The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1853-09-22

In eltner, ana II is doubtful II even {
case of the kind has been seen withir
their limits. 0
The city of Natchez, which prevj
onsly TO 1889 was dreaded equally with
New Orleans. on the score of yellow
fever, established quarantine abou
that time; since which, until this sum
mer, there has never been an epldem
ic there, nor single case of yellow fe
yer that could not be traced to direct
importation from some place already
infected, or 10 infection from such i'm.
portation. And as regards the appear.
ance of yellow fever there this summer
the first intimation of the fact, which
reached US through the papers, was
coupled with the information that all
the first cases were recent arrivals
from this city. am Informed, upon
what | deem reliable authority, that
long before the Natchez quarantine
(which is not in operation except du-
ring sickly season here) was re-estab-
llshed there this summer, a number OF
cases of yellow fever were landed there
from steamboats, from this city, and
conveyed to the hotels and boarding
houses. The information that yellow
fever exists at Natchez, at this time,
would, in the absence of everything
explanatory of its origin, lead US to sup
pose that It's quarantine regulations
had either been neglected or evaded.
But the admissions of the newspapers
of that city that the disease originated
with people from New Orleans, proves
this.
1t is well Known that hundreds OF
cases of yellow fever have been de-
tanned at the quarantine stations of
New York and Philadelphia since 1922,
and that large number of the attend
ing physicians, nurses, etc, there, have
from time TO time, contracted the dis
ease. In the year 1889 there were at
one time, 19 cases of yellow fever at
the Quarantine Hospital on Staten Isl
and. On a previous occasion, the num-
Der of cases at the same place, do
ring one month, was 90, of which 81
died, IA of black vomit. This at once
attestS the wisdom of restriction. and
the terrible consequences which wonld
have so frequently followed It's absence.
There is hardly a seaport on our coast,
from Portland in Maine to Galveston in
Texas, inclusive, where yellow fsver
has not prevailed at one time or an
other. The principal of these, in-
GLIDING New York, Philadelphia. Balti-
more, Norfolk, Charleston, Mobile and
New Orleans, have been frequently
and fearfnlly visited. Those who have
adopted sufficient quarantine regula-
tions have thenceforward been secured
from the sickness; while those who
have neglected the means of preserv-
ing themselves. continue to suffer the
dreadful consequences of their neglect.
No one visitation of this kind has
ever occurred in any port or place in
the United States, that with all the
facts before us, could not be clearly
traced to communication with some
pot or place to which it had been COM
municated.
If, as is contended, the disease origl-
mates from marsh miaSm, decomposed
matter, etc, like causes
would produce like effects in cities re-
mote from the great avenues of COM
merce. but possessing the supposed ad-
ditional prerequisites of the disease,
high temperature. But we find that
while Portland, Me-, Boston, Mass,
New Haven, CT, New York, PhiIadel-
phia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah,
Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans, and
a large number of intermediate ports
on our sea board have been frequently
decimated by yellow fever, such ISL
and cities as Augusta, Me-, Concord,
N. H., Salem, Mass, Hartford, CT, AL
bany, Utica, Rochester, Buffalo, N. Y,
Trenton, N. j., Lancaster and Harris
burg, Pa, Washington, D. c., Rich
mond and Williamsburg, Va, Raleigh,
N. c., Milledgeville, Geo, and thou
sands of other populous towns, similar
Iy secured by local position from the
reach of the infection, have yet to ex-
perience the horrors of such a vista
lion. In like manner, while since the
year 1917, yellow fever has been COM
from this city to the towns
On the waters of the Mississippi and
The Ohio as far up as ST. Louis and
and has existed epidemical-
y in nearly all of them below the
mouth of the Ohio, the cities of Day.
ou, O., Fredericksburg, Va, Lexington,
KY, Indianapolis, Ia, Springfield, Ill,
Nashville, Tenn, Jackson, Miss, and
he numerous thriving cities and towns
n the interior of these States, have
lever experienced the disease.
Yellow fever is endemical only in
hose places where ice never appears,
,r where a temperature of 320 Far. is
never experienced. As remarked by
Or. Monette, :" it may be transported,
ike some tropical plants, to more
lorthern climate; but the frosts of our
winters will utterly destroy it, and it
must be annually renewed. Without
his annual transplanting or renewal in
'ur climate it would die and become
,xtinct. But the constant communi-
:ation with intertropical ports serves
o keep up the annual supply of this
,xotic"
And herein is adduced one of the