The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-02-22
WHAT Has BEEN LEARNED ABOUT
CHOLERA IN NEW YORK.

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pr. Hatris, the Registrar Of Vital Sta
tisties for she New York Board of Health
IN his hlst annual report, sums up briefly
under the heading ssWas cholsra gsUerally
epidemic ia 1956?s'A all the fnportaut
features of the visitation of that year.
These conclusions, it may be assumed.
form the gists of the information that Was
published dnring ths.Whole0 SESSION, and
ell that was learned by the Board Of
/ HeaIth., 9-l-..ssse- Is
IS First-Thst true Asiatic cholera ap-
| peaTed 10 various places 10 tbs cities q
New York and Brooklyn, in scattered and
! widely distant localities, for some time
/ previous to July 8; aud that, as early as
gnneo6. IL manifested tendency to occur
in gFoops and as q shouse epidemic
even where there existed no other dis
covershle cause than the saturated cloth
| ing and the undisinfected excreme nts of
the cholera sick; aud that"at an sarsy
period IN July there existed in New York
aud Brooklyn certain well marked oholsra
fields, in which the virus of the epidemic
appears to have become, in some manner.
| fixed in the soil or in the local atmos-
phere of those neighborhoods.
| "Seeond--That neither the house ep-
idemics' nor the cholera fields we're inEa.
EriablF those 10 which septic or common
Summer cholera was most likely to oc-
eur, and that the grouping Of cases, and
the particular places of outbreak, could
not Invariably. be accounted for upon the
hypothesis of local origin aud seIf-pro-
duced or domestic causes, though the
presence of recognized collateral or localiz-
ing conditions that favored the propaga-
ton of the malady had few exceptions;
those exceptions we're significant aud i'm
portant.
"Third-That in houses aud localities
where well marked first cases of cholera
were not promptly treated by local cleans
ing and specific disinfection. cholera soon
obtained foothold as a local epidemic,
and that we have found no large group Of
fatal cases in which this was not true;
while in great number of instances,
where the disinfection was prompt and
adequate, the arrest of cholera in the
very worst localities, WAS immediate and
final.
s'Fourth-That in three hundred and
sixty-two houses where individual per-.
SOHS VI idu4illSS VETO SL4AItoi W OEOtoEnt
but which were promptly brought under
full sanitary CONTROL by disinfection and
local publication. the pestilence did not
extend beyond the family in which the
first case occurred. 81 ssg
"Fifth-That over crowding, bad VEN
tilation dampness and filth of apartments,
dwelling houses aud blocks, together
with neglected water closets, common
privies domestic neglect, street filth, and
defective drainage, were the chief localiG-
ing conditions of the epidemic wherever
it spread rapidly or remained obstinatsly.
"Sixth-That about one half of the
victims of cholera who reached cold the
stage. died, and that no method OF medical
treatment seemed to have any positively
curative effect upon cholera in collapse.
"SeVenth-That every important out
break of the epidemic affecting more than
one person or family, seems to have been
preceded some days, or more than twenty
four hours, by a first case, or a small
group of cases, of cholera or choleraic
diarrhea in the house or the immediate
locality.
"EighthLThat in most instances
where q first case of cholera was, from
any cause, left to contaminate foul conn
mon priyy, damp, porous or filthy coil,
or a crowded and filthy house, without
thorough disinfection soon applied, other
cases followed