[1]These are taken from the city inspector’s reports of burials.
[1]These are taken from the city inspector’s reports of burials.
[1]These are taken from the city inspector’s reports of burials.
Whole number of deaths in New York during the week ending 4th August, according to the city inspector’s report, 580, of which 383 were from malignant cholera, 1 cholera morbus, 5 diarrhœa, 8 dysentery, 30 cholera infantum, 2 inflammation of the bowels, and 10 unknown.
The whole number of cases of malignant cholera from the 1st July to 7th August inclusive, reported by the Board of Health, 4497; number of deaths as reported by the same, 1799. The report of the City Inspector, which is manifestly the more accurate, gives the number as 2295.
The epidemic whose approach we confidently announced a month since, is now prevailing among us, and appears as yet scarcely to have attained its maximum. The public mind having been prepared to expect its visitation, and quieted, to a considerable extent, by the preparations made for its reception, there has been little excitement, and certainly none of that panic which has elsewhere been so favourable to its ravages.
[2]Forty of these cases were in the Arch St. Prison, and not being reported until the next day, the number of cases appears from the report of the Board of Health to be, August 5th, 65, and on the 6th of August, 176.
[2]Forty of these cases were in the Arch St. Prison, and not being reported until the next day, the number of cases appears from the report of the Board of Health to be, August 5th, 65, and on the 6th of August, 176.
[2]Forty of these cases were in the Arch St. Prison, and not being reported until the next day, the number of cases appears from the report of the Board of Health to be, August 5th, 65, and on the 6th of August, 176.
We hope in our next No. to be able to present a tabular view of the cases, showing the number each day from the commencement of the epidemic, the situations in which they have occurred, &c.
The following table exhibits the whole mortality, and also that from bowel complaints for the 1st week in August for five successive years.
PHILADELPHIA—CAREY & LEA—CHESNUT STREET.