Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-06-13
THE CHOLERA AT NASHVILLE.


The Disease Abating and the Panic Ending.
The Banner of the 11th, gives these
facts about the cholera Aos 3" - =
One of the most deplorable results of the
cholera scare has been that it has induced
many man to drink to an excess, partly
through fear and partly through the unac-
countabIe belief that it acted as prevent
i've of the much-dreaded disease, when it
had the contrary effect.
Sporadic cholera is not epidemic, and
the rapid abatement of the disease yester-
day goes far to establish that fact. Physi-
clans tell us that, had it been a real cholera
epidemic, few Of the people living along
Wilson Spring branch would have been
disease is attributable to the fact that the
city is being put in the most thorough SAN
itary condition, and that the people have
ceased TO eat rank vegetables. AS long as
one confines himself to wholesome diet
he may be considered safe from fatal at
tacks.
WHAT THE PHYSICIANS SAY.
A prominent physician says:
In almost all of the fatal cases of the 7th
instant the exciting cause of the same was
traceable to hearty meal of neaO this
gears vegetables. In a meeting of physi-
clans they compared notes, and almost
every fatal case was traced back to inloru-
dence of our aaeaO vegetables. Hence,
still hold out that we have a severe malig-
nant form of cholera morbus in our midst.
will here state that, when the patient is
reached in time, the disease yields to medi-
cal treatment, at least most of the cases
terminate favorably when taken in time,
and the sequal of the present form of chol-
era promises quicker reaction and fewer
relapses. / am confident that vegetable
provisions this year. are the cause of the
early breaking out of the cholera.
The following is the list of deaths from
cholera for the twenty-fOur hours ending
at P. NJ. Tuesday, as reported by the un-
dertakers 1AA aLdA4oata.4
r.. III. Groomes & Co.-Mrs. Chas. Wand,
on Market, between Jackson and Jeffer-
son.
Mrs. Georgia Craft, 199 South Market.
Two children of Wash Harding, eating
green apples, McNairy street
Jake Burton, colored, 1913 South Spruce.
Henry Works, colored, Mrs. Navey A..
jackson, at Wilson Springs.
Combs & Groomes.- Kennealy,
Stephenson Avenue.
Stefin Wilkins child, South High
G.. w. Currey.-Reports no cases.
Thomas Winston.-One colored child,
on Wilson Spring Branch.
Beside the above deaths, we have
heard from other sources of information,
of the death of Isom King, colored, at 321
Church street; Joseph Cole, colored, 63
South Spruce; and Mrs. Thompson, Will
son Spring.
We learn that there were two other pa
tients, who would not live through the
| night.
1t is reported that the negro man
| who was attacked at the corner of Sum-
mer and Cedar streets, Monday night,
and taken to his home in Edgegeld by the
police, died at that place yesterday. 1t
will thus be seen that sixteen deaths will
have occurred up to this morning.
A boat has been placed in the river near
the work-house, from which all garbage
will hereafter have to be dumped into the
water. All those dumping refuse matter in
or Immediately outside the city will be
fined to the extent of the law by the Re-
corder and te indicted by the grand jury
The dumping of garbage above the reser.
yoir is especially prohibited