New-York tribune., 1866-04-27
TIE Wards Island Choicrn Gases.

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GENTLEMEN. A. a regular meeting OF this B'arl'
held on Friday April 10 te Sanitary Committee proseateia
their report among other facts vAch formed the basis VI
their opinion that psstience impeding The following
The Atlanta arrived .as November a Quaraniino "!ih
Cholera Oh board RON segilaIp,ol' & aua i., @ '. m
which prineIpay attacked couyaesceuts fiom fever"
Since that time the ls Resident Physician by letters to tie
public and 70 s Board has pronounced this statement 20 be
erroneous as there OF Cholera during tie period
mentioned in any Of the hospitals situated there and
a. LIE informed have occurred since aud thai he hJ
carefully every there sick with supposed Cholera ana
found tie peculiar symptoms o
of The skin discharge suppression o
t@,i,ov f An tie case. which lad died Of the SIP
posed disease auc satisfied Liu.f iLli no cise q" OAoel
had occurred there and reported % the Commissioners o.
Emigration. aud also 10 lie Commissioners oi Health
Your Committee were satisfied az that time 10 present tie
general facts 70 your notice Gnd v0Gd remain satisfied
were that piG oc,0i posion might give some impoi
tance TO the communication TO Which have referred Two
Of your Committee DIS stoae and Crane have since that
time visited Wards Island saturday April 2 and We beg
leave TO report in continuation INFINITELY and in detail
In the Annual Report Of Stale Emgrant Hospital under
date Of January 1865 Dr. George Ford physciann CheJ
remarks as follows:
Darhea and dysenery much more prevalent han in
former years but did not appear OF an epidemic
or fatal character until the rainy period which ocegfel
type the 22l Of November tie hT fatal case was re-
corded followed daily by Others until the middle oi Deem
miiigatct, ONiig rIODaDys 10 Tue afoiADe
change which had previously taken poce ~ ine WhaHeI NV
the sanitary measures then adopted 70 avert ~ SUI cOnib
ned in the same buidngin WHch ~ ccnnehce1 up 'U.ec @
Jh dey Of December when It entirely ceased lAers weig
81 cases OF this epidemic Of which - died Ihe PtTod o
time that elapsed commemorative the iaia ter na
tiOn varied from ~ minutes me shortest 70 BIZ wy
longest; but the average oil was about 80 hours NeaI
al occurred the same building Nearly all were women or
cbdrep az the building appropriated 10 patients OF that
Glass nearly all labons under acute disease or con
valeseent from II
Tie Doctor further says:
TN endemic as you may perceive lasted about month
the deaths averaging about Que day NOV" that me uhhse
l. over for s present and the fear Of creating unnecessary
alarm deem my duty 20 state these facts IN ofder tna
we may be prepared of is carly recurrence VI 's''
form from this think manifest that mere Is pfenlspo
son In the public health be Influenced by epidemic disease
n cny time and circumstances favor its Development"
Through tho courtesy and kindness Of the Commissioners
of Emigration and of DR. Ford and Mr. Pagan we have had
access 70 the records Death Book and have taken
careful notes Of some Il they were there inscribed at
the time Of death and dictated TO NJ by Dr Ford from the
record deemng that quite sufficient fully to
establish the cha Of the disease;
CASE IL. s. aged years conyaescept from typhoid
fever attacked with vomiting and ricwlcf pushsi ueu III
easy I'm g. sged years dysentery died with symp'
'O, CasT =, Ill Webb aged 10 years typhoid pneumonia
died IN 50 hours after symptoms OF cholera "a -, D..
CAsy "" Ann s.. aged 40 years died in "a hours Re
cAsE Mary Ann Nabelee aged % years" Recorded
oy p V"Ann Park aged II yearsi conyaescen from
trnod pneumonia; attacked with vomiting ana pufgh2i uleu
~ Bridget OBrien aged q years castro.
Noy l3. ricowater DISCHARGES Nov %; died N "a
Cosrs Sle,otc tlaeG aud in posmJFlem chronic pefo'
Casr VII "Goschel Bume aged 2 years admitted OCT
p tos ck SATURDAY night Nov. 2J vomiting ana Pughs'
i csiS sEin tongue cold; died Nov 2e -
Veronica Guntlct, "BI - ''N'' u''u -''''
I D SYMPTOMS OF cholera; seized 2fi ,,..., ~
CAsE johanna RayneT aged = year, hultle9
,G died Nov % afer q hours Illness symptoms ol ebo''
ers" , o. ...r.. admitted Oc,
.,tt 'r,ts feyer died Nov 3U" Cholera sympoma-lDf.
CAsE XII-"Barbara Augur aged g years sdnll,ea 1
une n attacked with vomiting and purging pcc' u "
CAY l." Ellen owey aged l6 years admitted 0 Oet
win typbus fever; rice water vomiting and plTgng on
OF November st D. N. fell into collapse never raeu'
CAsE XIV Mary Costelow. aged 24 year.; admired @
Oct y died Dec after vomiting and pnrgng oi - uou' s
Upon posi-mortem examination. rice water discharges ~
/ In the intestines." ,t..., roo
CASE XV-"Cstberine Dean aged % years admitted Dec
l. Macuated typhus; going well I'll a. m OF Dec % Nv
tackled With vomiting and dilfrhea became coaP'eu hlu
died 10 hours Post morten 10 hours after death DOu
d and than before death Apparent e1ndatoI W
pigment through the cleroc coat Eyes and features
ana lyid small ntesnes contained thick grueElke suo
stance large Etestnes contained rcevaer except t1e reg
fum which empty membrane soft ana liJsolsu
| Olher organs examined hsalthr