The Cholera Gazette, Vol. I. No. 4. Wednesday, August 1st, 1832.Various
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The Cholera Gazette, Vol. I. No. 4. Wednesday, August 1st, 1832.
Various
Cholera -- Periodicals
When at Blackwell’s Island yesterday afternoon, pursuing
our inquiries respecting the Female Penitentiary prisoners,
sent there from Bellevue, we considered it appertaining
to the duty assigned to us, to extend our inquiry to the
occurrences relating to the same subject, which happened on
that Island, the institution there being a part of the Bellevue
establishment. We were informed by Dr. Spring, the physician
stationed there, that the first case of malignant cholera which
occurred on the Island, was an Alms-house pauper, who slept
there, but worked on the Long Island farms; he was permitted to
go as far as Brooklyn, July 1st, but he frolicked in the city
all the next day, returned at night to Blackwell’s Island, and
slept out of doors all night, and sickened and died July 3d--no
other case took place there until the 11th, (three days after
the Female Penitentiary prisoners were removed from Bellevue,)
when three persons sickened and died the same day; one, a very
feeble black man, aged sixty-five; another, a black lad, who
had been much reduced by medical treatment for rheumatism--both
patients in the hospital, and able to take exercise out of
doors. Their building is about one hundred yards from that
occupied by the Female Penitentiary prisoners. The third, a
white pauper, aged sixty-five, who worked on the Long Island
farms, but slept on Blackwell’s Island, formerly in the
shanty now occupied by the sick blacks; but some days before
he sickened, he slept in a small building at a considerable
distance from his former lodging place; but he not being
under confinement, would go to any part of the Island when
unobserved, and without hindrance to the outside of the Black
Hospital.--Since then, three blacks have had that disease.
We were also informed by Dr. Spring, that no case of malignant
cholera had occurred among the two hundred and eight male
Penitentiary prisoners--that a lad, aged sixteen, who
frequently complained of being unwell, died on the 13th inst.,
after three or four hours sickness of common cholera. Those men
are employed in the open air, and their prison is in the most
perfect order; the air within was as free from any impure smell
as the atmosphere without. We were informed by Col. Woodruff,
the superintendent, that it was in contemplation to remove the
Bridewell prisoners from Bellevue to this prison--and asked our
opinion as to the propriety of the measure; we give it as our
opinion, that as there was already a large number of men now
confined there, and room only for about thirty more, that the
crowding of the prison at this time, and especially from places
where the malignant cholera existed, would be exposing the
health of the prisoners to some hazard.
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