The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-04-26
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The steamship Virginia, now at the New York
quarantine, with cholera on board, sailed from
Liverpool and Queenstown, with fourteen cabin and
twelve hundred and nine steerage passengers.
Referring to the appearance Of the cholera on the
steamer, the New York Times remarks: .,
There.is theory that certain conditions OF the
atmosphere are conducive to cholera, and that
there are certain zones wherein the pestilence Is
most rapidly generated It is remarked, also, that
cholera was developed on board the Virginia In
steamship England. The facts seem to be that
| together as q Thousand persons must necessarily
burthen, were attacked when they had been long
enough together to poison the atmosphere OF the
ship and that isothermal 1ines and cholera zones
had nothing to do in the case.
The Virginia cast her moorings at Liverpool on
the 4th inst. At that time no case Of cholera had
been reported in Liverpool. None, Of the passen-
gera-chiefy German immigrants-with whom
she sailed are known to have come from any dig
triot whore cholera has prevailed; nor had any Of
the number been Ill during their brief tarry Of less
y essdp and e ese Sasd
| aboard number of passengers, made out to sea
"a ship OF 2S78 tons With more than Thousand
human beings slowed away in two tiers, or be-.
No apprehension of cholera or any othera dis
ease was entertained until the chip had been q
week on the Atlantic but then on the 18th inst, q
1 steerage passenger, who had been suddenly pros
trated by what waB supposed to be o violent form
Of diarrhoes, died. There was diarrhsa, as the
ships surgeon supposed, everywhere In the steer-
age, and even after the death Of the first victim,
the surgeon was unwilling to declare 1t a case OF
cholera. But two moro sudden deaths on the 18th
and others on the 18th convinced the skeptic that
the steerage Of the steamship was really suffering
under evjyitation Of Asiatio cholera. 'rg1 -
| From the 18th until the arrival OF the Virginia
In port the 18th, the disease stalked with fear
frHl okr.I D,-1k IL,
ahip reached the quarantine on Wednesday eve.
ming nearly all the passengers except those OF the
| cabin were more OF less affected. ~
i DR.. Swinbnrne, OF the sanitary committee, who
visited the steamer after her arrival reports that
ali the sick had tlnmistakable symptoms OF Asiatic
| cholera. Their countenances were Of dusky
color, their eyes were sunken, and they were suf
fering from the purgings incident to the disease
Their hands and bodies were shrunk, and they
surgeon's assistant had been taken down, and his
i place had to be supplied. Ten or twelve other
passengers were suffering under cholera In It's in
otpient form, and those passengers who were bu
slightly affected, or who had escaped; altogether
were filed with apprehension lest they should BIZ
4 attacked II they remained on board the ship. DIR
i Swinburne ascertained that three persons hai
died while the vessol was coming up tho bay, ant
that the bodies Of these had been thrown over
withsanding tho solicitations Of the passengers
the doctor ordered that no person--not even The
pilot-shouid bepermitted to leave the ship nnde
any circumstances. TIC Government has allowet
the commissioners OF quarantine the uee Of tht
steamer Illinois for placing the we'll on board
and those afflicted with the epidemic will be re
moved TO the hospital ship -aH