To the Board of Health Commissioners of the City of Boston : the medical deputation appointed by the City of Boston to visit New York for the purpose of making observations relative to the disease now prevailing in that place, respectfully report.

  • Boston (Mass.). Commissioners of Health.
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[1832]
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Credit: To the Board of Health Commissioners of the City of Boston : the medical deputation appointed by the City of Boston to visit New York for the purpose of making observations relative to the disease now prevailing in that place, respectfully report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Hoard of Health Commissioners of ' the City of Bostons The Medical Deputation appointed by the City of Boston to visit New York for the purpose of making observations relative to the disease now prevailing in that^place, respectfully REPORT: That in the execution of their commission they have dili¬ gently occupied the principal part of. three days in that city, in inspecting the various receptacles of the sick, and in instituting such inquiries as they deemed important relating to the object of their mission. They have visited all the Cholera Hospitals, to¬ gether with the Alms House at Bellevue, and some of these In¬ stitutions repeatedly ; they have seen upwards of two hundred Cholera patients, and witnessed several post mortem examina¬ tions. They consider the New York disease to be the same Chol¬ era which has successively prevailed in Asia, Europe and Ca¬ nada. It is distinguished by most of the malignant symptoms which have been noted in other places, and which are al¬ ready familiar to medical readers, such as the sudden develope- ment of the disease, the rapidity with which the patient is prostrated, the short course after which death .takes place, a majority having died within twenty-four hours of the time of supposing themselves ill, and some in a less period; thus furnish¬ ing during the stay at New-York, an opportunity to observe