The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-14
THE CHOLERA.
A Fatal Case In New YOrk-The Disease
QuArAntfn0.

The indications of an approaching epidemic
for which the Board OF Health prepared itself
some time since, with the extraordinary power
granted by the proclamation of impending pes
thence issued by them and Governor Fenton
jointly, are becoming daily more and more ap-
parent. The scattering cases of cholera that
occurred last weeks seem likely to be repeated
during the present week. as harbingers of those
that will follow, unless a rigid quarantine and
the most thorough cleansing rob the disease of
its virulence and its victims.
AS the season progresses and the heated term
draws near, cases such asi those already reported
will naturally occur more frequently; and as
every one demands immediate attention from
the Board OF Health, under whose direction dis
infection must take place in many instances, if
at ALL 1t is more than probable that body will
take such measures as will keep one of its en-
ployes or officers on duty during those hours in
which the Office has heretofore been closed, so
that its aid will be as readily available during
the night and Sunday as at any other time. At
all events, this would be wise precau1on, and
one that would undoubtedly have beneficial
result in the event OF an epidemic.
CHOLERA IN THIRrY-FlFTH STREET.
The disease has found victim in the resi-
dence or one of our best citizens, and in the
e!eanliest and most salubrious part of the city.
The origin of this case is somewh hidden but
the circumstances, so far as they are now known,
seem TO be as follows Sarah Kelly O servant
in family residing in the south side of Thirty
fifth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
last Sunday visited her sister, living in Willett
street, where she remained until o'clock p. M,
in the mean time eating indiscreetly. On Mon
day morning she was attacked with painless
dialrhea, which passed through the regular
stages to unc cJntrolled rice-water or albuminous
discharges, muscular cramps, and collapse. The
patient had the best OF medical treatment, but
only survived the attack thirty-siX hours, dying
on TUESDAY night.
The house in which she died is said to be a
model of cleanliness and hygienic care, so that
the cause of the disease must be sought in
some other place. The residence of her sister,
IN Willett street, is in one ot those overcrowded
districts so numerous east OF Filth avenue, and
is surrounded by all the accumulations of
filth which are almost inevitable where families
are huddled together in tenant-houses. People
so situated become accustomed to breathing q
vitlated atmosphere which would soon sicken
those accustomed to more heathful localities
and better air. Whether she contracted the disease
during her Sunday afternoon visit, and through
her ind secretion in eating, cannot be known.
That she died Of the Aslatlc cholera, however,
cannot be doubted.
also reported yesterday afternoon, but they were
not sufficiently well defined last evening to war
rant us in giving the names Of the patients, or
the location OF their homes.
TIE CHOLERA AT QUARANTINE.
DR.. D. II. 3issell, Deputy Health officer, under
date of Yesterday, reports three new cases re-
ceved on board the hospital ship Bdc0n and
two deaths, as follows:- Admitted June IL,
JohanDis Johansen, aged 10 mo1ths, Sweden;
Lenie Lamphin, aged years, Hanover; Eva
Johansen, aged 25 years, S8eden. Died, June
l2, Cornelius Iohr, aged 81, OF Germany; Johan-
mis- Jobansen, aged 10 months, Sweden. Re-
maining last reDort A; new cases, g. Total, A.
med o TTndar treatment. 45,-N, y. Tribune