The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-03
Auth0r of Diseases" This was queer
compound Of piety and blasphemy.
In Providence, 1832.

At the call of DIR. Levi Wheaton the
physicians of PROVIDENCE met on June
16, 1892 at the Senate chamber TO con
slider the subject Of cholera. This meet
ing resulted In appointing committee TO
report as they deemed expedient on the
subject. The recommendations TO the
city authorities were as follows:
l. A strict quarantine on vessels from
infected places. q A thorough examina-
tion and removal of nuisances from
streets, lanes, houses and yards In the
city. 8. To require the keepers of hotels.
boarding houses, ETC., to report immedl-
ately all cases OF sickness In their houses.
f. To provide hospitals for the sick.
The City Council accepted these recon-
mendations aud appropriated 5000 to ac-
complish their object.
On July 10, New York steam poats dis
continued their trips to PROVIDENCE and
the City Council passed an ordinance
prohibiting people from entering PROVE
DENCE until after ten days absence from
infected places.
Newport had previously passed SINH
lar resolution, and the example was fol-
lowed by Wexford aud other places. A
few days later, when cholera appeared la
Newport. the mail-coach between that city
and Fall River was stopped.
The first cases OF Asiatic cholera ever
known in PROVIDENCE were on July 81.
1892 Mrs. John Thurber and a small
girl named Slocum were seized with the
disease and died on the next day. The
husband and another girl named Slocum
were attacked about the same time and
died in twenty-four hours.
On August the physicians OF PR0vI-
DENcE formed themselves into "a medical
board for the purpose OF reporting all
cases Of cholera, and Drs. Webb, Harts-
horn, Utley, Slack and LOBBY were ap-
pointed a committee TO investigate and
report all facts relating to the cases in
the Thurber family.
for two weeks, but on August 10 case
was reported on Christian Hill. In all
there were seven cases in August OF
which six died.
During the month of September, 1892,
the weather was warm ana the number
of cases increased. From the first of Sep
tember to the ninth of October, there
were twenty-nine cases reported. During
the year of 1892 there were altogethe
thirty six cases OF cholera In PROVIDENCE
Of which twenty five died and eleven re
covered.
After an interval of Is years, cholera
again broke out, and in lS47 reached As
tracan. The epidemic continued over
nearly the same course as in 1880 anc
1SiS
The epidemic appeared in providence
for the second time May "a, 1s49, when
boy six years old died. This was the frs
and only death in May. During IT,
month Of June there were four death,
from the cholera, sixteen In July. ninety IL
August, thirty-two in September, three
in October aud four in November. max
ing the total number for the year $50. o
these there were ninety-four deaths oI
the East Side and fifty six on the Yves
side. Eighty were males and sevent.
were females.
A national fast with reference to tn
cholera was appointed by President Tay
lor which was faithfully observed IL
PROVIDENCE on Friday, Aug. 3, lSf9. Tn,
last death from cholera IN that year wa
in Nov. 10.
Il. NJ. Snow, NJ. D., prominent physi
clan at that time, laid the cause OF tn
epidemic TO mysterious atmosphere
influence.
In 1853 cholera appeared in New Orlean
and in one week there were PA death
from the disease la that city.
The disease spread rapidly aud on Ma
10, 1854 there WAS decrease from dea tn
in this city from cholera. During tina
year there were 159 deaths from the dis
ease. Nine.tenths of those who died. wer
of foreign parentage and seven-tenths o
the deaths occurred near the canal and a
Fox Point.
Cholera did not again appear in Prov
DENCE until the year 1866 when there wer
forty-seven deaths from the disease. q
those who died twenty. nine were male
and eighteen were females. In 1867 ther
were three deaths from the disease.