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.
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Cholera -- Periodicals
Bowel complaints continue to be the prevailing diseases, and within a
few days several cases of cholera have assumed malignant characters.
July 27th the Board of Health reported 2 cases of malignant cholera.
28th 6
29th 6
30th 15
31st 19
The whole number of cases, as near as can be ascertained, is 52, of
which, 30 have occurred in the districts, 6 in the Alms-house, 1 in the
Arch street prison, and the remaining 15, in the outskirts and dirtiest
parts of the city.
Report of the Board of Health for the twenty-four hours, ending August
1st, noon:--
PRIVATE PRACTICE.
CASES. RESIDENCE. DEATHS.
1 No. 94 Dillwyn street, N. L. 1
1 No. 1 Clymer street, Moyamensing.
1 No. 3 do. do. do.
1 No. 16 Vine street, City. 1
1 Between Race and Vine and Tenth and Eleventh streets, City.
1 Corner of Bedford and Twelfth streets, Moyamensing.
1 South side of Cedar above Twelfth street, Moyamensing. 1
1 Peach between Green and Coates’s, N. L.
1 Parham’s Alley, Southwark.
1 Queen near Passyunk Road, do.
1 Second below Carpenter st. do.
1 Frankford Road above Bedford street, Kensington.
1 St. John above Poplar Lane, N. L.
1 Shirker’s Alley, Moyamensing. 1
1 Third st. above Globe Mills, Kensington.
1 Otter st. near William street, do.
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16 4
Hospitals. Physicians. New cases. Died. Cured. Remaining.
Alms-house, H. L. Hodge, 1 1 1 0
Jones’ Alley, Parrish, 1 0 0 2
Locust st.[1] Chapman, 2 1 0 1
Moyamensing, Thomson, 1 1 0 1
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5 3 1 4
[1] A white woman was brought from the Alms-house in a dying
state, and expired soon after admission.
NEW CASES. DEATHS.
Private practice, 16 5
Hospitals, 5 3
Alms-house, 1 1
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22 9
By order,
WM. A. MARTIN, _Clerk_.
The following table exhibits the whole mortality, and also that from
bowel complaints, for the 4th week in July for five successive years.
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