Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-06-18
FROM NASHVILLE.
The Condition of the ChOlera-Excttement
COntinucs-ExOdus of Citizens.
Correspondence of the chronicle.l

Correspondence Of the Chroniclel
NASHVILLE, June O., 1873.
AS leave on this p. NJ. train for East |
Tennessee l will give you some notes |
about the cholera in Nashville, which is
just now the all absorbing topic here, as it
must also be of interest to your East Ten
nessee readers.
That the disease is now epidemic, is gem
orally admitted. AS L was walking on the
streets this afternoon L saw an old gentle
man very excited and busily filling pre-
scriptions to O crowd anxiously awaiting
their turn. asked him what the facts were
about the cholera. He aswered, Tits cpl
demic and getting worse. There is no use
denying the facts" / can not say that the
disease is "Asiatic," it seems to me to be
domestic" Every case, without an ex-
ception so far as 1 can hear, is attributable
to the imprudence in eating or drinking.
The Asiatic wave has not reached Nash
vile yet. The disease is proving so fatal
on account of the filth of the city, the late
wet spring, the hot weather and the inn
prudence of the people.
ABOUT SOME OF THE FATAL CASES.
L all SOlu JlldO Iut IScNs NuOSSb 6 IOOJCC,
Rector of Trinity Church, who died Mon
day morning, took long walk and ate
food imprudently just previous to his at
tack.
Mrs. Judge John G. Gaut had not
been very well previous to her
on the street on Thursday evening.
called at the house Sunday to see the FAM
ily, but was met at the door by the Judge
who in great distress told me his wife was
sinking in violent attack of the cholera
L went to the house Monday morning and
learned from the panic-stricken neighbors
that she was just dying. She was an esti-
mable lady, a sister of Mrs. Sneed at
Sweetwater, and a loving dutiful wife.
The family are in deep distress over their
sudden bereavement.
Rev. Moses S. Royce was formerly res
ident of Greeneville. He came originally
from New England. Has lived in Nash
vile for some years.
THE EXODUS OF CITIZENS.
The excitement in the city is intense.
The fatality at the outset is so great that it
has created panic. The streets are quiet.
Business houses are still open but business
is very dull. The hotels are quiet. The
corridor of the Maxwell House has scarce
w q lounger. Just as / was leaving |
learned that the st. Cloud was to close.
Every train leaving the city is literally
iammed. on some of them it is almost
impossible to find standing room. The
transfer and ticket Office at the Maxwell
House is constantly filled with excited
people. One conductor remarked that the
exodus reminded him of the flight just
after the capture of Fort Donelson.
The authorities are doing what they can
to cleanse up the city. Lime is being
scattered about and the streets sprinkled
with disinfectants. Mayor Kerchival has
appointed the following physicians as
ha Sanitary BOARD nf Nashville.
j. d. Plunket, J. w. Stout, t. p. Con
nell, ]. Saudek, r. w. Sneed, +. II. p
Pool, Thomas Menees, t. A. Atchison, z
X. Winston, G. Schiff, j. w. Maddin, L
w. McMurray.
The Banner of the 18th, gives thes'
facts about the cholera:
One of the most deplorable results of thu
cholera scare has been that it has induced
many man to drink to an excess, partly
through fear and partly through the unac
countable belief that it acted as a prevent
i've of the much-dreaded disease, when i
had the contrary effect.
Sporadic cholera is not epidemic, ant
the rapid abatement of the disease yester
day goes far to establish that fact Physi
clans tell us that, had it been real choler
epidemic, few of the people living aloni
Wilson Spring branch would have beei
spared from death. The abatement OF tn
disease is attributable to the fact that tn
city Is being put in the most thorough san
itary condition, and that the people hav
ceased 10 eat rank vegetables. AS long a
one confines himself to wholesome die
he NAV be considered safe from fatal al
tacks.
WHAT THE PHYSICIANS SAY.
In almost all of the fatal cases of the 1t
instant the exciting cause of the same wa
traceable to a hearty meal of nee0 tn
gears vegetables. In meeting of phys
clans they compared notes, and almo'
every fatal case was traced back to inlprl
dence of our nea0 vegetables. Hence,
still hold out that we have a severe malit
nant form of cholera morbus in our mids
1 will here state that, when the patient
reached in time, the disease yields to med
cal treatment, at least most of the cas-
terminate favorably when taken in tim
and the sequal of the present form of che
era promises quicker reaction and few
relapses. l am confident that vegetab
provisions this year are the cause of Il
early breaking out of the cholera.
Old and SprightIy.
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