Questions of the Board of health in relation to malignant cholera, with the answers of the Special medical council : together with a Report upon the causes of the cessation of cholera at Bellevue.

  • New York (N.Y.). Board of Health.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Questions of the Board of health in relation to malignant cholera, with the answers of the Special medical council : together with a Report upon the causes of the cessation of cholera at Bellevue. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Let all privies and out-houses be also most carefully cleansed and purified, either with lime, chloride of lime, or strong ley. With the use of these precautions, your Council believe there is no danger in occupying any house, however long it may have been closed. Answer to Question VII. The grand result embraced in this question, involves, we fear, several impossibilities; for the mass of mankind are, and there is great reason to fear, ever will be, insensible to the operation of great moral principles. As the attacks of Cholera are brought on, for the most part, by incurable follies, and imprudence, we despair of ex- pelling it from our city, while the present predisposition to that disease exists. Still there is no reason to doubt, that among the decent and oiderly portion of the community, an exemptiom from an attack of Cholera may be obtained in a great degree, by a strict and prurient attention to the rules above laid down. ALEX. H. STEVENS, President. JOS. BAVLEY, JNO. NEILSON, GILBERT SMITH, WM. J AS. MAC NEVEN, H. McLEAN, RICHARD K. HOFFMAN, AiNTH'Y L. ANDERSON.