour on Monday night. 1t embodies
one important recommendation, namely !:
That any apothecary be authorized to fill
cholera prescriptions issued by physicians
to persons living within the city limits
who are unable to pay for the same. This
was adopted. An increase of sewerage is
also recommended. The report alludes to
the absence of DR.. Hancock, President Of
the Board, who is still detained i'll the
country by illness.
Some of our citizens are disposed to
blame the Board of Health for failing to
report all the cases which daily occur.
This Is the fault of the city physicians,
who will not report to the Board the cases
coming under their observation, and whose
neglect in this respect cannot be too Sc
vcrely criticised. The people arc anxious
to know the full extent of the disease, and
it is only through the Board of Health that
the newspapers can obtain an official state
mcnt of the sanitary condition of the city e:
and the Board is ccnsured for fault which
lies at the door of physicians generally.
A SAD CASE or MALTREATMENT Yes
tcrday morning a little girl about eleven
years of age was before his Honor, and
complained of brutal treatment from a
man named George W. Alexander and his
wife Mary Ann Alexander, with whom
she lived. The little girl had an excel
lent countcnancc, and displayed great
deal of intelligence in her answers to the
questions of his Honor. She gave her
name as Mary Josephine Frances Adams,
an orphan child of George L. Adams de-
ceased and since she was an orphan she
had been living with Alexander and his
wife.
A gentleman named Mitchell appeared
and testified that on Monday the child was
brought to him crying by negro woman,
who said that she had been beaten and
driven out of doors by the woman with
whom she was living. He took the child
into his house and found her with cuts and
bruises all over her body. He was so
much pleased with her brightness and
intelligence that he desired to adopt it.
He first consulted Policeman Alley, who
knew the child, and directed him to keep
her until Alexander should come after her,
and then to bring the child to him. He
kept the child, and on the same evening,
while she was playing with his baby on his
front porch, Alexander came up, and
upon discovering her, attempted rudely,
and with fearful oath, to seize her and
carry her off. Mr.. Mitchell intcrfercd and
sent tor the policeman, who carried the
little girl to Major Claiborne. The Mayor
postponed any legal action in the matter
until this morning, when he can have
Alexander and his wife brought before
him. The child expresses desire to live
with Mr.. Mitchell, and it is likely that ne
will be allowed to adopt her.