The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1853-08-10
yellow Fewer in New Orleans.

Yellow Fever in New Orleans.
Fhe daily report bring sad accounts oi
! the ravages Of this epidemic in the Ores,
cent City A correspondent of The New
York Tribune, under date Of July 23d,
says:
The Howard Association have been
obliged 10 appeal tonKiya,e charity for
funds having failed anything from
the ciiv. - uhnekmaking
collections ios of our
physicians have 9indly ofefeSr their gra-
! iuilous services to The Howard Association,
and no doubt The balance Of our city ply
sicians will do likewise. Twenly.seven
apolhccaries have been selected where the
poor can obtain medicines,
In private practice. the fever is %increas-
ing, and they die Sc fast that hearses can
not be had for all. and they have 10, take
cabs to convey some of the dead TO The
burial grounds. Those who die in the
Charity Hospital are Put in rough pine box
es made at the Work House. and are TAX
en- 10 Potcr's Field in carts, seven being
a load for one horse and cart. | yesler-
day saw seven loads go out of the llospi-
tai,
Most of those who die in the Hospital
have no friends and are buried BY the city.
The ship Queen Victoria is coming up
the River loaded with poor immigrants;
and if they are permitted to land, every
one will be dead in a weeks time. Our
population now is very small, and The Fe.
yer has moi many subjects TO feed upon,
and will o o run hi unless new food Is
given il. When we take into consider
alton the small number Of persons liable TO
The Fever, the present sickness is uupar.
alleled. The number Of deaths of Yellow
Fever in the Hospital for the week ending
Friday night, was 100.
Since writing The above | have been 10
the Hospital. They have no report made
up since Friday night, but stated there
were about so dellhs The last two days.
A young man in the office informed me
the number for "a hours was about 40.
that he was then making out certificates
for some 80 who were In the dead house,
and that they died so fast he had To make
Out imperfect certificates for want Of time.
| saw several poor fellows admit ed who
will never so out again alive. Weather
very unldvorable.
The same correspondent, July &c, says:
The Secretary Of The Howard Associa-
lion informs me they have about four hun
dred under treatment; over one'half of the
cases terminate fatally-some in four To
eight hours after they are first taken. The
Cries of Nalchez and Vicksburg have es.
lablished guarantees. All persons from
New Orleans, or who have been there
within five days, are 10 be detained sever.
ally Two hours at the Quarantine Wharf
boat. Then their baggage is tn be opened
and aired len hours, aud should there be
yellow fever on the boat taking The pas
sengers are to be detained five days or
longer. All goods packed in This city are
to be opened and aired ten hours.
The Delta says:
1t is with deep sorrow and pain that we
feel bound To admit that yellow fever pre-.
walls in this city to an extent equal, il not
surprising almns, any previous year of its
history. According 10 the report Of the
Charity Hospital fcr-4Ae t%wen'y.four
hours on Thursday, a larger number of
deaths have occurrel from this disease,
than have, perhaps ever before died or
been ,cpdried in the same time. The
dea,,hs during the week before last, at the
Hospital, when the Frcstnce of an cpl,
demic had not NV admitted, showed
nearly as large a number a. o''H's' :" :.
= establishment dsring any wee"
of of The, heI wear lsl7,-,Ne last o great Epidemic
which visited our city. IN q pa,eTfnns
the returns, as published in IL a." 10
amazed and shocked al the contract.
tina, year the fever commenced Its cafc''
about the same time it has this, bet pro-
crossed much slower.