Newport Barracks Cholera
The Covington Journal, Saturday, September 27, 1851, page 2
Cholera in the Barracks
In the early part of this week the cholera
broke out in the Barracks in Newport. There have been it is said, 30 or 40
cases, butonly four deaths. It is the thought the worst is over.
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The Covington Journal, Saturday, October 11, 1851, page 2
Sickness at the Barracks
A statement made out, we suppose, by the Surgeon of the Army Hospital and published in the Newport News of the 9th inst. says that since the 22d of September last, there have been 198 cases of sickness in the Hospital, 90 of which were cholera. In the same time there have been 11 deaths, 9 of cholera, 1 of diarrhea and 1 of typhoid fever. Of these survivors all, with one exception, will recover in a short time.