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carriers of the sick, and eight grave diggers. The dead were, two 
physicians, one surgeon, forty stewards or matrons, nine carriers of 
the sick, and eight grave diggers. 
In the province of Dantzig, were counted seventy nine cases and 
fifty one deaths. ‘The sick were, five physicians and surgeons, fifty 
nine stewards, three carriers of the sick, and twelve grave diggers 
or carriers of the dead. -Of this number, three physicians, thirty 
six stewards, two carriers of the sick, and ten grave diggers, died. 
The number of sick in the province of Potsdam was fifteen, of 
whom twelve died and three recovered; the deaths were, one sur- 
geon, eight overseers, two inspectors of qdarkntine, and one washer- 
woman of the cholera hospital. 
Finally, the epidemic commencing in the province of Coslin, has 
already caused the death of one overseer at Lauenbourg. 
Such is the summary of the cases observed up to the 3d of Ape, 
1832, in the Prussian provinces ;. it results from this sketch, that the 
persons employed around the cholera patients, have less chances of 
recovery than of dying, when they contract the disease, and that in 
the proportion of two hundred and seventeen to two hundred and 
fifty nine; that is to say, there are about four cures. for five deaths. 
We have not here the total number of persons employed in the hos- 
pitals, in order to ascertain the proportion of those’ attacked with 
those who are not; but as we have already given that of Berlin, we 
may suppose that it is the same in the other cities, that is, about 
forty times greater than the mass of the population. In fact, we 
have seen, at Berlin, the forty one hundredth part of those employed 
in the hospitals contract the cholera, while among the ‘population 
there was but one case for every three hundred inhabitants.* The 
deductions from these facts are too evident to render it necessary 
to express them here. We will submit it to the non-contagionists, 
whether they can explain them upon the supposition of its nents a 
purely — disease.—Bib. Univ. Aout, 1833. 
6. Jodeuie on Cholera, and other topics, in a letter dated Hamp- 
_ stead, near London, Nov. 1832, and addressed to the Editor. 
Cholera—its habitudes.—F rom all I learn, the experience of our 
English Physicians has made but /ittle improvement in the treatment 
* See the No. for December, 1832. 
