Sketch of the progress of the malignant or epidemic cholera, from its arrival in America. With tables illustrative of its progress in the principal cities it has visited / by Edward Warren.

  • Edward Warren
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1832
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Credit: Sketch of the progress of the malignant or epidemic cholera, from its arrival in America. With tables illustrative of its progress in the principal cities it has visited / by Edward Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon the 7th July. At Troy, no cases were reported until the 17th. At Rochester, two cases were announced upon the 14th, the disease for the time passing over Schenectady and Utica on the Grand Canal. Soon after, cases occurred at Schenectady, but were not noticed at Utica, until about the 12th of August. Cases occurred at Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson, about the 24th of July. Michigan Territory.—In the mean time, the disease was extending itself along the borders of the Great Lakes. It soon reached Detroit, and produced considerable havoc among the troops there. The first case occurred on board a steam¬ boat, in a soldier of intemperate habits ; and previous to the 11th July, seventeen cases and nine deaths took place. Pennsylvania.—A case occurred at Erie, on the border ol the lake, upon the 26th of June, in a subject who came from Quebec. She was an emigrant who had lost her husband by cholera in her passage to this country. She had arrived at Quebec on the second of June, passed through the Canadas to Buffalo, and thence took the steam-boat to Erie, where she was landed on the 22d. It is mentioned that on the 23d she washed the clothes of her deceased husband. On the 25th she was seized with cholera, and died on the 26th. The next case in this state appears to have occurred at Pittsburg, on the second of July. In no place, however, did it assume the appearance of ari epidemic until about the 16th, when it began its course in Philadelphia. Cases had indeed occurred at intervals in Philadelphia; and rumors of its existence spread considerable alarm as early as the second or third of July, and prevented the usual cele¬ bration of Independence. JYew Jersey.—On the 7th of July, a case took place at Newark, in the person of the wife of Capt. T., of one of the steam-boats. She came from New York on Thursday, the 5th July. She had been residing in that city, in the imme¬ diate vicinity of the disease. She had while there been some-
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