Measures proposed for the prevention of Asiatic cholera in the city of Providence : a report to the Board of Aldermen / by Edwin M. Snow.

  • Providence (R.I.). Board of Health
Date:
1865
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Credit: Measures proposed for the prevention of Asiatic cholera in the city of Providence : a report to the Board of Aldermen / by Edwin M. Snow. 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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    • t thirds of the terri- ciated, by our citizens generally, that ^- except tory of the city, there wdl not be a **&<£ individuals. In from gross excess, or imprudence on the part y ^ such cases, as cholera is not contagious, there the public, but only to the individuals *»££. ^ must Fourth. The work described under the piecemn , be thoroughly done in the month of May. After that tune, will be necessary, through the summer, to keep up a constant watchful care of certain localities, and in a limited number ot cases, it will -be necessary to repeat the work of purification, again and again. Fifth. There are some stables, and offensive manufactories in the city which will need attention, though the number is very small. There are also a very few places where there is stagnant and filthy water at times. One of the worst of these is in the neighborhood of Webster and Ashburton .streets, lying mostly beyond the city limits, in North Providence. This, and some other nuisances near the city, will need the co-operation of the authorities of the neighboring towns for their removal. Sixth. By the faithful execution of the measures already named, we may confidently expect that all danger of a general prevalence of the disease, in this city, will be removed, and the greater portion of the cases of cholera, which would otherwise occur, will be prevented. But, in the month of July, the pres- ence of the atmospheric cause of cholera, which no human power can prevent, will cause a greater tendency than usual to the ordinaiy bowel complaints of the season. These will yield to the ordinary remedies, and will furnish no occasion for alarm among the people. If the weather is .favorable for the disease, and if the foul canal basin, the offensive sewers, the filthy streets, and the hogs east of Ives street, and near the city in North and South Provi- dence, are permitted to remain, as at present, this tendency to bowel complaints will be greatly increased, and we may expect that in certain localities some actual cases of cholera will appear, and we shall be compelled to recognize the existence of the dis- ease in the city. At this point a new class of duties will devolve upon us. The
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