The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-24
The ChoIers--The Disease In Ten
nessee.

ne1see. .
The following extract from the Nash
vile Banner Of the 18th. although not
containing many facts that We have
not had before, illustrates the alarm
produced by the prevailing epidemic in
that city and the localities in which it
is most prevalent:
There was q good deal of dismay exs
pressed yesterday over the report, which
was only too true, that the cholera had
spread more rapidly, and that there Was
a greater mortality than upon any pre-
vious day. A good many who have
heretofore been standing on the order OF
their going, packed up yesterday for a
trip to the country. 1t is expected that
there will be large exodus OF people
out of the city to-day. Many hesitate
to 90 to the country, however. for fear
they may take the disease without any
hope OF obtaining physician 30 quickly
as in Nashville. This fact has on sew
eral occasions been somewhat alarm
ingly illustrated. The disease does not
exist in Nashville alone, but in the
country around it, and some of the
towns within radius OF thirty miles.
There is no question about the spread
of the disease into almost every part OF
the city. The fact was painfully devel-
oped Yesterday. 1t was thought that
it had been abating in South Nashville;
but il seems to have still remained in
that portion of the city. An unusual
number of new cases were reported from
that part OF the city yesterday. 1t
has also made its appearance In Fair.
field, with prospects OF increasing IN
that locality. 1t has also visited Roll
ing-mill Hill, which is almost altogeth-
er covered over with small negro
shanties. From the manner in which
the occupants live, all huddled up tor
ge,her, it is feared that it may there
become a plague, with no small results.
II was much worse yesterday along the
western depression, and along the Lick
branch bottom and on Crawford and
Criddle streets especially. There are,
perhaps, more cases on these two short
thoroughfares than upon any five OF
the largest streets. On them live some
Of the poorest as well as the most de-
graded people OF which a city could
well boast. Here. from two to six per-
sons occupy the came email, uncom1
Portable and cherries room, i'll turn-
ished and very unclean. These are the
abodes in which disease and death have
full sway. The sanitary department
were engaged yesterday in dlsinfecting
these two streets, and the thoroughfares
and low places in their vicinity. Fifty
barrels OF tar were to have been burned
over the city last night, had it not been
for the rain. 1t would be very wise
and prudent course to pursue were this
done nightly. 1t ought, in fact, to be
done ali the time while the pestilence
remains amongst us. 1t must be fought
in the most stubborn and relentless
manner. We were slow enough, all
know, to appreciate our danger at Q
time when much could have been ac-
complished towards preventing it's
spread. Dilly-dallyipg with this form.
liable disease is anything but encour-
aging.
THE CAUSES OF CHOLERA.
The Nashville Union OF the 18th
quotes DR.. Hammond's opinion as Civ
en- in these columns on the causes
which may give rise to cholera The
following is the extract:
DR.. William A. Hammond, late
Surgeon. General OF the United States
Army, in an interview with areporter
of the New York World, said:
"You know that what are known as
diseases proceed from con-
tact with germs which float of the in
fected surfaces and are transmitted by
currents OF air 10 healthy bodies.
These germs are found in the blood OF
persons affected by these diseases, but
are not distinctively recognizable. /
mean that a germ that produces one OF
this class of disease does not differ per-
ceptibly in appearance from those that
produce another. / have, however, no
hesitation in saying the germs that pro,
ducs cholera are contained in the ema-
nations from human excrements, and
that at this moment the seeds Of chole-