The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-28
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were careless ADOPT cleanliness. Though
there was constant Communication between
the two places, It was not until late in June
that the cholera appeared in Bridgeport.
The disease broke ont there in the night,
aud in 80 hours 90 persons had died from
it. The epidemic was then so general that
there were not enough able bodied people
in the town to nurse the sick, OF buyhthe
dead. A number OF benevolent citizens,
among whom were several physicians, WHO
went over from Wheeling, found fourteeh
Corpses, none Of which had been laid out,
b man and his wife both lying dead in one
| sAt tie time Of this epidemic the discus:
Bion as to whether cholera was or wus not
contagious was carried on with, some heat
a ventrresotne Wheeling journalist who
had that)it was not wrapped Mmselfnp IN
the bed clothes worn by cholera patient
who had Just died, and slept one, night in
ihe bunk on steamboat where the man
had Just breathed his last. He escaped all
symptoms ofthe disease. ! 'tS"
From 1919 TO 1854 frequent cases Of the
cholera were encountered by the Wheel.
ing doctors in their practice, and The dis.
ease played such sad havoc among the
workmen on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
then IN process OF construction, that work
was suspended for several miles, at one
time. it{'f l.+f5i HI. I'LL lIk
- THE LAST EPIDEMIC.
The last time Wheeling was visited by
m epidemic Of cholera was in 1873. At
the advent Of the disease the city was not
in especially bad sanitary condition for
Wheeling. The fist case reported 10
DR.. S. L. Jepson, Health Officer at that
liine, was that OF German woman living
iu- The Fifth ward, who was taken with
cholera June 9th. The fact that the disease
appeared here five days before It was re-.
ported at Cincinnati, though its progress
was up the river, was extensively com-
menteG on at the time. Qf course it was
not impossible that some one should have
tome from point at which the
disease was raging, and it was gen.
orally admitted that such was the
case. The woman died on the sixth day.
The second case occurred June20, in an,
Eighth ward tenement house, and eight
days aftor another case was developed in;
the same house. The disease raged until
ltAS lhat VA 1cptttuuGil W mhlPH tlklc kuCIo
were S. cases, 92 Of which resulted in
death. OF the 85 cases 99 were males and
l9 females, and only one child. 0neeas
had fatal result In six hours alter the at.
tack, ndanother in seven and ahali Irs,
and from this alarningly short period the
duration OF fatal cases ranged up 10 II
iaya. Most Of the cases were preceded by
diarrhBi, though In tlEes or ioqr the pa:
tent was attacked without warning. The
First ward had s cases, the Second l, the
third l., the Fourth ], the Fifth 9, the
sixth s and the Eighth o. Tnere;wers no
cases on the Islaad, and only. o. nohht Of
the creek.
The good effects Of disinfestiou as a
measure OF preventing the spread Of the
disease we're established beyond question
during this siege, and to the thorough work
done by Health Officer Jtpson and his
corps Of special assistants is no doubt TO be
attributed the fact that the disease did
not have greater run at this time.