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

g. A letter addressed TO the Medical Conncil OF Mos
COW by eight chief physicians to the hospitals OF Asrak
baD ssys; 1--WE have ALL without any precaution.
touched ard rubbed the Sick; ard we have daily Wis
tied the hospitals crowded with Cholera patients where
we have respired their breath yet have neither
tracted the disease conveyed it 10 our families
The attendants who nursed and applied frctons to the
patieuts-who put them into baths changed their linen
and performed other offices for the sek-remaned free
from Cholera IL the military as well IA In the civil
hospitals the linen ard clothes of Cholera patients were
transferred 10 oher patients without being previously
amigated ventilated; and nevertheless those who
wore those garments did not become affected with
Cholera Several nurses and mothers, having Cholera.
sucked their chdien both during and after the disease
yet the latter were not attacked"
g. DR.. Leleyre. physician TO the British Embassy at
81. Petersburg reports as follows;
" In private practice. among those in easy circun-
stances have known The wife attend the husband the
husband attend the wife parents their children chill.
their parensand in fatal eases where from long
httendance.and anxiety OF mind we might expect the
influence OF prcdsposon 20 operates; IN no instance
have found the disease communicated 10 the attend
ants"
T. Daring the prevalence Of the epidemic at Mos.
cow $50 persons affected with Cholera were admitted
into hospital where there already $50 patients
laboring under other diseases Not sagle one OF the
latter took the Cholera
Dir Zadkoff, ofMoicow who had formerly been Con.
taonis declares that he saw TO his establishment that
all the attendants and all the soldiers handled the sick
and supported their heads while they vomited without
using the least preoaution and without contracting the
disease.
T. Mr.. Searic who attended very large number Of
patients in Warsaw where be had charge Of hospital
for the poor writes that of the attendants not
one Of the nurses not Of those who handled the dead
fell victim TO the scourge.
O. In Berlin 400 houses were visited by the epidemic
and in 23 Of these only individual in each house
was affected while in the remaining 100 four or five
suffered in each Such is the density Of the population
in the quarters Of Berlin attacked that the census
assigns 200 families with average OF four persons
to each family TO those 400 houses being aggregate
Of l6 500 residents who lived in immediate contact with
Cholera or this mass only 500 stricken with the
disease or about one in Ii persons.
TO- In the Mariuo Hospital Of 81. Petersburg. Of
fortyhree attendants on Cholera patients not angle
one was affected; and in the temporary hospital In that
CITY, OF fftyeight attendants only was attacked.
ard lie after drinking krda while very warm.
II. Those Engaged in post-mortem examinations Of
Such examinations have everywhere been made without
any precautions and with perfect impunity.
70. d.. Foy at Warsaw. and ten others faoetlated
cascr with the blood Of Cholera patients tasted their
OBJECTIONS and inhaled their breath without receiving
the disease.
10. As 10 the cspsblity Of merchandise TO convey.
and serwsrd to communicate the infections germ Of
Cholsrs the Central Board OF Health in communica-
ton 10 the PTivy Council, remark
There is perhaps, no question IN tbe whole range
~ sanitary police on which 80 many and such IRE
fragble facts can be brought 10 bear as on this
derived too. from Che piost anihenrc sources.
Seven hundred and thirty ships laden with hemp ard
fas from infected ports Of TIE Baltic. arrived at the
different quarantine stations IN this country between
the lst Of June and the 3st Of December 1881 Many
vessels also arrived laden with wool and hides yet not
single Of cholera occurred among any OF these
ships outside osthc CatieFat among the people
eupoyed in opening and airing their cargoes IN the
lazarets At tie hemp and fax wharf Of 81. Peters
burg where several thousand tuns OF these articles
arrived during the Spring and Summer from places 10
The INTERIOR where cholera existed az the time OF the
shipment foI the capital, the persons employed In
'brackng' or sorting, ard who generally passed tue
night among the bales. did not suffer 50 early IN the
season. por so severely other classes Of the
population. The same observation holds good vita
respect all The Topeselks Of 81 Petersburg aud the
Imperial mandatory " linen cloth a. Ae1androfssy
where al the yarn 10 tpun from max prackeu ana
hacked on the spot
H. Down 10 the goth II February. 1882. Nr. Aspin
wall American Consul at London. reported TO this
Government that ony medical practitioner had died
Of Cholera 10 England, although at moderate cOmpu
taon 1000 or more had been IN constant attendance
on Cholerapaiicnts. And according TO The Atdieoie
Chrurgiosi RerieV for April Is32. not single medical
man was affected Ivy the Cholera IN Sunderland. New
castle or Ga,esbeGd.
When the Cbo,era prevailed in lie most yirulent form
among the armed vessels and transports OF the East
India Con pany, feet Ia the waters Of Iennasserine
and Pegu, in ls52 occurred among the medical
officers or hospital attendants At that time. the writer
having medical charge q wa!sieaner freely handled
the persons and clothes Of Cholera patients inhaled their
efuvia and mingled his breath with theirs-wiih the
IMMUNITY he expected So likewise did bis assistants
No precautions taken against contsgion because
contegion was never thought Of among men who an
nuaIy renewed their acquaintance with Cholera We
believe that physicians and nurses are ess0i' PdribG
less liable 20 the disease than other classes u persona
btosyse by constitution well habit perhaps they
are less liable TO that sort OF anxiety and aisrm-be
cause the midst Of the disease their minds are actively
and wbolesomly ompoyed-snd because they are con-
tnlay impressed with the importance OF hygsnic care
and necessarily Injured 10 the practice OF It.
Intelligent and impartial observation has created an
clad wall d proof agnst which the Coatagonsts
pop their small shot In vap and the face OF which
the honest medical inquirer may read these truths for
a Law 70 his professional life:
Cholera Is strictly ,pideie. existing by force OF
mysterious poison diffused through the atmosphere
Whether the influences which produce this poison are
elluric " electromagnetic" or snmalcplar. We
know no better now than we did 20 years ago
Cholera moves In the form OF volume. or Geld (o'
restoy or less extent Of such poisoned air It's rate