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Domestic News August 18, 1850

The New York Herald

New York, New York County, New York

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Cincinnati's 1849 cholera outbreak report: Epidemic from late June to mid-August caused 2,031 deaths (under half cholera), lower than prior year's 4,488 in similar period. Board of Health tracked weekly fatalities via bulletins.

Merged-components note: The table provides cholera statistics directly referenced and integrated into the article on sickness in Cincinnati.

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CholeraOther DiseasesTotal
Deaths to July 1,2020
July 9,246142338
July 16,197243440
July 23,198219416
July 30,116230345
Aug. 7,53222275
Aug. 13,23124147

The Sickness in Cincinnati-The Board of Health close their reports to-day; the cholera, whose prevalence as an epidemic in our city, caused them to re-assemble and issue their stated bulletins, having nearly altogether disappeared. They report for the forty-eight hours ending at five o'clock last evening, three interments of persons who died of cholera, and 53 of persons who died of other diseases. A few cases of cholera appeared here the last week in June. Some of these being very severe, and ending in sudden death, it was thought advisable that the Board of Health should assemble, and issue occasional bulletins. On Monday, July 1st, they reported 20 fatal cases-all they could hear of to that time, though they were well satisfied there had been more. They issued their second bulletin on the 3d of July; and, for the forty-eight hours ending the previous evening, reported 40 deaths of this disease. Their reports then became daily. The following figures show the course of the epidemic, from its commencement to the present time:

Total to this date ....661
1,180
2,031

This shows a total mortality, for a period of about seven weeks, of two thousand and thirty-one, of which a good deal less than one-half was classed by the Board of Health as cholera. The other diseases were chiefly bilious, and in great part differed but little from the ordinary summer diseases of the city. Last year, the total number of deaths here, of all diseases, for a period of seven weeks ending on the 6th Aug., was four thousand four hundred and eighty-eight. Last year, the cholera appeared here early in May. On the 10th of that month, C. H. Brough was attacked with the disease, in its severest form, and died after a few hours. This created something like a general panic, and the disease almost immediately became epidemic. From that time to the 1st of June, however, the number of deaths ascertained was but 75.

From the 10th of June to the 16th of July, the number was 175. And from the 17th to the 23d of July, was 29. This makes an aggregate, from the first appearance of the disease to the date last named, of 279 deaths.

The entire mortality of the city last season, for five weeks, commencing on the 10th of June, and ending on the 23d of July, (cholera and all other diseases,) was 3,992. The first decided abatement in the ravages of the epidemic here last summer, and improvement in the general health of the city, was shown by the report of the 15th July. In the course of the next sixteen days, the deaths by cholera decreased from 87 to nine per day, and the mortality by all diseases from 150 to 31 per day. The total mortality of the city last season, for a period of eight weeks ending on the 11th of August (when the cholera ceased to be regarded as an epidemic), was 4,628-Cincinnati Gazette, August 14.

What sub-type of article is it?

Disease Or Epidemic

What keywords are associated?

Cincinnati Cholera Epidemic Board Of Health Mortality Weekly Deaths

What entities or persons were involved?

C. H. Brough

Where did it happen?

Cincinnati

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Cincinnati

Event Date

Late June To August 14

Key Persons

C. H. Brough

Outcome

total mortality over seven weeks: 2,031 deaths, less than half from cholera; last year total for similar period: 4,488 deaths

Event Details

The Board of Health in Cincinnati reported on the cholera epidemic that began in late June, peaked in July, and nearly disappeared by mid-August. Weekly death figures from cholera and other diseases were tracked, with bulletins issued from July 1. Comparison to previous year's epidemic shows lower overall mortality this season.

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