New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-12
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EnERsDAT MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10. 1888.
mae choless-lAa interesting ID tier.

Capt. VIM. Driver furnishes contemporary
with some highly interesting "Reminiscences OF his
observations in East India during the prevalence
vt the epidemic, It affords us pleasure 10 lay
shem before cur readers:
In yours of yesterday noticed a lengthy report
from The Board Of Health, among othhr things
speaking OF the draining Of several graveyards =
Ste.s into Browns Creek, and also that Of other
oal into the springs about the city, the probable
eHsct of All this upon our water, as he creek
9npties into the river above Onr waiter works.
etc, etc. Read the article, Now, all this looks
very WELL and, no Doubt Is very correct and may
excite people little on the subject Of cholera.
6ut 4 neg 70 say after no small acguain ance with
that disease in Iudia and elsewhere thht there is
nothilg IN this city or its surroundings to cause
the least alarm or solicitude, nor has there been
sAdlaS seas9AassS 81 II I'd .s5s 8sas# eg
Our summer d. dry one, has been no day with
aat 2 iahes SURFING arr We have. had plenty of
Ans fruit, 9 light food OF easy tigestidnfor man
him TO abstain almost entirely from gross
animal t4Od, particularly nork and Ieef which
we're AWAY excluded from our bills of fare in the
Sopieal regions, where the cholera originated and
E4lere 1t has prevailed in some FORM al the latter
Sart nf the rainy season. ever since the wear lslT
again repeat that there is nothinrNin our snr.
Eoundings to create the least anxiety ill our midst
about the Asatlc cholera or its American cousin
ZIG former has never been heres Its cousin is
mild type, easily mastered il met nanfhlly
ln1S2a visited Calcutta ascending HE river at
the close OF the southwest or rainy monsoon The
entire country along the river was oyeIfiowed and
tile river fast falling. We +were TWENTY-FIVE DAYS
from diamond HarboF up to the city. Found the
cholera there and from G thirteen to fifteen hun
gsed dglag per week in Calcutta and Fort
Hundreds Of dead bodies drifting along the river
oy assaaliy ana at8ah times, frequently catching
IN the cross Of our cables. where thet would re-
main until pushed off by our men. Think of this
floating hoFtor-of this broadcast frnid of Asiatic
poison floating all around you, scorcAinc in the
vertical sunbearas, bearing upon its bison tllous-
ands ct Futures and other wild Gdrion birds,
greedily deyoaring its flesh, while fro ri its many
swollen carcasses belehed forth the DREADFUL gases
e putrla4death and you will have sdne idea Of
this tropical seouTge, this child OF thu Jungle as
We saw It at this time. Shortly after hlooring at
the Bnpy, the Scotch g free trade shin Lord
Hnngerford,o of twelve hundred tons burden ami
one hundred and forty men, mostly dld drunken
mans men, D lnoored alongside of u.s. The
cholera made its appearance among them, and in
less than eight hours time She lost fift-tYo Of her
men men Tue sides of our ships were frequently
within four feet Of each other, and svery gFoan
from tha tched ship reached ourehrs: yet we
lost not nlaB, nor was there one eaIe on board
OF our ship. She was taken from heE moorings
and hauled over 10 the Sutkey side Of the river
where hep crew abandoned her.
10 account for the difference of health in our
ships, lie it understood, she was foul and dirty, /
an empty ship from long voyage among tile |
Islands in the Bay of Bengal, her CHEW a low, /
drunken set, always slept below deck when they I
slept aboard at all, as their ship Was without
awnings lived on buffalo beef pork aInd all other i
coarse food: drank arracksGay witness yisited China
&Futleg and its dens at nfghtsr-thns eGhansting
their Bretehed systems and fitting thd Ina for eholz
ara rs a w0nder they died2 0nthe other hand
ne had but two arraek drinkers on board they
we're often 4 granting I'VE lived on light food
fruits, fowls, goat meat, pilot bread mush and
ian9iasses, ete. Never worked in the sun outside /
of our awnings, and always slept above deck in.
der them protected from the dew. bu where the
air ETas algSe sld stirring Our hold we ventl- L
s5ed ny Fflld-sails IN the hatches. ThHre was no
little neglected place for3eholera To cfeep in We
vere a tidy; neat little craft manned with a mol
Die set of ilowstT thought ii tiinA enough to
snake haIlils wi trouble Thenit caTaf We lay
here i've months and lost n0t one man. zst
Ne used the river water and no other aug The
line apply drawing it up and letting it stand a.
Few days IN easks, with q small bag of charcoal
ssisp enQea an the bnng hole to purify So much
for water, etc.
could go on, but as this is part of a letter
written for the Medical journal, the reader is TT
Ierred to that if ever published for fair picture
q Asiatlc cholera, which has never visited this
country, and never will, save in a very mild form
sfor Nashville, ID one Of the heaf1lriest places
~ the world Keep its streets and alleys dry and
clean, and il we don't die till killed Nv Cuinber-
land water, and what poison creeps Into it from
III elty ana surroundings, we shall live to be go