Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-09-06

ing the same season, there were, Also some fevcrs
but not more than to be found any where in
the country, in district embracing the same
population,
terry, nor any other disease. prevailed epidemcal-
ly; and, indeed, the town was unusually exempt
from diseases of every kind
DurinS the summer just past, II OUR misior
tune to be visited by the measles. This disease at
tackled, with very few exceptions, all these who
could take 1t and, besides the whole OF the chill
dren, there were an unusual proportion Of adults
who had it, having had the good or i'll fortune to
escape all their lives till this 1T made its
first appearance IN April I'D continued i'm a mild
torn NIL the Weather became regularly and ex-T
cessivcy VAIN. All those who took the disease
during the Spring, passed through without difficult
ty; and, although it was prevailing to some ex-
tent at that time, no alarm WAS excited, and but
little consequence was attached to it; but when
tho Summer commenced, it was attended or i'm
mediately followed, in very many cases, with W
oent and obstinate determination to the bowels
Dysentery had been prevalent in the country. and
some few cases had occurred in town, indcpcnd.
ent OF the measles, hut not more than one or two
proved fatal, unless when the two diseases were
WHITE, caused 10y the late epidemic, ;ncudinr the
town, University aad the ,lIicky settled ncighbor-
hood Tor one mile atonnl, amounted to'(j in num-
Der. Those among children (much the greater
portion infrnts) f0-in all 10. All the fatal
cases since May, produced by Other diseases and
accidents, including the same district or country
mentioned above were, as follows
ADULTS. cHiLDTEs ASb INFANTS
Pulmonary consumption Cholera >
oilong standing l Worm fever I
General | Mara
pacumonic. inflammation / IIydrocephalus l
nEcioeht Mathematical 1
Si.fs"s teVer - ConvulsionS 1
Still bora
Bilious fever 2
| In relation to the three cases of biieus fever.
1t is necessary to remark, chat they all occur.
red in family lately removed to tlIis place from
Boston, and their origin is distinctly and salts.
tactorily traced to the Masmata of James,s river
They were detained OH their passage up that rv-
er an unusual length of time, between Norfolk and
Richmond, and were exposed on board vessel
during the hottest weather in August to the .cx.
halatlonS from the adjoining country. The consc-
quence was, that they had scarcely reached Char
lottesvile before every 4netn6er OF the family who
had been so exposed, t6 III humber } was attack
ed with violent fever, bearing all the character
istics of tic bilious cvcrs oftlat country and diff
tering very materially from The ordinary levers of
the mountains. One member OF the same family
who fc!t the rest at City Point, and proceed
| not exposed to these circumstances escaped the
disease, while all the rest took t-Excc;,t these 6
cases q of which proved fatally having their orr.
GIN perhaps loo mixes from this place under eve
ny circumstance Of exposure calculated TO make
them violent and without the opportunity of pro-
curing an time usat assistance which their stun
ton requred-there has not been solitary death
from fever at all. Indeed, have been almost
entirely exempt from fcvers the whole season.
but very few cases Of common remittents occur
ring; and they have been quite mild in every in
'tuee Fhe town has certainly had less fever every
year for several past, than any district in the
| country embracing the same population.
The above is true history Of every thing that
has occurred amongst US to siyc rise to the cxag-
gerated reports ct the sickness and mortality in
| Charlottesville, Those who ONLY hear Of disease
and DEATH and yield to the 81 st iapressi, made.
on the mind, without examining into the causes
wtich haze produced them, without rctlectinp
whether they are in the relation o.. cause and CT
feet, or merely accidental, extremely liable to
cir IN their conclusions. No situations can prom
csly be calcd unhealthy merely because a peculiar
combination oil circumstances have concurred to
modc ce an increased number Of diseases or deaths
IN some .pariiealar seasons With lust as much
reason might 1t be said that any town was nm
healthy because it may have Happened that forty
fifty or an hundred deaths have been produced in
one year, ore month, or even one day. by the cx-
| Pi'o''' w tHe uaSUIng vi carTiapcS.
or any other pa pabc az cident. For any place to
be justly charged with being oahcalthy one, i.
rs necessary thdt ihcte should exist i'm il some
cause to produce disease. No such cause exists
IN charlottesville or its vicinity Its elevated sis~
uation, I'D the centre of of tho hcalthiest dis
trcts IN the upper country, with abnndaucc of
cXcellcnt'watcr, and the pure air oGthc mountains
would forbid such a.supposition; and " hen we
appeal to facts, it is well known to those who have
made observations on the subject tia, the town is
equally as exempt from fevers dysentcrics, and all
diseases dependent locality, as any dishic, il,
the country embracing the same population no
one has ever yet questioned the heaIthincss I, =
che county Of AllreR,alIc No one can do il. But IL
may be questioned with iast as much reason as
shat Of the town
The whooping cough and measles, Which have
produced by far the larger portion of our diseases
lately, attack all places indiscrirairHely. the
healthy and the unhealthy. No situ1s;on is par.
ttc"larIy SUBJECT to theHA nor exempt from their
hopo