The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-15
rLn Cholarn In CIncInnatI.

The Board Of Health Of New York city
sent out Dr.. John Q. Peters, on June IS,
to make an official tour Of the Southern
and Western cities where cholera was said
to have appeared, in order to find out the
real character Of the epidemic. He re.
Gently passed several days in Cincinnati
and Just before his departure reporter Of
the Enquirer Of that city visited him and
obtained the following among other state
ments:
The cases in this city are true Asiatic
cholera, without q doubt; you can't get
around that. All the lower level OF the
city, In the ampitheater OF hills, was GOV.
cred with fatal cases, or groups Of cases.
These were pretty evenly distributed all
over this portion Of the city. Here are
foci from which I feared It would spread
greatly. It has come upon you as sort
| Of house epidemic, and with the fear It
would spread from these ioci, remained
lonRer than / should have done otherwise
10 witness It's spread. think Il must
have come from New Orleans. When l
see q case Of smallpox never ask how
the man came TO have It. When l see
Asiatic cholera, with its cold tongue and
cold breath and other unmiStakAble gymp'
toms, l do not call 1t some other name
until I can trace It back from the patient
TO the Delta OF the Ganges. You don !
see these blue, shriVeled cases that get
down and die In three or four hours when
when the disease is cholera morbus.
Since your city has been peppered over
with these ioci, from which anticipated
q spread before this time, and since you
have escaped this diffusion, the prospect
Ilooks iairer. You do not seem to be In
danger from contaminated water, and
your streets are reasonably clean, and
they are wide 90 Is to ventllRte your city
well. You may under present circum-
stances be able n stamp 1t out
Nv theory for its importation Is that Q
Russian shi p from Odessa brought 1t to
New Orleans. The first cases In that
city were on Feb. 8 this year, and we're
all Foreigners. II has come from there
here by lines Of travel. They escaped cas-.
lily al New Orleans because the city was
In o better condition than ever under
Butler. 1t had been subjected TO ten
months disiniectlon, preparing against
the yellow fever.
The Doctor said that he especially de-
sired to be judicious and do nothing to
create q panic here. He had sent his
communications 10 New York, stating
facts as he found them, and these commu.
nications would not be given TO the pub
lie. He saw no need for q panic here
The disease had proven q conquerable one
IL fought skillfully at every step. The
condition Of this city might be better Tor
receiving 1t than 1t was, and yet its con-
dition might be much worse. He had
great respect for the theories Of other
physicians, whose views and his differed,
but he believed there was no cholera
without contact with cholera poison, and
that not through the air, but by being
taken in food or drink. The disease was
distributed by persons and things, especi.
ally clothing. he thought eating would
not bring It on; though It might aggravate
It after the poison had been taken. In re-
gard to dlsiniectRnts he said that new
zinc. and.iron disinfectant had been very
successful in New Orleans, and other
good disinfectants were Copperas, carbOllc
acid, and permanganate Of potash.