New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-18
The Health Of the City.

Cholera seems fairly under the control OF the health
authorities average Of 10 - deaths occurs daily out
side charitable and penal institutions; but they
are mainly confined those places which furnish the nth
and foul air upon which the fsrment feeds Thas within
hours an entire family with the exception Of the mother e
victims the disease at the OF Broadway ead ohe
hundred twenty ihst These children went 70 grave
oon while their father followed them 70 inc same
grave following morsing Tbs poison seems 20 nave
been particularly malignant their but the atmosphere
they breahod sufficient to have destroyed them through
another disease They were crowded into room
from which both air and sunlight were shut and tho premises
we're filed with that peculiar odor which resus om comDi
nation Of the exnaons Of foul pryiss and unwashed hnmsn
ty l. is known ehors poison feeds upon suea sme"s
aud seeks victims asong those who reside 10 CROWDED
houses As long vestge Of this peculiar fermen'
our citizens will do vol to use aisih'ec.an'''
particularly those which experience hare s".Sn
TO DO eAicaoious tin destroying it namely.
suphac Of and carbob3 acid Fortunately both are
heap may used everybody Leave door open for
this disease aud will be entsr give 1t opportunity
and will destroy The mortality is decreasing. bat the
danger past Cool broesss and clear skies do not do
stroy It, Tho only prophylactcs care cleanliness and
disnieosns We only the interest Of health when
we caution our readers abao their vigilance because the
health the city improves The disease may come to Us rom
the infected places all and it may bs expected on
every ship that reaches port from Liverpool Hamburg
Antwerp Havre Our Consul at Antwerp cautions our
arrive port and have IN our Bay injected
vessels from two the ports named The sanitary
measures thus far saved from pestiIence VIII
invariably produce the result when pertinaeousy ap
Piled urge readers AID the health authorities to
continue and tho vigilance to which we already
much.
EAMFs or THE DEAD.
Eight certificates Of death from cholera were received al
the Bureau Of Records Statistics during the "a hours
ending p yesterday The following are the names OF
the deceased
August I5--EIizabeth NJ A. Kelly % England No.
I3l7 second-ave.; - Baker months. Mlnhatanyillc.
Broadway and Onehundred andtwenty Ls. Ill hours;
Joseph Pine ~ Nev'Jersey No 952 Third III hours
August I6ono Baker. 5 New York. corner OF Broadway
and One and twenty fhst. Ill % hours; johanna
Baker T. New York corner OF Broadway and ODehundred
and twenty ftht III % hours; Henry Baker 3D. Germany
corner Broadway and Onehundred and twenty fn died
at Red House Hospital Nicholas Hamm 40 Ireland corner
Of Second Eghtiet III 20 hours Sarah Boan 80
Ireland No. $50 West Tweniy-sixthst. III - hours
WHY PHYSICIANS DO NOT REPoRT.
From certain Indications conclude that physicians do
no, Ike to soc patients print and that
patients be advertised sick Of cholera.
Probably these two things have consprcd prevent correct
returns authorities of the number Of that
have occurred city Very little public interest is at
taohed the certain person sick; but when
death occurs becomes matter Of concern TO
all who survive The number OF cholera cases that occur
daily also Of public interest H. therefore the
number Of reported each day placed upon the bull
together with the Dead leaving the names
the III known only Health authorities doubt not
the eans would cheeuy make such returns are re-
qured by law The daily reports would then be made much
trustworthy and the pablo would be freed from the
mysticism that invariably surrounds the weekly reports
Of the Sanitary Superintendent.