The New York herald., 1866-04-27
The HEALTH OFFICERS STATEMENT.
&c. &c. &c.

An eminent physician. DR.. Marsden, lays down Ne
following certain of tho laws Of choen:-
Frst-That it Is a communicable and controlable ~
iSecond-That it's causes are not in the atmosphere
Third-That 1t accompanies human travel and human
traffic.
Fow-That progresses at the rate of vessels
the ocean, and never precedcs them.
Fyh-That is transmissible by clothing and effects
Sirth-That in never appears in a new locality without
communication directly or indirectly with persons Or
sspenth-Lastly, that IL may be arrested, like sAs
plague, by absolute quarantine of short duration.
IS IT CONTAGIOUS!
II be true above assumed, that cholera is oonta-
eious communicable from person TO person. and not n
the atmosphere then II is certainly disease that -
shut out of any port city by absolute that Ia
perfect quarantine.
Some Of the facts relative contagousness
ing upon this point will be interesting.
The following refers to the first appearance Of the dr.
ease in Constantnople
Up to the 28th of June nothing in the hygienie
dton OF the city announced an epidemic OF cholera
Alexandria with cholera sick board they landed
the arsenal and five days pass before the first
in patient from the military workmens bar
racks situated hardly steps from the landing OF the
arsenal From this day cases multiply in the arsenal
ve..e Ismir is the rst attacked, being at the same
time nearest the barracks and II Is only . few
days more before the M transports ,s anchored RED s
OF Parmak -capon, At the entrance Of the arsenal,
and only few PAGES distant from the barracks. u
roughly dealt with IN its turn finally the rest OF tho
guard and the workshops infected. In the mean
time the corvette Ismr towed to the exterior port
where she romans for fortyeght hours; the choaerA
continuing, she removed to Bouyouk-tlman; several
days later the first OF cholera appears in the
terror port. On the other hand, the citizen workmen
employed at the arsenal propagate the disease IN
Kassm.pacha II we turn to Yeni-Keny, which is
o Ss s
for the first established case is that Of stone
from r. S .s as ALREADY , III S =
symptoms OF cholera Is "a contagious
as dS y0a e ss ne D.ss
import cholera Do you wish an additional proofs
That which has happened to the Marine Hospital may
furnish The first Of cholera having stayed 6
the hospital hardly longer than few days the patients
remaining there for other diseases were affected and
succumbed under the attacks Of cholera The fourth
ward where the cholera local origin.
observed entered on the Sd day OF July, with simple
Among the employees the arss victims attacked
OF the cholera ward and two washerwomsa
who cleaned the linen Of the cholera sick
Cholera does not appear to be contagious by sim
pie contact OF the patienis but the cholera patients
pox with this difference that whereas IN smallpox 3
communicated by the skin in cholera In through tho
escrstons especially 1.-THE The stools that m % sns infection %
houses occupied by them infected ships may harbor The
coniagion for long time and become the cause Of
Infections Il also be observed that the stools of
persons suffering from mild Of the disease
from choerine and cholera, like darrhea do not con-
the contagon any less than the excrcons Of those
suffering from confirmed cholera is, therefore, easy
to conceive why ship building &c, may be affected
without case OF cholera having occurred.
Prof wiemeyer, Of Tubingen, makes the following
statements on the same point
The question whether or not cholera is contagious has
been for long time subject Of debate Il has, how
ever, been stated in too indefinite and too inexacs
lead any positive results The facts which
have been collected together regarding the manner in
which the disease Is popasaied would indicate that is
hart of
that Of CONTAGIOUS disease. II the hAnd,
certain that cholera not communicated directly fo1
greatest intimacy; but, the other hand Il
ainy spread only by patients afflicted with the ds-
IL Is the evacuatons OF individuals infected
with cholera through which probably In all. and
tainy in most cases, the disease Is propagated Tho
70 Pcsieniofer and Dcbrueck throws light on a mutt
tud OF facts hitherto little understood, and apparently
s sas se oov r
nincant secmingly diarrhea, cholera be conveyed
to hitherto healthy locality. This person may travel
and without further development Of the
disorder, but he has left behind him. the closet,
matter which may give rise TO the most deadly cpide-
mic II Is thus no longer nexplcablc how the cholera
its wandcrings takes defined course but spreads
ndifcrently, from west 10 east from east
west; with the wind and against It how
IL always follows the routes Of travel; how Il does
not 90 from place 10 place IN shorter time Than
required Tor men TO travel the same distance and how
since the building OF railways has able TO spread
more quickly than before. We can thus. at least
part, explain the great leaps which Il has sometimes
Il
houses and streets In which those infected reside
the paces Of The greatest danger because the
II Is not seldom thai single house strees
Is for long time the only infected locality, and
that those inhabtng alone seized by the disease
But while those buildings and FIRST visited by
the cholera are being depopulaied, the poison sooner
later In communicated 20 other houses and streets
| In the neighborhood partly by means OF common
privies and partly by other ways which we cannot
cholera rsgcs portion Of the city which at its begin
ming completely spared while those wards which -
nrt dcimated by the disease then entirely FREQ
Nom H. Similar experiences have been made In al
places where the epidemic has ragged although In
densely crowded ces the observations OF course
made with more difhcuty than In thniy settled VII
agcs
csn cite one fact from the Nsgdeburg epidemic OF
1850 which speaks for the correctness Of
views The cholera was brought into Magdeburx in
this year BY OF transport filled with recruits
from S<cftin, which at that time visited BY the
disease; and during the first week after their arrival
occurred only In the street In which the sck
recruits had quarters for the night Mn Grenswsd
small and thnly built place, able, In little
spdcmic which had an opportunity 20 observe, v
prove every instance that the attacked
with the disease had used the prvics Of the houses In
which there cholera patients into which cholera
discharges had been smp,ied-
Dr Kennedy writing Of the cholera In India says:
The disease has travelled the very face OF the wind
from village 10 village from one military station TO
another and in the route q troops from Nagpors
70 Jaunah from Jaunah 10 Aurungabad and Mulsanm,
II bss visited the derent villages between
this and Hyderabad Al Hydcrsbnd two officers have
lately fallen sacrifice 70 The masdy one of these had
constantly attended the death bed ef the other and no
himself vas corpse forty eight hours amer
CHOLERA ALWAYS IMPORTED.
I'm everv ops of the cases vhicn our city has been
waited bv this disease We are able 10 trace TO the ship
that brought a.
In fss1 a vss developcd 6rst the locality where TIE
ARA vessel thai came 10 this country with chocrA