New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-30
Cholera incidents in Lon don.


The London Telegraph says that seventy-four
nurses are now employed in the cholera wards of
the London hospital this number being, indeed, |
correct almost to unit. There are, in addition
to these nurses, supervisors who seem never to be
at rest Said one of them, in cherry answer to
question regarding their own marvellous preser-
yation from cholera, We have no time to catch it,
and we give it no time to catch us" One of the
happiest circumstances noticeable by stranger
in visiting this or any OF the large hospitals OF the
metropolis, is that the class employed as nurses
has undergone an entire change since the days
when the author of 50 Martin Chuzzewit'' portrayed
with his utmost force of grotesque fidelity the
Betsy Prgs and Sarey Camps " of the period"
They have vanished those ginbibbing snuff
taking, eyil-minded old women; and the places
which know them no more are occupied now by
ready, cheerful, intelligent, weeducated mat
rons and maids, whose kindly hands smooth pill
low no hands but those of true woman can do
it. The head nurse has, besides her duty of minis
tering to the sick and of seeing that her subordi-
mates are at their post and always busy the abors
of a clerk to perform. Herdaily detbook is kept
in way that would be creditable to any statistical
department. By that book the storekeeper is di-
rected in giving out stores. We turn over its
| leaves and see-taking one days entries-that of
one hundred and nine patients able TO take nouish
ment of any kind, only three we're on full diet,
| the remaining one hundred and six being on milk
| diet with guarded notifications, allowing some of
them very small quantity of solid animal food,
and rather more of what Oliver Twists bene
factor, Mr.. Brownlow, somewhat aighungly men
| toned as slopa."
The London Times says: In September last
| year we described an outbreak of cholera at
| Theydon-Bois, near Eppng Within fortnight,
| with no cholera previously in the neighborhood,
| eleven persons became in rapid succession at
tackled by the disorder 1--WE veniured at the time,
before any investigation was made, to predict with
confidence that a communication would be found
between the drainage of the h0use and the well
whence water was obtained. II the eighth report
of the medical officer of the prvy council, quite
| rapnOtlv pOblishp1 the NptaliSOf the IuVnstipa-
ton of that outbreak are desciibed. Mr.. j. N.
RadGhilde was deputed by Mr. Simon to inquire
into the circumstances, and this was the result OF
his inquiry. gentleman who spent a week IN
Weymouth early in August, and Visited both Port
land and Dorchester contracted turing that week
a diarrhea, which on his returnhome developed
into cholera. The disease, therefore, must have
existed in August at one or othd of those places.
Mr.. G. and his wife, inhabitants 1f Theydon-Bois,
lodged at Weymouth for seventeen davs from the
; Sth September, visited Portland on the 22d and
Dorchester on the 23d, returning home on the 18th
On the evening of the 23d, M G. was seized
| with choleraic darrhea. His wife during the jour
ney suffered from similar symptoms, increasing to
cholera, of which she eyentuallydied at home on
l October 1lth. In succession, BEGINNING on Sep
tember 30th daughter died of tholera, page
in the house had narrow escape. the doctor died
after ten hours Illness another daughter was at
J tackled and recovered. On October 5th, maid
3 | a maid servant was attacked and eventually died
3 and a laborer who worked on the premises fell q
victim also. On the 9Th Mr.. G, who had rallied
from the first attack, was again sized with symp
toms, and died in fifteen hours. On the same day
his son was attacked but recovered, and the grand
o mother died of the disease. On he 10th, a woman
who lived near and had laid 1.-THE body Of the
laborer, was attacked and soon dbd.
SIn this short but eventfn history, circumstances
t surely pointed to the rich masterof the household
and his wife as the unconscious oiginators of tht
= destruction. When examinationwas made, twa
: found that all the drinking water of the hous
Z came from well beneath the ooiOf the scullery
3 and into that well there was cntinual soakag
= from the watercloset In such case as this lie
3 the key if it be only calmly considered, not On
to the cause of outbreaks Of choera, but to thei
prevention.