Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-09-09
Yellow Fever at New Orleans.-Doings OF the How
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he New Orleans Bee OF the 25d ult, furnishes
the following detailed account OF the dongs OF the
Howard Association, who are the distributors OF the
funds raised for the relief OF the destute through
out the Union:
AS the Howard Association, on account OF its Pc
culiar organizations the rare and noble devotion OF
its members, and the intrepid constancy with which
they labor for the mitigation of human suffering
has attracted universal attention and elected the
warmest encomium and as moreover this Associa-
ton has recently been made the recipient of large
and liberal donations from all quarters we have ia
ken some pains to arrive at the nature and extent of
its operations The weekly returns of the active
members of the Howard Association are entered up
on the books of the Secretary. BY consulting that
authority. we have been enable to gather the an-
Number of patients treated from July 10th to
August Goth, inclusive 80. ...............45 $50
Discharged cured ............. ..........2 .201
Died Observation-Disclosures. 1913
Under treatment 1870
Those under treatment, include many patients
who have been sent 10 the different Infirmaries
Hospitals after having been attended at their resi-
dences during the ins piency of the disease. Many
of these have been discharged in good health.
At the out set of the endemic the Howard Asso-
citation appointed number of druggists in conven
lent parts of the cifv and accented the medical SER
vices of those physicians whose names appear in the
various newspapers. This limited number soon
found entirely nadeouate to The constantly increas
ing necessities of the Association The scourge
spread in every drecton-hundreds ofindigent sick
were daily added to the lists of those under the care
of the Society," and the attention of the medical gen.
tlemen who had been ORIGINALLY annointed was I'M
remttinclv required to the entire sacrifice of their
private practice The Association therefore adop-
ted measures TO secure mart of the time of most of
the physicians in our city, and at present. nearly
three hundred members of the Faculty are authori-
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citation In CARRYING ont this axtanded nlan the So
cietv has found il necessary tn nrovde horses and
| vehicles to ahont tbirtv nbvs;c;ans
The infermaries established nv the Board of Heal,h
| for the use- of the Ho1vard Association contain
| No T. 0. 1O0 natients
| No o - do
No on do
400
Each infermarv &c attonaod h1 two nhvs;c;ans
and l6 nurses and servants are emnloved ut an OK
nensn of from Gao to clo NV n.ortb ooocb
+ The Ornh,n Asvlnn, aStat1;shod IN Hovio streot
I and afavetta Inv The Roard hono found too con.
tracted for the nronor Observation-Disclosures of thp;r in
motoo +bo 1otton t1: 1co ..o 49, d
| 400 +ronsforrad - snno;a'o t,;Ia;' :; Enrobon
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