CHOLERA, ASIATIC. 



CHRISTIAN CONNECTION. Ill 



buildings and their attachments, drove it out 

 ftlV-ctually in about ten thn B. 



In New York City every place where the 

 disease appeared was thoroughly cleansed and 

 diMiiti ct,d ; a careful visitation of all places 

 htispcc-ted of being badly drained, or ventilated, 

 or of containing the fomites of disease, was en- 

 tered upon, and all persons who were suffering 

 I'roia diarrhoea or other premonitory symptoms 

 <>t' cholera, were supplied with preventive 

 medicines. By never relaxing their watchful- 

 ness but battling with the disease at every step 

 of its progress, it was so far restrained, that at 

 no period did it assume a very alarming char- 

 acter. There are strong indications, however, 

 that here as in Europe it may appear again the 

 coming season. 



In Brooklyn, owing to the inertness of the 

 city authorities, and the obstacles thrown in 

 the way of the action of the Board of Health, 

 the disease was in proportion to the population 

 more fatal than in New York. The number of 

 deaths was between 700 and 800. In the other 

 principal cities the deaths to December 1, 1866, 

 were in St. Louis, 3532 ; Philadelphia, 834 ; 

 Cincinnati, about 1200; Chicago, 978; Savan- 

 nah, 231; New Orleans, 132; Richmond, 164; 

 Vicksburg, 510 ; Memphis, 889 ; Louisville, 152 ; 

 in the army stationed at Richmond, Va., 99 ; at 

 Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 149; and at Tybee 

 Island, Ga., 90. The returns to the Bureau of 

 Statistics, Washington, D. C., from fifty-three of 

 the principal cities and towns, and from the 

 post commanders and hospitals of the United 

 States Army, give the number of deaths from 

 cholera in those cities, towns, and posts, during 

 the four months ending December 1, 1866, as 

 10,805. There were in these cities about 250 

 deaths before August 1, the time when the sta- 

 tistics commence, and the deaths from cholera 

 in places not enumerated would unquestionably 

 swell the total number of deaths from it in the 

 United States to fully 12,000. 



It cannot be said that our knowledge of the 

 treatment most successful in cholera has been 

 greatly advanced during this epidemic. The 

 disease did not excite so much terror or panic 

 as in its previous appearances. It was satis- 

 factorily demonstrated that preventive meas- 

 ures, thorough disinfection, good ventilation, 

 the avoidance of violent excitements or of un- 

 ripe and indigestible food, and the prompt 

 treatment of even slight diarrhoea, were usually 

 sufficient to keep it at bay. But where persons 

 were attacked by it, it could not be said with 

 truth that any one method of treatment pos- 

 sessed marked or decided advantage over all 

 others. Of those attacked even under the most 

 favorable circumstances, full forty per cent 

 died, and this whether the treatment adopted 

 were stimulants, emetics and carthartics, astrin- 

 gents, mercurials, or homoeopathic or eclectic 

 remedies. The internal administration of chlo- 

 roform and tinct. camphor, or of either alone, 

 was perhaps as sucre<s:'ul a-; any mode of treat- 

 ment. Dr. Collins, a strenuous advocate of 



calomel in free doses in the disease, and tho 



author of a work on cholera and its ' 



was one of its first victims at Cincinnati ; and 



otln-r prominent physicians of tho different 

 schools who had avowed their confidence in 

 particular plans of medication, found them 

 powerless in their own cases. 



It is not to bo inferred from this, however, 

 that no medication .is of any avail; such an 

 idea has been abundantly proved false in many 

 instances. In Memphis there were in 35 days 

 1 1 74 cases, of which 826 proved fatal. Of thee 

 551 were whites, of which 322 proved fatal ; 

 most of these were under medical treatment, 

 but the disease was especially malignant there, 

 and attacked to a great extent persons of ir- 

 regular and intemperate habits. Six hundred 

 and twenty-three of those attacked were 

 negroes, living by themselves in a low, filthy, 

 and crowded quarter of the city. These were 

 for the most part without medical attention, 

 and 530 of them died, or more than 84 per 

 cent. Similar statistics from other sections of 

 the country, are equally conclusive in regard to 

 tho extreme fatality of the disease when no 

 medication is attempted. 



CHRISTIAN CONNECTION, or CmosT- 

 IA.NS (commonly pronounced Christ-ians), a re- 

 ligious denomination which at present numbers 

 about 8,000 ministers, 5,000 churches, and 

 800,000 members. The Quadrennial United 

 States Christian Conference met at Marshall, 

 Michigan, on October 2, 1866. The chairman 

 stated that each conference was entitled to as 

 many votes as there were ordained ministers 

 in that conference. Upon calling the roll of 

 conference, tho following were represented 

 by delegates : Passamaquoddy Vermont West- 

 tern, 18 votes; Merrimack, 20 ; Rockingham, 

 15; York and Cumberland, 15; Strafford, 13; 

 New York Eastern, 47 ; New York Central, 40 ; 

 New York Western, 14; New York Northern, 

 11 ; New York Southern, 14; New Jersey, 14; 

 Tioga River, N. Y., 25; Erie, Pa., 16; Canada, 

 17; Miami, Ohio, 52; Central Ohio, 29; Mau- 

 mee Valley, 5 ; Southern Ohio, 30 ; Deer Creek, 

 Ohio, 14; Eel River, Indiana, 16; Antioch 

 and Bluffton, 42; Western Indiana, 32; Mason 

 River, 5 ; Northern Illinois and Southern Wis- 

 consin, 28; Central Illinois, 13; Spoon River, 

 Illinois, 25 ; Northeastern Iowa, 29 ; Union, 

 Iowa, 8; Des Moines, 28; Eastern Michigan, 

 17; Southeastern Michigan, 7; Central Michi- 

 gan, 6; Grand River Valley, 7; Southwestern 

 Michigan, Northern Ir^na, and Western 

 Michigan, 12; Richland Vo -^ Wisconsin, 6; 

 Northern Wisconsin, 12; ^ C onville, ; 

 making in all 40 conferencxi. ^ "he Rev. I. 

 O. Golf, of Illinois, was elected president. A 

 letter expressing fraternal feelings was read 

 from the Association of General Baptists in 

 England, this being tho first communication 

 of the kind since 1823. The General Con- 

 ference replied to this letter by a series of 

 appropriate resolutions, and by appointing a 

 delegate to attend the next annua' meeting of 



