Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-08-06
Yellow Fever !. New Orleans.

| Yellow Fever IN New orleans
We received yesterday four New Orleans mails
and copy from the Bee of the 29th-the latest date
received the following notice Of the Fever in that city
The FkvER-As the Fever Is the all pervading topic,
We shal be pardoned for recurring TO IL frequently
| than generally 10 to the same theme. Within the
last day two tho disease has unquesonaby extended
beyond the limited boundaries which appeared at first TO
hedge ts ravages After desolating the small home
steads and squsd novels of the Fourth and upper part
the First District Il has spread below these points We
hear Ct fatal in the lower part Of the First District IL
Poydras street. the Market in Carondelet Baronne
and other Below Canal street. the number OF its
victims yet inconsderable Inte gent physicians in
fine practice inform that the Second District continues
sngusry free from the Epidemic and that the Third
suffers but little in COMPARISON with the First and Fourth
Why this should be, Ma problem will not attempt to
solve. IL is characteristic Of all epidempc diseases to
break out in the dirties sections of city, where haba
tons crowded together, and where muudes Of per-
sons dwell beneath the roof In such localities
these disorders find abundant material for their propsga
ton Poor people seldom particularly nice about their
persons-and Of them nure their constitution and
impair their strength by habtna indulgence in spuous
liquors These among the earliest subjects Of cp-
idemc and they contribute largely swell the bills Of
mosality IL is not necessary to adopt the theory Of
filth being the generator of yellow Fever to for
appearance in these regions because experience and
observation prove that the residents
predposed to the disease Let the Of the epidemic
be what may they the first To feel its power.
curious fact about the Fever this year is that ii
thus far almost confined European immigrants of the
lowest classes During previous vsations scarcely per
manent resident OF city but could mention the
OF friend friends who had fallen victims the pes
thence. This is the present Every body ad
mits the existence the Feverthe daily and weekly bull
etins of death record the fghtful devastation IL is
mitting-yet there few indeed who point iu
dvdua examples of the disease occurring amidst their
circles. The sufferers mostly obscure and un-
known. This should not of course, abate jot of
patty, diminish the efforts OF the community IN their
behalf On the contrary they friendess helpless
and impoverished their claims the benevoence of the
public reality greater, than if they were more
fortunately situated The rich take Of themselves
they lack otcous servitors and eager medical
endauce-but the poor, If neglected perish They
command aid and forced rely on the charity
of kind hearted and disinerested citizens We are mere.
~ however recording fact Of which the moral is suh
cienty obvious
1t is nevertheless highly probable that the disease will
ere long, fasen its grippe upon who deem themselves
secure from its avages Ii would be Unprecedented aud
anomalous continue has begun. Doubtless
when has exhausted all the aliment il can find among
the poor, will discover victims elsewhere One obsa
Gle to its progress in new direction-and the only one
know OILS the absence of Fights of those
unaccmated. We have never seen such veritable
stampede the epidemic has occasoned Thousands
who bad lived among Us for six eight years-who had
passed unscathed through the Fever of lS4T-and
consider themselves proof against its attacks
have taken the alarm and scampered away with the most
commendabc attention TO their safety. We do not
think New Orleans has been completely deserted
by her merchants and professional she i. now
hasy trip TO of the watering places across the Lake
enables us TO form approXmatye idea OF OF
this abSenteeiSm There probably twenty thousand
residents of New Orleans on the Lake shores Al the
Bay OF St Louis, Pass Christian, Mississippi City, Biloxi
&c the Hotels througed, while private dwellings
in the greatest possible demand Add this the meal
culabe number which have left for the North and West;
and it will not be difficult to understand why the Fever
carries of so few OF what termed 1.-THE better classes
Those who compelled TO remain will no doubt in due
time have TO stand the brunt of its assaults.
The physicians the type Of the disease Is somewhat
less malignant than at rst and that they manage it
when taken in time We presume that Yellow Fever is
as durable other disorders IL medical assistance be i'm
medaely procured. During the first week or two of an
epidemic most OF the terminate fatally because they
occur among those who ignorant of the symptoms OF
the disorder and claiming the attention of the
faculty, until the disease has completely developed itself
Unfortunately, it il then, in majority OF instances Too
LATE Hospital practice is the possible test of the
type OF the epidemic TNothrds of those who enter the
Hospital never think OF going there until they past
covery Many, as we learn, taken 10 the Hospital IN
dying condition. But In private practice with prop
care aud attendance, Yellow Fever will be found more
Malignant and the per centage of mortality will not be
greater this year, than during previous visitaons A,
least so say several enlightened and experienced physi
eians-and they ought to know.
To THE FARNERs.-we have been assured by Mes,rs
Deane Brown Commission Merchants Of city, aud
10y Others that is Of great inpor affecting the in.
teres of the farmer that they be careof the condition
in which they deliver their Whe in this market aud
that they be especially particular in separating the
iDrou,el from the uninured the mllers will not pur
chase Wheat in which there ia .prou. or which is not