Remarks on the resolution adopted by the Honourable the Board of Health of the City of New York on the 6th Nov. inst. in relation to Dr. Nicholas Chervin, a French physician. [And his inquiries into the origin of yellow fever / [Nicholas Chervin].

  • Chervin, Nicholas, 1783-1843
Date:
1821]
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Credit: Remarks on the resolution adopted by the Honourable the Board of Health of the City of New York on the 6th Nov. inst. in relation to Dr. Nicholas Chervin, a French physician. [And his inquiries into the origin of yellow fever / [Nicholas Chervin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from Algesiras. It is no matter if I have thought proper to transcribe also the able refutations made by Dr. Rodgers of those unfounded reports. I have taken, at full length, a report of the 9th of August, 1816, in which Dr. Quackenboss informs the Board, “ that on the 4th instant he was called on by Mr. Wright, keeping a boarding house at No. 81 Vesey-street, to visit a sick per¬ son there, and found one Joseph Malligan in the last stage of malignant fever. He had arrived in the brig Pocahontas, from Savannah, which, according to the report of toe health- officer, arrived at the Quarantine on the 23d of July, after a passage of seven days,” &c. &c. I have copied from the proceedings of the Board of the 8th of Sept. 1819, the following: “ It was stated that a sailor on board the ship la Florestine, now in the stream, had his clothes washed by Mrs. Kavenaugh: it was referred to the assistant.” His report, by the by, I have in vain searched for in the minutes. I have transcribed from the same, of the 13th Sept. 1819, the following passage:—“ Dr. Flicks reported that he had visited the seaman on board the ship la Florestine, that he was ill of malignant fever, and was sent to the Marine-Hos¬ pital : whereupon, ordered, that the said ship be immediately sent down to Quarantine ground.” The only extract I have taken from the proceedings of the Board of Health of the 14th of Sept. 1819, is as follows:— “ A letter was received from Dr. Hosack, dated 13th inst. stating John Conrey, No. 34 White-street—taken ill of yel¬ low fever on Friday. He stated him to have been exposed to contagion in the prosecution of public business at the Quarantine-Hospital.” Is not this report explicit and clear enough to prove evidently, in the judgment of the honourable Board, the personal communication of the yellow fever ? The only passage which I have also written down from the proceedings of the 10th of Oct. 1819, says that u Dr. Dyck-