New-York tribune., 1866-04-26
THE CHOLERA.
MATTERS AT QUARANTINE.
THE PROCLAMATION OF PERIL.
Origin and Progress Of the Disease on the
Virginia.
INTERESTING OFFICIAL REPORTS.

The painful interest that has surrounded the iliated
Virginia since their arrival at Quarantine
well founded indignation at the manner In which hey
been treated which has already found partial expression
both Dd daily new keep them alive and to show that
what has already said only like the lightning hash
Mat pyecedes the thunder bolt the faint multerng that
Irecedes Every day furnishes still stronger evil
deDoe the vgor with which the vessel was met IN
Upper Bay and the mortality al the hospital snip taeoh
s the best evidence that can be ofhe nhEmaDy Of keep
ing persons imprisoned with e disease when means
could be had or might have been readiness for their recP
lion and release
The fact that 40 persons attacked by the disease within
a. hours after the Virginia arrived at this port and before
rnocor was sent them would be sufficient Of itself to provoke
ebnke yet visited upon the officers Of Quarantine
Was any wonder mutny among the serage passengers
imminent and that the Captain with difficulty prevented
from foeby bursting the fetters Of the Quarantine law
md coming Was for indignation hat the
placed boats and towed down 10 the Lower Bay
a.ern Of ship and kept there during two days without
burial Can there be excuse for this species OF babar
could be thrown into the harbothe law prevents
could be taken ashore or the passengershe
Of the sT sG bo on S % Sp w S
cent board to assist in taking care OF the SICK anu t
compelled to remain almost in sight Of the city without
aid and without relief Indeed without much exageraton
Moores have fallen upon them with the most
Behodng Heaven yet feeling He'll
DEATHS ON THE HOSPITAL SHIP.
s --latest . report ST s hSFeF 1 HaEIaDn' Is from d. ~
Of the cSoiera patient. on board hospital
s.G ne ew oM., My s Msy hoS sa & Ps
DoDobs DOlan Ponto, Charles MDermott Phebe Fall
"a ehid on board the England died general debility
Five have been received nom ne Illinois a. oo~
Pontius Harriet CrOmsn, Chas McDermo b. Ponu'
The narnbeT 'o Of case. remaining in hosphh7s
been confined for the last 20 hours with daT
This shows greater mortality has yet place in
s 0g9 S Dr. of BssS peSSy yOf H oe Of the
be regretted for would that he too has contracted
OF the disease Since the 2Ot the date
removal sick to the hospital ship up 70 the date OF
list excluding those mentioned above
hpT 2oJohn GOrsOp Virginia; Bridget McGrah
',a %p isi Ffp RotS DAVID James Berenua Bengeu Mary
'y aT Mn RsS Mscoy ewa Of Virginia James Deman
yokn MGrh Von vOs.lar Katrina vOsel Katrina
&pl Mary csSGan Eliza Poq,ip Matilda Hansen Charles
Apr24-Thoma Fall Phebe Fall lhi' wfel, Bridget Collins
The whole number patients received board the hospital
shP from The steamship virginia during The five days ending
have been received the hospital ship from the steamer
Illinois which the well passengers of the Virginia were re-
aud these has died The whole number OF cases
In tbe hospital at the Of the last report was 76
INTERESTING REPoRT FROM DR. HARRIS.
The following the report Of Dr. Elisha Harris, Registrar
e Records the og dseGp%. d and @ ag
Gn sS rssaro and by Of the board Of
Heath DR.. Harris says
STATISTICS.
The number Of persons with cholera with decided
IemonitOr symptoms which remained unsIested at noon o
sther illness than cholera
number deaths cholera reported by
the surgeons of the ship from April 10 date Of first case to
ip N. Of the date above named, 81.
EVIDENCE oP THE NATURE oP TEE DISEASE
TIE disease is spasmodc cholera. The only testimony
desired had yz The aspect and obvious symptoms and
fsTse three were suffering cramps
Of cholera and the others exhibiting all the phenomena
roed fOw Of rice water eyacustons shrunken and
cold skin and mental hebtuds that upon the longer
type Of the dseace not as saw as malignant have
sSSs Durns the voyage the death rate in the
snmber Of patients treated has been small
The number Of Of choeraic darhea and fully de-
The surgeon has orsfvslsd that be failed to isp
records except Of the deaths He informs that every per
sD 3soesss Of 1Hs
son whence be bad made way directly through Rotterdam
and Hull Liverpool probably the first He died Of
SsUs however that feeble woman who was received on
& aS at sSe s %s . sS
Of which she died on the th Of April The surgeon be-
NOTES on TBB FIRsT CASE.
The man with his family wife and two little children
GO o ohss r Hull wa not then nOr subsequsn
until be three days ont At sea Two days before
noed until collapse which was noticed six or eight hours pre-
yss the after OIlopdec deck which below the water
Zine the vessel in the middle portion Of the ship having its
sUBsEQUESr DEVELOPMENT OF TIE EPIDEMIC
case occurred child found dead
on the morning Of the 18th Within first
Aeah In s Of both the oro
ns housan number behed During the five succeed
eng days reaching habo the progress OF the epde
le essentially checked except individual cases OF
fhs premonitory diarrhea were controlled
PRO8RHss SINCE ARRIVAL.
ATS April ls the number OF patients under medical
eeetusnt With symptoms o cholera more or less aeveoped
room informs The number Of eaes by me- living
but who responded TO my questions at noon was
m April 18TH From these records it sppears that about
60 been taken i'll since the vessel arrived or in
pcrod Of t2 hours.
Fu these statements appears that the development OF the
epidemic still In progress but the officers assured me that
sks disease appears TO be less troublesome and that medical
10 more eecua hope this is true though 10
o true that cholera does not present the high deatbae
Dcr the aspect magniiy has been commonly Wit
messed in epidenics on ships
the present all inquiries have not elected single
tset show that oil the has had
Shey came or through which they have passed Snce max
tre observations have asoeaned that cholera
walled Alenberg small city in SsIony from the vicinity
Sos them may bsSe pasd Chosrs Known to have pre-
vailed also villages in the neghborhood Aenberg during
che Winter Ths fact T. also Sorsy Of note nst two q the
nm and 70 the Western continent by Of Rotterdam the
ksIt nom whcs large portion 9: Low Dutch and interior
Your committee have not pressed matter separately and
wOaG smplyteport that she cities Of Rotterdam and Hull
were hs pacps points which the German passengers
reested on Liverpool The cities Wittenberg
II tie Kingdom Of westphaa and Of Csrrhue the capital Of
hand about many Some from Denmark;
che places departure Of others known but
pears probable that OF the Travelled from
sieus places further interior than the cities here named
The exact history every persons exodus from Euro should
Ascertained in this for cholera did originate
spoptaneOnsy upon the slip the fact be verified
SANITARY CONDITION OF THE SHIP.
There nothing peculiar particularly exceptional In the
ssnsry arrangements and condition Of the Virginia. Ii is In
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