Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-08-24
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Norfolk, August l6-9 \. NJ.
| regret that am compelled, from sense
OF duty owe the public generally, 10 inform
you, that fever oil malignant type has
made ITS appearance in confined section OF
this town within the last week, which has. in
several instances, proved fatal. Ii perhaps
may appear presuminS in me to take upon
myself theresponsiblty Of making areport OF
this kind but our Board of Health have de-
clared that they did not deem a report necessa-
| ry, or II they made one, they should not be
able to state whether the fever which prevailed
was yellow or contagious, and the papers have
been entirely silent on the subject-longer
| silence, therefore, in me, conceive would be
objectionable.
On the Esd July, the schooner John Ar
instead, Neale, arrived at this port from Point
Petre, (Guadaloupc,) with cargo of moasscs
she had passage of II days. After coming
inside OF the Capcs, she lost two of her men
by sickness, who, the captaIn reported, were
IN perfect health, as well as the rest ofthe
crew, when they sailed from Guadaloupe.-
The vessel was detained two or three DAYS NJ
the quarantine ground, by the Health Officer.
ana tilen permitted to come up. She hauled
IN alongside of W0odside's wharf, near the
lover part of the town, where she discharged /:
while IN the dock, however, in pumping. out.
with the mOlasses which had leaked from the
casks, that, thc weather being warm. il was in
complete etTervescence; and so offensive
was 1t to the crew themselves, that some of
them stepped ashore and desired family
living near the vessel, TO close the doors and
windows Other house, which they did, The
stencil was so intolcrable, that it attacked the
nerves OF several persons as high UP from the
wharf as Maln-strcet, the persons at the fine
incapable OF imagining from what source or
cause so oilenslvea smell could proceed The
vessel at the time lying so close TO the wharf
ana having a list towards it, that half of the
contents pumped from the vessel was dis
charged upon the wharf However, as soon
as the proper authorities were advised of what
was doing, &c. she was compelled TO haul off
into the stream and some ofthe sailors after
wards reported, which they subsequently
swore to- that three off crew were sick with
a fever when she sailed from Guadaloupe.
and that two of them died as before stated.
Captain Neae was brought before the Mayor.
and the penalty for making Il false statement
IN case of coming from West India or sickly
port, was imposed upon linn.
In about ten days after the affair Of pump
ing out of the schooner, five of the family in
the house where the notice was given TO close
Jilc doors ana windows, were taken sick with
fever, two of whom died on Friday last
the Others We're Immediately removed to the
country, and have nearly recovered The
family at the house where the crew of the
schooner boarded, and where they took their
clothes, have nearly all taken sick since, one
of whom has died. The fact is, that upon
Woodsidc's wharf, and that part of Water |
street, at the head o. the wharf, seven persons
have died since last Friday, and all of them
very suddenly bat whether Of malignant
fever it is impossible for Inc to say one oil
Dur first physicians, however, told me last
evening, that case which had terminated |
fatally in the forenoon, Cyrus Davis ap-
preached as near the symptoms Of the worst
yellow fever as he had ever seen: and II was
possible that one of the first eases might have
leen that Of yellow fever also bot bel
thought, he said, that none OF Che other cases
ycre Of that type.
There was one death last night, and there
re now, perhaps, about nine persons sick, but
What the opinions of their physicians sre, Il
annot say Il