Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-10-21
SICKNESS IN NEW ORLEANS.
Mans inhu-nanity to man.
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Makes countless thousands mourn - BURNS.
The follouias letter from New Orleans, is the
one of which we spake Yesterday. Its details
are reyoIung; but we have every reason to be-
I;ave them true, and we offer apology Tor their
notification. Can il be possible, that city IKE
the great capital of Louisiana, should have such
miserable regulations with respec, to human SUI
f.,iny when the experience of the people in sick
ne,, of all sorts, should have taught them to make
.xerv arrangement. for is amelioraton?
Phil. Ga=.
~ have taken the liberty Of wrtin. you few
lines unon the subject Of the late, and may say
,rs.eut endemic. which has only ahated from the
wan, of subjects. | am Philadelphia, just re-
covered from a severe attack OF the fever, during
which time nearly all my Philadelphia friends
are gone Among them was Mr., }. q Filling
hast for MANY years paving Teller in the Com
,nsr';,I Bank of YOUR city Until the moment
Of the attack. he enjoyed excellent health; i'll hive
d,v. he sssa corpse. Mr.. Iillinghast. bad just
ong,,ed with Martin Gordon IN the Custom
Loose a few DAYS before ne was taken. 10 emu
mera,, the names of all, would swell my letter
:, a., double one; shall therefore refer you 10 the
psxspaners. which no doubt you daily receive
70 he taken sick 10 New Orleans Is may say,
% };e Ynur chance Of escape is one tn live;
and in that situation place myself. Inc ann
Guilty Of getting good nurse renders the SICK
mans situation truly horrible; e0nhned as Is IRE
uuently the case IN Il small ciuSe room cM"met
doctor calling every hour or 50, and ordering
Won at each visit thirty or forty grams,
raoino-reasou itself eone;-there You lie. with
6tty Ieeches on voar temples. at one dollar a
niece! black assasinaiing looking nurse grin
ming al your bedside, and wishing you out OF the
world. though getting Ten Dollars day!!l so
that she nav steal what little money you have
and c,s,r out IL the room next TO that IN which
Law a vnung man Who had been bed, IN The
morning, during paroXysm oi fever tore of the
bandare. and with he blood spoutng iTUm his
arm, alarmed the nurse WHO ran dnwn stars Tor
helm Ere she returned he tainted; on the next
,,y. he died 4 short time previous 10 his death,
heard hun praying, nav begging for g'ass OF
water: bY, as he was s~eiled up with calome',
and water vas prohibited, he died-'cHhoW a
OF the Physicians OF New O'ean'' 'a"e
them generally, each one has different mode at
nrsctice: we have the T6aran Doctors. the Ne@nl
Dor,nrs the Caionei and the .Hntl- CGiOma Doc
torS. and among them somehow or another, near
~ all die. This is a lamentable fact, too we'll
Known here 70 create any surprlze by 'ts an
nonocemeut. have had some little opportnni
Is Of seeing something OF their mode oi admin
ister,ng medicine. and added to GALLONS sense oil
humanity, thew seem more like denona than adj
mini.,e,ing snpefs. Battling thus with Death
and the Doctors the poor suffering patient u!
last Yields up his spirit without SIGN. Inc"
come, the Court of Probates TO settle mp his al
fairs can better illustrate this neja''o@ M
stitution, fosDded upon corrupt principles. oy
circumstance which fell under nv own notice
A gentleman died-and was buried all the
@ IN
of expense came pouring in upon his widow
sh. wen, 10 b,nk-thc Cashier sent her to the
Court of Probates: to this part of the business
attended mvself,-frst To employ lawyer,
,hs, =, take out letters Of administrations; alter
the expiration Of ten Jays those oil cara'oisDip.
Then the appointment Of a lawyer to represent
-1bsenf heirs, when they we're tod, mere tcsTe
none Tai, Zee was To be paid, Then 10 paw
,vo annraisers of the furniture. Then 10 pay
the notcry, for taking the inventory. Then the
REGISTER nffce-and last. though not ieast-the
Court Of Probatcs itself MIR. Editor. will not
enumerate the cost nor name the snm the wy
dow had tn pas. to get the $500 oct ~ hank.-
viii merely add, II iett her ffs'uuts! You "Iil
ask. Is thIs the way We do business "e'e' an
answer, yes! >,
The cliv hospital. in place like this, should
h. a large. extensive, airy ui'dlns;-sutficien'-
Iv so 70 accommodate five hundred PATIENTS
Picture to Yourself a snug built place, scarcely
large enough to hold half that number; mean
persons taken with the fever. During the great
er part Of this season the number averaged three
hundred, and only one attendant physician, and
a surgeon belonging to the Institution, the ply
stefan being calome and castor oil one, adml-
nistered the doses so often that twenty to TWEEN
". four die daiy there, wide the report The
place is kept in the most filthy condition. only
fifteen old dirty ignorant nurses to attend three
hundred, and the attendant physician dispatches
his business there in half an hour 50 as to en-
able him tn visit his out, door patients from "hom
he has higher expectations. These poor wretch
es at the hospital lie wallowing N their filth,
the blood from the effect of calomel running out
of their mouths and ncses;-thus they die-and
are carried of, like brates. and buried, the Lord
knows where! As soon as one is removed from
his pestiferous bed, another is laid upon it,-of
course to die! The poor victims are carried from
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