The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

THE YELLOW FEVER.

The General Board of Health, in their Second Report
on Quarantine, state that, from a consideration of the
whole of the evidence before them respecting yellow
fever, they arrived at the following conclusions :-
1. That yellow fever epidemics break out simul-
taneously in different and distant towns, and in different
and distant parts of the same town, often under circum-
stances in which communication with infected persons is
impossible.

2.
That yellow fever epidemics are usually preceded
by the occurrence of individual or sporadic cases of the
disease, which sporadic cases are likewise common in
seasons when no epidemic prevails.
3. That yellow fever epidemics, though occasionally
extending over large tracts of country, are more fre-
quently limited as to the space over which they spread,
often not involving the whole of a town, and sometimes
not even any considerable district of it.
4. That yellow fever epidemics do not spread from
district to district by any rule of gradual progression,
but often ravage certain localities, while they spare en-
tirely, or visit very lightly, others in the immediate
neighbourhood, with which the inhabitants are in con-
stant intercommunication.
5. That yellow fever epidemics, when they invade a
district, do not spread from the houses first infected to
the next, and thence to the adjoining, and thus extend
as from a centre ; but, on the contrary, are often strictly
confined to particular houses in a street, to particular
houses on one side of a street, to particular rooms in the
same house, and often even to particular rooms on the
same story.

6. That in general, when yellow fever breaks out in a
family, only one or two individuals are attacked ; com-
monly the attendants on the sick escape; and when seve-
ral members of a family are successively attacked, or the
attendants on the sick suffer, either the epidemic was
general in the locality, or the individuals attacked had
gone into an infected district.
7. That when yellow fever is prevalent in a loeality,
the most rigid seclusion in that locality affords no pro-
tection from the disease.

8. That, on the other hand, so great is the success at-
tending the removal from an infected locality, and the
dispersion of the sick in a healthy district, that by this
measure alone the further progress of an epidemic is
often arrested at once.

9. That such dispersion of the sick is followed by no
transmission of the disease, not even when the sick are
placed in the wards of a hospital among patients labour-
ing under other maladies.
10. That no one of the preceeding facts can be recon-
ciled with any other conclusion than that, whatever
may be the exciting cause of yellow fever, it is local or
endemic in its origin, and the evidence of this conclu-
sion is therefore cumulative.
11. That the conditions which influence the localiza-
tion of yellow fever are known, definite, and, to a great
extent, removable ; and are substantially the same as
the localizing causes of cholera and of all other epidemic
diseases.
12.
. That, as in the case of all other epidemic diseases,
in proportion as these localizing causes are removed or
13. That
draimorienidsih:tdali low fever ceases to appear, or recurs at
causes, there is one:
bnestierls and in milder forms.
paramount im the common external localizing
that is, the state of th
constitutional predisposing cause of
a cold climate • in othe'r namely, non-acclimatization—
pical
heat
European blood exposed
goTneceitly arrived e aystem produced by residence in
to the action of tro
that the utmost care should ; the practical lesson being
victuals or bodies of men,
within the
be taken to prevent indi-
llow fever zone, from
ye
the disease actually exists orghaisnto a. district in which
14. That there is no evidencerecently been present.
fever has ever been imported. to pr ove that yellow
15. That consequently the means of protection from
yellow fever are not quarantine restrfActions sani-
taryana
cordona, but sanitary works and operations, having
for their object the removal and prevention of theg
sJveral localizing conditions, and when such perma.
pent works are impracticable, the tens porary removal,
as far as may be possible, of the population from the
infected localities.

FLOGGING IN THE AR3ll7.—Yesterdu a return to
the House of Commons was printed on corporal punish-
ments in the army for the last five years. Last year
the number of corps in which no punisbunents had taken
place was 101. Punishments had occurred in 31 corps,
and the number of men punished was 4a5 The general
number lashes inflicted 50. In a few in; stances only 25,
and in one case, for insubordination, 75 out of 10. 0
ordered were given. The offences wor e chiefly "
gracefol conduct." Only two cases of drunkenness in
the year.

* The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or•
ans and Bordeaux. and Tours and Nantes lines.

Hanwell College, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Emer-
ton, is fully sustaining the high character it has ac-
quired as a Military Institution. Nor is it merely in
the military department that the method of instruction
has proved efficacious—we find that former pupils of
Hanwell College have been high wranglers or first-class
men of our nniversities,during the present year.—United
Service Gazette. _ _

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MADAME DE BOCARME.—The Civil Tribunal of Tour-
nay gave judgment on the 23d, in a case in which the
family of the late M. de Bocarme were the applicants,
and Mme. de Bocarme„ his widow, the respondent.
After the murder of her brother and the execution of
her husband, Mme. de Bocarme, succeeded to the pro-
perty of the former, and became the guardian of the
two children, who were the issue of her marriage with
her deceased husband. It was soon apparent to the
Bocarmd family that at the prodigal manner in which
she was living, she must soon become to the end not
only of her own property, but of that of the children.
In consequence, an application was made to the Court
of Tournay to prevent her pursuing a course which
would inevitably end in the ruin of the children. The
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counselof the respondent admitted that Mme. de Bocarm6
had, during the year after her husband's death, expended
about 17,000 fr. ; but it was proved by the other side
that, in addition, she had spent without necessity or
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persons of such individuals consideration the facts brought before it, decided, that
strength of mind to
imposedwt the duty on the legal authorities of
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the country to
as did not possess sufficient
watch over themselves, Mine. de
money,
to be interdicted from plead-
ins; borrowing
effecting mortgage, or giving
of? concurrrence and consent of
of M. Gracia, advocatethe Court of Tcurnay. The
Court further condemed
ol.e.oruesponde.nt to pay the ex• I
pence of the present appli ti on.-..ac