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Rhode Island American And Gazette
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Boston Board of Health contradicts Saturday rumor of new cholera cases; Schaffer's sisters recover without cholera symptoms; intemperate man on Liverpool vessel dies of long-term pulmonary issue, not cholera.
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A man, on board a vessel from Liverpool, very intemperate, died very suddenly on Saturday, but he had been very much exposed, intoxicated, and wet, and died finally of a pulmonary complaint, with which he had long been affected.
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Boston
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Friday And Saturday
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lad schaffer died of cholera on friday. his two sisters taken sick but reported to have none of the distinguishing symptoms of malignant cholera and were doing well. a man on board a vessel from liverpool died very suddenly on saturday of a pulmonary complaint.
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Rumor on Saturday of one or two new cases of cholera in Boston contradicted by Boston Board of Health report of Saturday evening. Two sisters of the lad Schaffer who died of cholera on Friday were taken sick, but physicians reported they had none of the distinguishing symptoms of malignant cholera and were doing well. A very intemperate man on board a vessel from Liverpool, who had been very much exposed, intoxicated, and wet, died very suddenly on Saturday of a pulmonary complaint with which he had long been affected.