New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-12
CHOLERA PROSPECTS.
TIE DISEASE IN cINCINNATI.

THE DISEASE IN CINCINNATI.
The Board of Health of this city sent out
DIR. John g. Peters, June as to make official tour
OF the Southern and Western cities where cholera was
said appeared in order nd the real char
acter OF the epidemic recently passed several days
in Cincinnati and s before his departure reporter OF
The Enquirer OF that city visited him and obtained the
following among other statements:
The in this city true Asatic cholera without
donbt yos can't get around that All Al. the lower
cred with fatal cases or groups OF cases THESE Were
pretty evenly dstr!buted on oyer ,s porr1h oa .nd
greatly. 1t has come upon you as sort OF house cpl
demlc and with the fear II would spread from these fool
remained longer than should have done Otherwise to
witness spread think 1t must have come from New
orleans. When see case OF smallpox l never
Asiatic cholera with its cold tongue and cold
breath and other unmstakabe symptoms. do not call
il some other until can trace IL back from the
patient the Delta OF the Ganges You don't those
blue. shrveed cases that get down ana die 10 three or
bcb sntoipated sprcad before this time and since
you have escaped this diffusion, the prospect looks
fafrer. You do not seem 10 be IN danger from con-
aminated water and your streets are reasonably clean
and they are wide 80 10 yentate your city well.
You may under present circumstances nc aoe 10 stamp
II out. --a"-1-s-~~T - .1--s~ - - 10
My theory for its importation IA that Russian snip
Odessa brought It to NewOrleans. The first cases
in that city Feb this year, and were all fOr
eigncrs IL has from there here by lines OF travel
They escaped easily at NewOrlcans because the city
was better condition than ever under Buler III Ad
been subjected 10 ten months ulslhlecuOn preparing
against the yellow fever.
The Doctor said that he especially desired TO be judi
ciOus and do nothing 10 create panic here lie had
sent his communications TO NewYOrk, stating facts as
he found them and these communications would not he
given 10 the public HI no need for panic here.
The disease had proven cOnquerable Oneif fought skill
fully al every step The condition OF this city might be
better for receiving 1t than l was, and yet its CON
ditOn might be much He had great respect for
the theories OF other physicians whose views and his diff
fered he believed there cholera without con
tact with cholera poison and that not through the air
but by being taken In food drink. The disease
distributed by persons and things, especially clothing.
lie thought eating would not bring IL on; thought II
might aggavate IL after the poison had been taken. IT,
regard To dsiufectants he said that zincsndrOn
dsnecant had been very successful in NcW-Orleans,
aud good dlsinfectants were coppcran, carOOc
acid, ana permanganate OF potash
REPORT on THE CHOLERA IL NASHVILLE.
WASHINGTON, July ia letter has been
received by Dr. G. c. Cox President OF the Board OF
Health from DR. j. ID. Punkct President OF the Board
of Health at Nashville, Tenn, stating in reply to inter
rogatores propOunded by Dr. Cox that Asiatc cholera
exists in that city in much more malignant form than
in 1866; that 1t is general throughout that
community though principally confined to poorer
classes that routine practice Of other epdemcs Of
cholera has been pursued a method OF treatment,
and with no advance its former unsatis-
factory results. In reply 10 the question as Ia
adapted 10 that locality az "A preventative or
what hygenlc MEASURES have been found best
mOdifer OF cholera, he says that specific measures
have been pursued, that the common plan OF dsiDeC-
ing and cleansing have been adopted. He adds that
cholera has nearly disappeared from that LOCALITY. bat
leaves nrctabe form OF dysentery which itself has
become epidemic.