The New York herald., 1866-07-31
THE ODORIFEROUs HUTs.
Elevations Of the District Above High
Water Mark.
The Dumping Grounds Removed
to the Eastern District.
MAP OF the CHOLERA WARDS.
&c. &c. &c.

MAP Of the CHOLERA WARDS.
&c. &c. &c.
The numerous cases OF cholera reported from day to
day have q matter Of course, excited public feeling
and given birth to great deal of unnecessary alarm
This, though always the under such circumstances
is very unfortunate thing in times Of panic nothing
is really done and everything magnifed, in
nifty, and in some twenty, and, il must be owned, in
most hundred fold. And there be doubt what
that there is some for public fear. In
parts of Brooklyn, we'll in Now York, the cholera
in its most deadly and vrucnt form, does exist The
hope, for long period entertained, and
pressed by undenabe fact that the disease
merely cholera morbus, must give place the real
TRUTH that especially in the Twelfth ward OF Brooklyn,
we'll in districts Of New York. the scourge has
made footing, and the peoples of behavior
both the Of bodies and individuals is not to shrk
the matter allow themselves to be rendered
less by fear but themselves might and main, to
have the disease checked before its avages become such
that must it would SEEM die out OF sheer exhaus
ton As to individuals and families, the proper course
be continual dread and living in continual filth.
As has again and again been uttered the master and
sovereign preventive cleanliness Let the houses that
yet unaffected be kept clean and the person tidy and
proper attention paid to dot and though the idea OF
that the disease may quietly pass by. As matter Of
course tell whom the shaft may hit "God
works in mysterious way II is the plain duty Of all
take such precautions Providence has put in their
way As corporate bodies, their duty also plain: to
that public nuisances not permitted 70 exist,
and that every public appliance used and every public
taken the best interests OF all classes Of the
community Whom all has been done that can be done,
Of there will be Of cholera but
the probability Is that when all proper precauon has
been taken and all earnest effort made the disease, 1t
continue at all will rage with the virulence.
That in Brooklyn. especially, such precautions have
been tsken and such efforts certainly ap
pear on the surface This al all events is true now
the critical moment in the progress Of the pestlencs
and that proper not taken the terrible
Roouge which has 20 frequently and with so much swift
devastated homes may add another chapter 70
rhe last census Of Kings county shows tho aggregate
population Of Tue Twelfth ward to be 130s5 9pd Of the
Sixth 70 407 In $780, according to census taken BY
Dr Norris there in the sixth ward Of males 10
fsrs,sners, II. .24 negroes, s5 and mula,ioes IS xs
regards there then living Of those between 20
% .nS two had reached ssm Of 100
years In the Twelfth ward there were then living OF
males oS Of females lies d a. ses ,S;rs foreign ars
living in 1850 o5l2 and between those Of 20 and 60 g
comparison Of this with last census shows de-.
In the Twelfth ward TO tho extent OF 1872 and Of
tho many which have contributed 70 the making
Of such reduction cholera, though undoubtedly doing
sae most active or mos, deadly agent Indeed This will
be rendered the most probable supposton by refer
once FOR a moment 70 the sixth ward, In which tho de-
crease has 10 the number Of 10 46
and in which cholera has done no more than merely
MAKE M an ,spp scrn cbieay eansneS r0os 70
TWELFTH WARD.
Some or two cases only having occurred In the
Sxth brief description of this district individual and
psculiar in many respects Is may not be entirely
un.ateesng 1t just the spot above all others in the
expected 10 gain footing and where, indeed, in all
human probability would be most certain Of keeping
IT. The low, sunken character OF the ground, In some
parts washed by risng tide and others completely
covered with rang and sagnant water he total want Of
drainage and sewerage the scarcity or running water
and me exceedingly bti character of that which ID
accessible and the habits and modes OF lie OF many
n. own, certainly not OF the most envabe DESCRIPTION
aud par excellence the natural homo and hotbcd
OF cholera the wonder being that : not 10 very truth
with sli the Ills that flesh Is heir to-" some Of these
bal qualities which the district undoubtedly possesses
will be- made the subject of further remark, with the
fond though perhaps vain hope OF having their charac
Ter changed and all existing nuisances removed. To
begin WITH
m,nifcstly defective and is acknowledged 10 be so on
oil hands though here above all places in Brooklyn,
should be the precise spot tho should II
possible be rendered most complete. That the greater
marshy and Ihe whole ward infested with the masms
arising from myriad pools OF standing and stagnant water
surely furnish no reason why the sewerage should
neglected and all sanitary indefinitely post
poned Tho physical character of the district Is well
known It's moral and social pecuiarIiies have bcen oc
onaiy made the subject of remark In fash newspa-
per articles written In snug ale house half milo al
sst from the locality Both in Brooklyn and on this
de of the river has been made the subject OF more
shan occasional sarcasm aud II confidently and rightly
believed thai Ia the very nest and propagation OF disease
and that the Twelfth ward perfectly pure, the
choera could never under ordinary circumstances have
gained hcaJway In the city Of Churches
Not that this head far as the matter gocs, thcro
h any cause for m immediate amount Of alarm. Tho
other wards with the exception of the sixth will
be secn N anoher place ~ their usually healthy condi-
ton. Rut " s surely needless To- remark that long
the Twelfth ward and portion At least of the sixth
nae a. they are no guarantee can I've gwen tha, disease
Brooklyn
rhe drainage of the ward consists in the nrst place.
Of large sewer, beginning Degraw and empty.
ing into the canal point near TO second street /.
H. Intended TO eAend this along the canal as far as the
basn aud thence TO Red HOOK rs 10 allow tho con-
s.nts 10 be received deep water. No better ar
rangement cou'd be devised, no more jadieous plan
could be put INTO execution. The ony misfortune
is that 10 is merely plan, and Of those
0ooD INTENTIONS
with which, as SOM one . eas Wisely Sld he'll !.
celebrated work Of Bleak House must he fresh in tn,
recollection OF all who have ever read Tho book anS
sbs Door soul whose all in chancery aud had
been in chancery, comoricd herself with the reflection
that she would get udgmen, in her favor day
The old lady shali have obtained her Judgment m,
sewer now extending from Deeaw street 20 secon,
street may Be emptyns - contents into deep water
pron the canal TO Richards sreet-a space inclucin
Rro0ter pOrtion Of the nsfrhy ffouhd anu that u
whioh Infectious discases have been mpst prevalent
will in ali probability continue 20 prevaltherc "a nethe
drainage nor sewerage OF any description whatever
From Richards street. 10 line with Bowen street an
Commerce street two small sewers do empty their con
tsnts into the Atlantic BASIN and with the exception
die large sewer referred above which, has been In
dtnated, extends only small way IN comparison with
the whole extent Of ground form the sus and pbstanc
Of tho sewerage Of the Twelfth ward q Brooklyn !
few aguros a. 70
Tus ssvArIos
q hs ward may no. 81 dnnIersslhs A. ths corner 2
Commerce and Van Brunt streets tho elevation Of th
ground above high water mark s merely four and
kAn foot OF courbs 10 Is perfectly well known that IN
Afrte.x x low one, aud nothing q nRuratve com