New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-09-08
The EeYer Mt Rondout.

perfuous TO say any thing more concerning the
disease at Rondout. But in justice TO the inte-
gent clergyman, whose note we published day
or two since, and as giving clearer statement
than we have elsewhere seen of the prevalence Of
the disease, we publish the following letter from
the same source II will be seen that the writer
comedies with others in declaring that the disease
has now disappeared:
RospoUr, Wednesday, Sept. 9Th, 1913
To the Editor Of the Tribune
Ny hasty note which appeared your Tuesday paper,
rot intended Tor publication it would have been
more carefully expressed merely wished you say that
would be well for physicians, experienced in Yellow
Fever 10 visit Rondout, many intelligent persons living
there thought that il had been brought among them BY the
Wanda But my imperfect statement printed in con-
necou with several urfounded rumors winch calcuia
ted TO make wholly wrong impression ask the privilege
OF small space give accurate account have been
able TO gain.
!. TIE F.crs-Ths Wanda arrived at RoGlou, on Mon
dsy the 18th That evening her Captain taken sick
and pronounced i'll Of typhus fever by doctor and Of
bilious fever by another. The taken sick the
same day with much the symptoms, though slish;e
George Wells passenger ckened fes days after with
apsrentlv the same disease These all recovered after
we're treatment. Bailey, the North River pilot who
up wi; the Wanda down the river again, and returned
IN the steamboat fell sick took her down the river and died
at Quarantine. By affidavit o! George Wells, II appears
that the first mate died St. Martins Guadalupe OF t.
phus fever as it said that seaman and the steward
were left more or less sick Quarantine Mr.. Fields the
slpercargo, by his account, severely i'll also at
Guadaoupe OF fever and returned home in another vessel
The Wanda no6red the dock opposite Daviss store
having open upon her deck quantity Of pneapples de-
caying condition, which sold for very small
given away the attraction of which drew many persons on
board the vessel The Vandas cargo Of salt discharged
in part of the building where the Nesrs Davis have their
store who received upon their floor and sold
large number OF the pneapples Lowell, Igshman who
worked in unloading the salt, taken sick Monday
the 2ls aud died after vomiting copiously coiee-ground
matter. Joseph Davis and Calvin Davis the keepers OF the
where the salt and PneaPples were discharged Tell
sick ore on the 20;h the other the 25th and recovered
t. r. Beyier's store Messrs Davss The bowsprt
of the Wanda front OF it. Richard heaen his clerk
who slept in the store taken sick the 9TH aud died
after vomiting though largely coiee-sFound matter
Abe. Eaton another clerk Of Mr.. Beyers, who also SLEPT
in the store and frequently board of the Wanda SICK
ened and after very illness and escape
now recovering William G.. Moorr's Mr.. B.
yers few rods from the Vanda. He taken sick
the loh and recovered A. Mddagh Is next but
one TO Moores. Hiram o. Jessup his ceik, who slept
the store about w. hundred feet from the Wanda Ia
ken sick on the 18th, aad died his declared, Of the
black vomt. Marvin J. Merchant, second clerk OF Mr.
Nddagh who also slept the store, sickened on the Doth
and recovered George Garfield, the thlrj clerk OF Nj
disc who also slept the taken sick, ard
died September 18th. having scvere henofaSe Isaac b.
Crum Nir. Brealss' foreman at T. llodei's shop little
back from Moores store George Lore, who lived over
Alessrs Abbeys shop the strand close by; Mr. Coive
whose store is nearly opposite Mr. Hudcr' Nh Marx
painter who sleeps back of Beye5 store had also the SICK
ness and recovered William Harris died the day
with Jessup August IS. He had been in Rondout fort
night, out of work. and ouuging the dock, though he
SAID he never entered the vessel He vomed very freely
black and offensive These facts were told 10 me by
the people in whose house he boarded and died strong
u, asserted that TWO canal boys who had been board he
yanda and had pneappes died Elenvc about the
18th.
To sum up the facts then: Eight cases OF sickness unde
naby among those who either hands, onces
or passengers on board the Wanda Fifteen persons with
arp,rently the same disease, Rondout, of whom five
viz Lare Keates,, Jessup, Harris and Campheld-died,
the FIRST four Of them having vomed black coffee
ground matter last having hemorhase Adding
to these Eve deaths at Rondout that of Mr. Bailey the
Quarantine aud the Elenye, we have eight deaths
Of those who had this sickness.
H. lNrfREycEs.-Allow me draw from these facts one
or two differences. There TO be but three probable
causes FOR this sicknessl General nsalubry of Rondout
> Some local source Of this disease; B. The Wanda y
word on each: Rondou with the exception OF diseases
among children very healthfu town, much so as any
one on the River One its Oldest inhabitants told me that
in eighteen wears he had known prevalence OF bilious lever
here excep, that in 1899 there of fever and
arue With the exception Of Influenza am crcdbly IN
formed the town was healthy until Aug. II, when the Vaa
! h.. THAT ,rnir
are not SO partial select young strong men living upon
an omen wharf and leave unvsed the densey peopled
crowded dirty parts Of Epidemics ditlusiye
But the neghborhood has sickness terminating fatally
like ths and in Rondou, the have all beenin SPOT
Some local cause then, must be assigned
. What local cause for this sickness there? In space
OF some 900 feet diameter 300 az the outside occurred
some dozen and cases including Harris who upon
the docks and had the symptom VIZ black vomit.
Has disease prevailed there be!ofe7 No These young
clerks and Others nave always slept in these with i'm
nuni,v ill Aug. Something has been said about Of
pile Of cides. believe that hides always found
wherever yellow evers appear II is TO be remarked IN
laon 10 those referred 10 that they had been the dock
from Nav and thai ;hey mostly removed, ii entire
ly before the vanda arrival But what had the Captain,
Mate Passenger and Pilot 30 with hides Rondou2-
Their sickness originated in the Wanda.
g. As regards this vessel, when slider that eight
persons board or less S!c two OF whom dled
and that every one who sick and died Rondout
either upon this vessel aad that frequently IN all
probability and finally that her appearance aud that of ht
sickness were cotempoaneou be granted that ,hele
strong reason suspect her The cause Of this fever be
what it may AT all will not be prudent in
future TO keep at Quarantine vessels whose arrival may be
accompanied by such trOndJM condolences Of bilious
renittents aud tlauensGs
With the exception OF Mr. Jesups brother had led
to the superstition that this disease has been pfopagae b!
con,asoa from ; sick persons believe there no new
cases unless that Dr. s who exhausted fatigue Il
be one Does MOI this rapid wearing OUT Of the disease
complete the chain argument linking it witt, the Wanda
nav hazard conjecture ii is that this sickness has