New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-11


object for which the Board Of Health has been estab-
shed for this city endeavored to show in m comu,u-
neaton Of the th instant that should with the ex.
cepton Of the presiding officer b. composed only msd
cal gentlemen, whose learning experience energy and
distinguished position in the community would command
the confidence and respect of all that with such an
organization of the Board of Health Medical Police
Of the city there remain longer single doubt
that ample means will be promptly afforded by the State
and Municipal authorities, for the completion Of the
noble enterprise upon which their abors would then be
engaged and with the encouraging hope the pleasing
prospect Of placing the sanitary condition Of New Or
leans permanently in favorable comparison with the
health of any other city in the United states
OF the intelligence and public spirit Of our State and
city predicate most hearty and liberal support-the
certain success of this great and paramount
with such aid and assurance it will be reasonably
peced from the Board medical philosophers and
ters Of the science of medicine that they point out the
causes epdemics and the means of removing them
with almost the certainty that Engineer or eur
City Surveyor can the danger Of the Levee
and how to stop it. if it should To this degree
exactness however it is to be regretted that medical
science has not yet and, perhaps will attain But
notwithstanding the Board may have at it's command
tests delicate as to enable it to demonstrate With the
mathematical certainty of the sciences the phys-
cal properties of the subtle Of epidemic dsease
standard by which may be determined with nearly
Lutte certainty these sbstruse and difficult questions in
dcal eology and that standard derived from epe.
risnce and obsardtion.
Agreeaby to this standard the ablest Medical Commits
sioners at home and abroad have after great labor ex
tensye research and close observation satisfied them
selves and reported with marked and extraordinary
nimy that the proximate cause of cholera for
is morbid humidity and atmospheric mpurity-local
iin,iv
lers originating from the unwsshed and peculiarly filth
condition Of the locality whence spring the 4tee naor
constituting the remote Of cholera yellow fever
the may be With these reports, I am well con
vnced the experience and observation Of the medica
profession Of this place perfectly concident Indeed
well informed persons believe that cholera an,
yellow fever both native and to the born
resulting from the wicked infraction of fixed sani
arylsw of nature wherever either may found to exist
whether in Philadelphia or in New Orleans Nor can
why we should not be capable of producing eithe
cholera yellow fever in the United States have we
climate and extent and variety Of territory soc
condition of almost infinite susceptbites the aunexi
ton of Cuba only being to make up the defci
| We are wonderful people, progressive producin
people hard to beat at any thing Then why ascribe
Asia the exclusive production and importation of choer
among u.s. Why go to Vera Cruz, Rio, to the Coas
Of Africa for the origin Of yellow fever Why direct
public mind distant countries for tine discovery of h
of those diseases and the establishment of obsolet
guarantees guard us from their Importation whi
they. unrestrained exist in midst There is dar
ger in the Pharasaicsl doctrine, that holr thG
thou athst these vile diseases do originate amor
but brought from foreign countries There is
self righteousness in all this that has hitherto and
does prevent the from being laid at the Il
tree" Then let honestly cast the fatal beam from
own eye, and shall not fail to abundant
tha 0f amid spica af hana h- "
them will learn how to apply the proper remedy for h
removal will then clearly discover that by well appoint
Board of Health with ample means and authority, Il
great and paramount object can be accomplished But
would not underwrite for the Board with its present
ganzaton it will not cannot effect any uset
| purpose but will undertake to that NewC
leans may be made, by proper and efficient system
Internal medical police, healthy city and that too, wit
out invoking the e1enai imaginary aid of commercial
personal restrictions in the absurd form of quarsnt
regulations They would prove inappropriate al
useless the prevention Of yellow in Neworlear
when crowded with dense and ermenting population
| unaccimated immigrants. under burning sun, tn
would if established board Of over-crowied filth
and III ventilated ship in order to prevent ship fever
want in either cleanliness pure air and fl
| ventilation Give these, and will venture to
that there is epidemic, either land sea, in sh
cities that may not be speedily dispersed certain
| prevented. But quarantine mischievous in
effects dsregards these vital consderstions-it dive
the public mind from the real to imaginary causes
having its eye bndly fixed on foreign Of inf
ton it cannot the dangerous aecumulatng cause
which it encourages at home until according to their
gree Of concentration, desolatiug epidemic suddei
breaks out among the people Quarantine, therefore,
not only useless but perncious institution. Englai
after most careful and patient investigation has aba
doned it and e1ults with the honor of being the " f
to set the advantageous example to other nations
should everywhere be abandoned, but more especia
by us who claim to be progressire people, moral
and only regarded hereafter in the same category
the ridiculous practice of burning glHporder tar BAN
and Puchal trOmer, for the prevention dispersion
epdemics.
In my next, will undertake to show, in part, how
| may be made healthy city. Yours CESc
| THr FRASELiS MoSuMENr,-On the evening of the
meeting printers authors editors reporters publish
and others held in Philadelphia, for the purpos'
taking action upon the proposition to erect monum
to benjamin Franklin. Jesper Harding Esq, ediioi
the Inquirer, chosen President. The following
amble and resolution, which We copy from the NO
O American, were adopted
nuhjshers. authors and others connec