LANE

BY

ALEXANDER F. VACHÉ, M.D.,

FORMERLY RESIDENT PHYSICIAN TO THE ALMS HOUSE HOSPITAL; STATE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH TỔ
THE MARINE HOSPITAL, STATEN ISLAND; AND STATE RESIDENT PHYSICIAN TO THE CITY AND COUNTY
OF NEW YORK; VISITING SURGEON TO THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN TO THE WILLIAM
AND CENTRE STREETS CHOLERA HOSPITALS; HEALTH OFFICER OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK ' AND
AT PRESENT PHYSICIAN, (IN CHIEF,) OF THE MARINE HOSPITAL, STATEN ISLAND.

THEDICAL LIBRARE

17213

SAN FRANCISCO

New York:

BELL & SON, PRINTERS, 486 BROADWAY.

1854.

1667 N5N8 1854

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

THE following Letters on Quarantine, Yellow Fever, and Cholera Asiatica, were hastily written at the request of a Committee of each branch of the Legislature of the State. Originally printed as "Public Documents," at Albany, with no supervision of the "proofs," unavoidable errors were the result. Under such circumstances, they have been leisurely revised, and a few notes added, that they may be published in a more perfect form.

By reference to the table exhibiting the annual number of sickly shipping, cases of yellow fever, etc., it will be seen that those for the years 1845 to 1851, kindly furnished by Dr. JAMES O. VAN HOEVENBERGH, formerly Deputy Health Officer, and HENRY PATTERSON, formerly Clerk to the Board of Commissioners of Health, have been annexed. It will, also, be observed, that during the summer of 1848, an unusual number of vessels, infected with the virus of yellow fever, arrived at the Lazaretto, mostly from Vera Cruz.via New Orleans; and that several patients, with the disease, were admitted from them into the hospital. They were, principally, discharged soldiers, on their return home, at the close of the war.

The subjoined statistical notes on cholera, were taken from