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Source: Daily Ohio Statesman - Dated June 27, 1849
Cholera in Columbus.
Mrs. Domigan, an Irish lady, living in the  immediate neighborhood of the Jewett property, on South Rich Street, where the other deaths by Cholera occurred, was taken with the premonitory symptoms on Monday night, died last night.  The immediate neighbors of the deceased knew nothing of the attack until late yesterday afternoon, nor was medical assistance called in until the patient was too far gone to be resuscitated.  This makes the ninth death by cholera since Thursday, when the disease made its appearance in this city, and all of which happened in the immediate neighborhood of the dwelling where the cholera made its first appearance.
     The city continues to be filled with all sorts of rumors, in relation to cholera cases.  Every person attacked with a diarrhoea or with vomiting is reported as suffering with the cholera, and from this fact, it is exceedingly difficult in making up a report to distinguish between the real and supposed cases.  One of our physicians, familiar with the disease in 1832, and who is now in practice in this city, informed us that he has frequently, within the last few days, been called upon to prescribe for cases of diarrhoea, with the rice-water discharges, attended by vomiting, and although several of these cases, if not checked in the very first of the disease, would have run late cholera, yet he has not yet met with a case which he would be willing to call the Asiatic Cholera, in this city.
     Many cases similar to those spoken of, are no doubt trumpeted forth as cholera, because the watery diarrhoea and vomiting are considered, and generally with truth, as the premonitory symptoms of cholera.  Persons so attacked should at once consult the family Physician, there being little or no doubt that the disease, in that stage, readily yields to prompt medical treatment.
     Dr. Gard reports a case of cholera in Franklinton (Mrs. Wheeler,) on yesterday.  She was successfully treated by him and is convalescent.
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)