20 NOTES ON THE CHOLERA SEASONS OF 1832-4. 



August 7th, 1832. 



Cases remaining 40 



New cases 19 



Cured 8 



Died 11 



Total number of cases reported since the commencement, 239 ; 

 deaths, 105. No report from four medical practitioners. 



In Montreal, where the ravages of the pestilence were more terrific 

 accordiuo- to its population than in any other part of the globe, the 

 number of cases, in August, was 284, and burials 149. 



Total number of cases each week during the cholera months of 

 June, July, and August : — 



June 2 4833 July 21 2787 



'■' 9 10.599 " 28 1353 



" 16 2316 Aug. 4 94 



" 23 2478 " 11 3931 



" 30 1654 " 18 909 



July 7 2407 " 25 540 



" 14 3126 



From this it is evident that the statistics of the cholera of 1832 in 

 York are more a subject of conjecture than otherwise. It was said at 

 the time, and it was not going beyond the mark, that the population 

 of the town, then consisting of about 6000 persons, was at least deci- 

 mated. In the City of Montreal alone the interments from June 10th 

 to Sept. 1st were 2820, and according to the estimate of the Chief 

 Agent at Quebec, no less than 2350 of the emigrants of 1832 fell 

 victims to the disease. The emigration of that year was unprecedently 

 great : — 



1829,.... 15,945 



1830, 28,000 



1831, 50,254 



1832, 51,746 



The crowded state of steamboats and other vessels, the peculiarly 

 exposed state of the poorer emigrants to the varying temperature, 

 scorching sun, and chiUing rain, together with the debilitating effects 

 in many cases of a long sea voyage, all these causes told with fatal 

 effect, and aggravated the malignity of the appalling malady. 



