Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-08-24
FEVER AZ NORFOLK

| Ettrnct Of a letter, d4fel Norfolk, august o0b.
" \ vessel from Point Petrc, is said To have brought
the yellow fever TO this borough. At least il is GER
tam, that such vessel did arrive in very fltli, state
and her biIgc water pumped out ut one OF our
wharves that the fever appeared shortly after in the
Two houses URiOiRn, IN one of which tWo ou Of five
o ITS inhabitants died and in tie other four out of
Eve. The Mayor told Yesterday there had
heen in all fifteen deaths. and there we're
three or four undetermined Ali of them may be
traced 10 the same spot OF ITS immediate neighbour
hood The infected persons were generally removed
and have died in the other parts of the town but The
disease originated about the SINE place. For the last
two days Is said there has been no new case OF fc-
yer although heard day that there were several
! A day or two will determine whether the measures
taken To arrest tic evil, will succeed whether is
10 extend 10 other parts of the town. hope Won will
not think OF quarantine non-intcrcourse in Rich
mond As yet il is assure You perfectly umnecessa-
~ and II any necessity for il should exist would he
one oi the first TO apprlZc You of it, At present the
disease is too partial and confined to too few persons
to excite the sGallest alarm in proof of which will
state; mat car intercourse viii, aii the town, except
the spot immediately infected, has never for a ionlcnt
been inteirupted.--Nhcthcr tic disease can bc COM
ninnicated or Is contagious, syou know disputed by
many, and by Physicians generally denied. am dis
posed TO think from all have heard or read ON the
SUBJECT that distinction ought 10 he taken If per-
SONS infected are brought lo pure healthy ain,os-
| pherc, the disease caInOt he communicated But if
me infectious matter y brought Hto contact VIII air
already vtatod and pre,iisposed produce disease
1t becomes AT once active and effective. The mute
RAJ Is ALI eIdy there and only wants the quickening
principle as gunpowsIer is igniled by spark Upon
tins principle If matters little whether the fever be
contagious on net for the danger of communication
| with a place generally infected would always be
great 10 town containing III itself principles of dis
etSc.
= Monday mor1,irg.-This mornings Report qiyes
| ILL.," :
Its hoped that the cool weather, wlish has set in
si'Ge the ram OF wednesday night will arrest this
malignant diSorder-1iPre is certainly not the most
remote intention on the part Of the Executive under
existing circumstances, to impose "a Quarantine
! fiave The physicians in the port towns generally
seen an hei estlng treatise recently published in the
Petersburg Intelligence (which states thai " per
| maps specific was last Year. in New Orleans, dis
cerhed TO arrest the progress Of yellow fever
! CHARCOAL ~ This essay speak. of some extraor-
binary eases, III which the powdered charcoal was
successfully adminidcrcd-one was of fc,lnie
upon whom black vomit was exercising its fatal no.
iehcy - he powder OF common coal taken from the
Irc place and burnt again given to her in small
doses every half hour-'' the vomiting was changed
! into cat!artic, aud the female was restored to
healih - Another still more singular case was of a
stranger, who had languisied Tor several DAYS. until
his physicians bad given hin Gouls of blood
were forcing from s nosirils and the modification
OF his stomach running from his month He was
made to draw the powder through h., nose and in "a.
bout AN hour tie bleeding waSrenio,rd' Eie took " il
INTO The stomach also ; few hours he was reliev.
! ed, "a powerful puTgatiDn on, and in u few DAYS
| he was completely icstOrcd'' know not (stys the
| Wfuer,) whether should mention the name of this
physician but his exertons in the cause of suffering
/ humanity reflect nothing hut honor upon David
1. kcr', formerly OF Fredericksburg, Virginia
The Baltimore Morning Chronicle states that the pub
lie papers vary essentially with regard the character Of iii,
dore Barron. We presume that the publication OF the pr,
ceedngs of the court delay has not vet receive,
the sanction 81 our first magistrate" We trust tho Crcn
cle is correct IS It's conecue and Tint tie President ia.
not gwen ms sofo % one Of the astonishing
fences that has been pronounced by any As q
tn1t sentence, vouch Tor the statement OF IL which ",
published ON Friday last