Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-10-05

was al ttat time WuOuy iiee Aon any NoA'o
eious or malignant disease.
From the New- York Daily Advertiser.
We observe il stated in number OF news
napers from various sections of our state,
that letters from New York, as we'll as the
statements of persons arriving in the country
announce that the fever in this city is mucn
worse thanthe reports of the Board OF Health
represent it to be. That such reports flnd
their way into country towns is not at all 10
be wondered al, for there are many persons
who would not think the intelligence res
pecting the late fever in this city worth COM
municating to their country friends, provided
they were strictly confined to the truth
There is another class of persons who delight
in making false statements, and who imagine
that the more frightfui the intelligence which
they carry home to their neIghbors, Tue
greater will be the interest to hear it related.
One case of malignant disease in TINS city IS
magnifed into ten before 1t reaches one
hundred miles. and as story never loses by
travelling, it will amour, TO fifty cases in
distance of one hundred miles more. we
can assure persons in the country, that the
only correct intelligence respecting the ie-
yer in this city is TO be derived from the dali
" reports of the Board OF Health. No other
can be depended on. From the great res
pectabili,y of this body, their prudent mea-
sures and energy of character, as developed
from the commencement ot the alarm, their
reports are received here by all classes OF
citizens with entire confidence.
THE exsggeration OF which the Daily Ad-
yer,iser complains is not limited to New
York. Our citizens well remember the lu-
dicrous reports which every stranger from
the country would assure us were circulating
few days since, respecting the heallh OF
Alexandria. Many good people did really
believe that malignant fever ragged here
and it was said that the inhabitants were dy'
inc off rapidly-at least ten day-ihat The
utmost secrecy was observed, and that greet
care W as taken TO bury them in The night! ~
.1ier. Gdz.
The result of the Ward Elections in Ph'la-
delphia, on Friday last. for Inspectors OF
the General Election, gives total OF 1913
federal votes, and 1929 democratic.
We present 10 our readers to-day the frst
RlI Of Mortality ever compiled, by legal au'
tbority, 10 this city. 1t atfords favorable
view Of the health OF the city duling con-
f.ssedIy the most unhealthy month OF the
year. During the space OF thirty days. III d
population of about thirteen thousaha' Vi
whom perhaps one half are not natives oil the
town. but collected from every quarter OF
this country and OF other countries, there
have died, of diseases peculiar TO the season,
In, three adults two ftyphus and one OF
h;l,ors fever. We doubt whether there IS
any settlement, of the same extent, IN Inc
country, of which the same can he saiu.
The establishment OF Health Office is OF
recent date, and we are indebted Tor 1t 10
the present Council. Its but just, however,
to say. that much is due TO our Health Oth-
Ger. who strongly recommended the measure
TO the Cooperation, and cheerfully performs
without ompensation the duties devoIved on
him ty this appointment. tNdt. mt'
A Census of the White Persons in the
State of South Carolina, has been recently
taken. according to a law passed at the last
session of the Legislature. The number Is
reported at 1888 which, compared
with the enumeration al the Census OF 1910,
presents an increase of l4,356, in the tree
white population of the state. i0'd.
Portland, (.Maiae,) Sept. IA.
NOBLE ACT
With pleasure we record the noble ana
manly exertions OF Mr.. Ztbedee Polleys,
Young man of this town, in rescu'ng from
watery grave the sonef capt Lemuei Moody.
On Wednesday last, while amusing him.
self with two other lads, in small float on
| Rack Cove river, they were upset aud lett
/ to the ir fate; two of the number provinen-
,;ally reached the shore, while The one