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August 18, 1832
Phenix Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia
What is this article about?
Richmond hopes to repel disease using sulphurous pit coal as fuel, lighting hearths daily and fumigating cellars, and burning brimstone in streets at night, as successfully done in Trois Rivieres.
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We have founded no small share of the hope we entertain of the escape of Richmond, upon the use of pit coal here, as the principal article of fuel. Its sulphurous property is undoubtedly, from the experience of other places, a repellant of the disease. Once a day, every hearth in the city ought to be lighted. Cellars especially, ought to be dried and fumigated, by slow coal fires. They are the haunts of pestilential vapors.
We respectfully entreat the civil authorities to burn brimstone in the streets at night. Its efficacy at Trois Rivieres was most remarkable, for the escape of that place, situated between Quebec and Montreal, seems fairly ascribable to that cause.-Richmond Whig.
We respectfully entreat the civil authorities to burn brimstone in the streets at night. Its efficacy at Trois Rivieres was most remarkable, for the escape of that place, situated between Quebec and Montreal, seems fairly ascribable to that cause.-Richmond Whig.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disease Or Epidemic
What keywords are associated?
Disease Prevention
Pit Coal
Brimstone
Richmond
Trois Rivieres
Where did it happen?
Richmond
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Richmond
Outcome
escape of trois rivieres from disease attributed to burning brimstone.
Event Details
Hope for Richmond's escape from disease based on using pit coal as fuel due to its sulphurous property repelling disease; recommend lighting every hearth once a day, drying and fumigating cellars with slow coal fires; entreat authorities to burn brimstone in streets at night, citing its efficacy in Trois Rivieres.