The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-01
THE CHOLERA.

Tie Recent Cases iN New YOrk-ActsOn
OF the Board of HenIth-Finy New
Cases from the Peruvian ana
s'UniOD,, md Fourt-an Deaths In tn
Hospital ship "FaIcOn.''
The officers of the Board of Health, Yesterday
took charge of the premises No. Il Cherry street
thoroushly disintected them, and burned that por-
ton OF the clothing OF the deceased John Fitzgerald
which had been soed by OBJECTIONS during his i'll.
ness 1t vas deemed unnecessary to hold a post
mortem examination, and the body was accord in Civ
buried yesterday afternoon. We have. however
been able to gather few additional facts concerning
the case, which are somewhat Interesting.
The deceased arrived in New YORK Very recentIv
in company with his family, from Missouri and was
occup, ing the room In which ne died in common
with another IamiIy. On Tuesday he dIned on boiled
mutton and some vegetables and afterwards took a
wax, stopping at one OF the numerous drinking
houses of the FOsrth Ward, where he drank glass
of beer Immediately after his return he was taken
ILL., and at II o'clock a ply stefan was called who
found him suferinn from violent diarrh9a accom-
panIeC with vomiting and cramps, and in a partial
collapsed condition During the night, and contrarv
TO the advice of the physcIan he drank some boIled
milk. At IL O'Clock on Wednesday he was visited
again ard found in a morbund state and at 2 O'Clock
he died.
The circumstances of his death were Of sufficient
importance to induce the Board of Health to take
the action related above. The death will probably
be placed upon the records under the head of
spread of poison sufficiently great to warrant
the destruction of those articles of clothing that had
been stained with the elections and objections of the
deceased. The room in which he died has been
cIeansed and whitewashed; and, for the sake of
showing that the case occurred from purely local
causes 1t was ascertaned, by careful inquiry, that
none of the passengers from the infected shus that
have recently arrived at this port. domiced in
the ne;ghborhood. What the beer had to do wlta
the disease is only surmisod, although this very peril.
nent inquiry was made and one of the physicians
was anxious to know what was in the beer?"
Concerning the case reported from the Sixth ave-
nue., nothing further was known last evening by the
Health authorities AS we stated yesterday the
woman will probably recover, or, if she should not
her death will doubtless be arged TO the same
cause as in the case ALREADY related. Her premises
nave also been cleansed. The cases, unimpOrtant as
theV NAV seem, are sufficient to show the danger
that exists and to urge them to renewed diligence
in the business of preparing for a Zoe which vio-
len'ly attacks the weak and uDaTmed
The Illinois, which came to the city with the con-
valescents from the VirgiRiG ia not in a condition
to be returned to the Lower Bav, and vii remain
for repairs. In the meantime there are but two
hulks there, and the we'll are OF course confined to
the quarters in which the disease originated. When
this state of affairs will be ended have no means
at present of determining; but we permitted to
say that the authorities are not idle, and the want
of proper accommodation at Quarantine for well
persons from infested ships is Gully understood and
universally deprecated.