The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-07-26

them.
In n few days the cholera broke out
in the camp, and within a period of
three or four days, precisely one-half
of the soldiers, the tailor and his iaml-
ly died. Not a case hntl occurred or
did occur in The town. DR., Wn, IL.
Dallam, an able physician, as yor|
know, for he was afterwards yourpart-
ncr. attended on them. .Nt his instance
the survivors were removed to town.
supplied with oistern water, and, as "
by magic, the disease ceased,
In the March following, (lSlo, the
cholera appeared at lndianoln, and ina
few days n number OF citizens died.
Mr.. Brown had the only cemented els
tern in the place, but n small number
of the citizens had large wooden ones.
TO the best Of his recollection, not n
single death occurred among those who
used cistern water, while the number
OF deaths IN thp place wHs frlghthllly
large. SO mnrlSed was the case In CON
necti0n with the events at Lavaca the
previous December, that he called the
attention of physicians to the fact, In n
letter TO the New Orleans Picayune,
which arrested the attention Of DIR.
Warren Stone, who published anote
on tho subject ps gprciS OF nedicai
investigation, and In which he referred
to the fact that cholera in each preVi-
Gus visitation had been so fatal in the
limestone cities of st. Louis, Nash
vile, &o,. While Il haa reycr prevailed
in the piney woods Or rreestone regions
of Alabama, Georgia, &c. r.
In tie same spring (of 1S49) Captain
VIM. A. Hensley, father of the Under
.signeA aph . ENdy died Of cholera in
l4ayaca; but Captain n. had Just af'
rived from New Orleans, where the
disease prevailed, and the lady, had
been in the PLACE from the interior but
q few DAYS. Yet not u single citizen
otherwise was attacked,
IN tile fall of 1910 the brig Water
Witch, which arrived at lndianola
from Mobile, having on board the fan-
lilies of Messrs. Fleming and Lips
combe well known to you since and
oyer forty negroes, Several negroes
died OF ohoiers Oh the voyage, and
several after they landed, and were
placed In one large room,, supplied only
with weli water. Dr. j. Doh' Brown,
(well know toyonl, having justreached
the place, was then called in. He had
them removed 10 d.iGfent Gu9rtpF5.
and ut the suggestion OF MIR. Brown,
the undersigned, supplied with cistern
water. Death ceased, though ten, or
about ns-foqpEh, had died.
OF course, in all such cases, In other
respects, medical treatment was re-
sorted to. The only point designed to
be made plain is that those persons
who habitually used pure cistorn water
appeared 10 iaya Bh Immunity from
cholera, and this opinion Is greatly
strengthened by the fact believed by
us to be tlue that cholera, as an epi-
demic, has never prevailed in Calves
ton, though hundreds of transient cases
have been carried there in. the various
periods of epidemic by vessels. Ut was
said, many years ago, THAT the same
facts were sustained at and nearShyan-
nah, Georgia, SO far as cisterp, water
was used. Iaa.rr4 oe 3ai t
We ought to have stated in its
proper place, that at each Of the cpl
denies referred 10 N Thvncn nnd In
dianola, the cholera prevailed more or
less in the valleys of the Guadalupe
and San Antonloirivers, and was in its
most destructive form in the city Of
San Antonio, limestone water being
exclusively used. In the lGttnr city,
both Generals Worth and Brooke, of
the United States army, died, Yet
San Antonio, ouside of this scolTge,
has been famed from its foundation,
nearly 200 years ago, asa place won
derful for its hcalthfulness.
/ As you settled as II young physician
at Indianola in 1850, and were profess
sionally in the midst ofall the epidem-
les which followed, both of cholera
and yellow fever, welimit our remarks
to the previous period, leaving you to
make your own observations, on what
subsequently occurred; Believing sili-
cerely that in periods Of epidemical
cholera, the use OF pure cistern water
Is at least great protection against the
disease, and TINT limestone water,
especially what we usually term rotten
water, such as exists in large portions
of the prairie country of Texas, invites
its attacks whenever t1le poison is in
the atmosphere, we shonld be derelict
in humanity by declining to answer
your note, and making known the
foregoing facts. a i''i = -. I,
Messrs. William G. Randall and
Travis H Hcnsleywere citizens Of Lavaca,
at the period named, and viii doubt
less indorse the foregoing facts, SO far
as they cometo their knowledge. ,s8l
& Very truly, your friends, eFal
t-ael = JOHN, HENRY BROWN,
.a a. 7, HENSLEY. s
Wehad no more cholerain Texas UNI
til 1866. Learning that it was at New
Orleans and there being stationed in
and Immediately, around Indianoia,
four hundred colored troops, and feel
ing sure that from the constant COM
municatipn with New Orleans, it was
hut a question of time wilon We would
he visited, l went TO the commander,
General James Shaw, .jr, lat present
the collector Of the post Of Providence,
R. l. and to whom refer for the cor
recfncss iof my. statement, and re-
qGested That he would allow me to lay
down certain hygenic rules for the gov