New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-10

pow ers especially In small towns are capable Of doing
much that Is efIectus toward preventing the disease;
o. there Is reason TO fear that they often DO much
f. jury by exciting alarm which their frequent meetings
are create and by their Assurances TO the pub
lie that the frat Of cholera shall be announced
IN II some exceedingly contagious disease e1.
pecied. In order 10 do much good Boards OF Health
require the power 20 change the habits 81 the sensual
the vicious the intemperste and above a to clcthe
and feed the poor and to provide ceany and comfort
able dwellings for all classes In community. But they
have not this power. The only power that exists 10
this country 10 stay the scourge which has ravsged
Asia aud Europe and now threatens u.s. Is In the pos
session OF the rich. On them must fall the burden of
relieving the wants Of the suffering. and Of thus pre-
venting and mitigating the severity Of this dreaded
epidemic -lBriSha@
1t used to be believed rather fancifully that the
bodies Of those who died OF Cboera underwent putre
ordinary circumstances Of mortality. There /. evil
deuce ofany such tendency TO rapid decomposition, and
people should beware OF the notion.
In some instances the body-at least the trunk and
head-has remained sensbly warm for hours after
death, and spasmodio twitchngs Of the muscles have
taken place and continued for considerable time. in
the corpse. Dr. Lawrie observed that conyulsve
men were common after mental life was quite extinct
and that IL was almost impossible 10 say st what mo-
ment the vital motions ceased to vibrate." a body
awe shudder shake, 1t, It's hands are eenched if you
insert your own within them and force them opes. they
shut again with spasmcdic CATCH
Thus those who cling to the notion that rapid eccom
position il peculiar to death by Cholera apt bury
with indecent haste; while those, on the other hand.
who are ignorant and supersttious in regard TO the
allacious warmth and tho conyulsye movements, are
10th 10 inter until the remains have actually begun to
purify.
On the 2ith ofJuy 1892 the Special Medical Council
Of :he NevYork Board Of Health. presented report
in relation to the unnecessary haste with which the
bodies Of persons who had died Of Cholera had in some
instances, been inferred:
THE Council" they said, "are Of opinion that the
dead NAV with perfect safety to the living remain I'M
buried ut least six hours why not twelve even during
the present warm season. and. under proper preeau
tons, for much longer period They also deem eI
pedient that the public should know that the neigbber
hood u the hospitals and burynggronuds has not been
found. upon inquiry, ~ be peculiarly liable 70 INC
disease. At the public bnrying ground. called INC
pofters Field where nearly 100 bodies have been buried
daiy curing the past wees of those engaged In
the woik have been taken III; and VI the 100 persons
living in the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb within
300 yards Of the same. not one Is known to have been
attacked"
Episemic Cholera is main branch Of the Universal
Sanitary Commission Of Almighty God; and OF all the
nu,snces IL is apo red to sbate. that which insults
with fuest ofense the nosts Of The divine source of
all physical ard moral health and healing IA fat lazy
selfish imbecie ignorance indifference. Chloride oil
lire will rot cure the Of Lasarur nor qusransines
quiet the considerations a Dives.
Wealth has power to hr.bs. BesuiJ 10 charm this
gu, al t-r.h aiko benss,h tho ,eonrE. Of hi. nser
Cfsep away de IN the Aim. hons- home q the home