The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-17

clothed souls do homage before their temporal and
eternal Dsoser' "Who durst, who could, alter
this, asks even unbeIieyng Noltare 'be guilty OF
single crime, or only conceive the idea of onef"-l
The day thus begun we'll and profably, leave
with he stranger to examine at his leisure, the var
Gus other churches, converts hospitals, orphan asy
ium schools, exchanges and public buildings, which
testify by their works 10 the morals, enlightenment
and liberality of this Southern cosmopolis. The
most fastldous taste will discover among their divers
archlectures order other to delight his
eye. Every variety from the antique gothic To the
| heaven pointed American steepe-from the gro
tesque Arabesque, to the graceful column OF lonia-
from the bizarre orientalism to the mosquelike dome
all lend the usre OF contrast with many limitations
| Of the chei-d'euvres of Rome and Athens. Lest,
| however, II may be supposed that Catholicism pre-
walls absolutely, because you'll see SIX cross bearing
temples, will add, parting that there are besides,
| two Episcopal one Presbyterian, one Congregational
aud two Methodist Churches, but as these are always
closed except on Sun ay, will recommend the strai-
ger to the polteness Of the sexton often expert
enced by myself that day. with the that
at each and all OF them he will discover absence OF
olgoty and exclusiveness peculiar to this city, and
hear nought but promises Of love, piety and mercy
from his God and words Of peace charity and good
| Will towards
The health OF the city, however, is what has chief
| ly engaged my attention during sojoun of near
twelve months in il and the neighboring country, and
hasten TO say that the story Of It's dreadful mortality
Is fast fading away before the light of truth-thit
smothered voice, which will at last be heard After
careful examination of the details of the Board of
Health, am satisfied, will essay TO prove, that
the sanitary condition of New Orleans is steadily adj
yancng and that its salubrity increasing with the
| Improvement its moral and physical condition No
city the United States greater relative float
| ing population than this, o, while they are not
counted the census very materially aid in swelling
| the bills Of mortality. One fourth of the annual
number of deaths i'll be found the dead list of the
Charity Hospital alone, and there are sever other
Maisons de Sante, aud lnfrmares, in which num-
bers of unacchmated strangers d OFT every epdem-
ic year. The number of deaths, the years when
the acclimating is most fatal, do not now much
exceed the number Of deaths when the city did not
contain one half the population which it does at pre-
sent thus showing the pr gresive healthfulness the
injustice OF the oboquy cast upon 1t with respect to
this alarming mortality at least. The popul tion at
the present tine, exceeding hundred thousand
souls, fully warrants the assertion, therefore, that
1925 deaths from yellow fever last year,
sonaby establish, under the above ideraons, the
character which New Orleans bears of being |
not only second Gomorrah, but also Golgotha.-
Besides it should be taken also into consideration that
we have but few cases Of mortality from consump-
ton and typ us fever, so destructive to life in the
Northern cities. Of pulmonary disease in general 1t
stated to be here fatal to about thirty while
at the North it is generally estimated to be about one
in four 1t is true Tetanus oftener met with here
than in Northern lalitudes, but then it is dis
a med of half its terrors and atty by the Judi
cious and skilful employment Of the old Spanish
medy, tobocco. Again, it not every year the stra
gers fever prevails, and when does the unaccIlma
ted have here the advantage VIII oh Charleston does
not afford Of retreatng with safety into the country
the margin of the lower Mississippi behind of the
| heathest countries in the world. OF the ten cpl
denies with which the city has been visited since the
cesson To the United States, in 1903, the average
annual oss estimated from the best sources has not
been o. The most fatal epidemic that of
1922 The deaths by this disease that year was 8
or in 1928 of the entire population. The next
most fatal year was the lat, la4l, when 1925, or
in 1921 of the entire population died. During
1922 the highest number any one day 90; dur
ing l84l, the highest number one day So
The exact mortality from yellow fever of other
years is not known, there record kept Of
the detail The whole mortality, however has been
made subject OF comparison, in the statement of
the three fall months of epidemic years. since 1917
by the Board of Health, wherein is exh tied in tabu
lar form the relative mortality, and in this is shown
a sensible reduction in comparison Of recent with
former years. But there is another mode resorted to
in the science of medico-vta statistics for arriving
at the discovery Of facts concerning the gradual me-
loration Of climates under the improving hand of
man hs was aaoPsu ~ W.. noa' "n n the epi
sIofc exist, in separa series. The first Sc.
res was formed OF a number of years anterior to
1920, the average of whose mortality in 81 IA
The last formed of those between 1886 and
1910, and found to be | in 1928 But if the
mortality at the Charity Hospital, made up exclu-
svely from the floating population, never counted in
the census be deducted from the last series the ratio
will be in $40, and if the last years of il on
" be taken, the mortality will be reduced to | in
51I5 making this by kind of political arithmetic,
much the healthest city of America. Among the
causes which, correlative with the improved state of
medical practice, TO be noticed, have tended to
this happy amelioraton Of health may be enumera-
ted the draining of contiguous bayous and swamps-
the proper embanking of the River-preventng
through leaks percolations deleerous admixture
of the fresh water of the with the salt water OF
the lakes and canals-the paving, and cleansing by
water works, of the streesthe shaded public walks
and avenues attordng pure and decarbonzed air
the favorable division of public wealth which affords
to each individual labor and subsstence-the low
price of the necessaries Of life furnishing the indus
trious classes with every comlort-the excellent and
we'll egulaled Hospas--and lastly the noble chart
table institutions and associations, which have been
formed to seek out and administer to the crying cases
of human suffering incident to the accmation-fever
among the many migrants who ort TO this home
of the stranger" Like as it is an Eon of Divinity
the spirit of charity, pure unostentatous, and genu
| inc, hovers over these warm-hearted Southerners
uniting them together, in bonds of brotherhood and
sisterhood, for common object-the go of man
| The % Young Mems Howard" and the g Samaritan
Associations have already worked out for them,
an endearng recompense within their own ndiy dua
hearts infinitely above all human commentator and
4" Les Danes de la Providence and Les seurs de
la Congregation" 600 in number y are the speaking
pic ures Of their own poetic devotion Truly touch
ing and elevating it, during the latter and most
malignant period Of the past epidemic season. when
the retiring Azrael was shaking his most eihiterou
wings scenes of desolaon, to observe that un-
daunted benevolence, and that Jealous pety which
inspired only by the most enrolling sympathies and
se-sacrhcing virtues carried these diaries of the
Cross into t remotes haunts of indigenc sickness
and death-there TO dispense bounty, comfort and
hope to those who were ready To perish
/ The excellent medical police and legislation how
ever 40 worthy OF imitation IN the older settled Stat
for IN no other part of the word is The scknow
ledged moral power the physical respected AMI
sup ortei-clam Iariiouiot meniion. BY at
The l"gisa passed IN 1920, and mot rIoidl,
enioic no pefson Is allowed 10 practice medicine ~
he urD nsta mol etar