New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-19
DEATH by PEsTILENCE on SNIP BOARD.

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hIn: lie 6ria!o in tts days Jsibnc under tie heal
Of "Mo:ta.iiy among Emi-raus, and w.ch goa com
moDd 30 highly is at sample "f pDpnir reasoning aId
noTGIcc NJ on zeal utjocis. appreciate Gly
q interest sry eo hi,aed may 'eei apon tao SAB
i6d Of our GsuId taniIaTy laws ai sea- shore bat
wi en- facts denied anu absurd tAcOs OI5rcd
al explanation OF tie mortality oD ,ingciu shiJsnD mat
wlGt the authority may they shogii not b3 aoFel
e. pass without connection.
lvll not coIy bat iA,rl may be laws enough anil Ia
fIey uay be iid enough )cnfrce0 to IA s0s manure
JTcvCn; fciL,s5 omgIaIt ships r. say thf1 every
dip that gels clearance any of p)Fs OF Great
Lr.ain nlust give evidence nd.spil.bs Of bor sea
"voTiln'sf, have the yCGYtsc numb OF o
"to6d, tct.n number Of Venfiiltors, cooking galley
"Cf CrTcss<r ana NG;oT closet pfOpDroncd t. ti5
"Ler OF peIfos 'nftd with The number II sqlIrs 4. T.
lard amount and Bind Of provisions necessary % the
eaih e les-t ess 10 stand pledged for the en- yranf
sslm IN Tic face 81 ia,s 90 the contrary known every
ore who knows anything about tho matte. Ellag IA
tue u tho assertion dat le physician OF an emgraat
fbip IL sui tcoa eId tcrut > With regard 10 qli
lCdti0Is for his duut IA any way cacu1 el %
hat Cid. lie truth -. geat proportion 0i einyran
Flip Surgeons ere nihng more than Runaway ap)ao'ary
Iprorioes who take ho berth e. WORK heir passage
10 lie new country"
Now dis idea 81 afreok oCLod MR. from the eastward
40 tic banks Of newfoundland, Is sim.ly di,sui1us
What Ills amosl hefc conliion is not informed
hut assured that ia "poCuisy calculated 10 generate
oisee.t aud scarcely ever Ia Ing 10 DO so among the ia
Ccl ut ara tuv.
Il a fact worthy to be remembered ;ha' pas'snt,l
state oi the atmosphere yet known 10 exist
considerable disonco from the ~ pees0us coat -
well Known at New q leen- that the poison na' propl
Csos yellow fever VIII not live toreab thoopp,.ts shore
Of Agiers unet led there by some object cacul;el
rCibD H. and then il spreads only Icy being fo-tcred
slIs uey Icy at anchor in The harbor OF tho worst infected
city, ard fensin exempt from disease long ali com
mrnca,ion h the shore is strictly avoided.
cholera broke ont on the Philadelphia, her
Mnen ',o ,,rs ~ banana to Havana, aifb
sied t. pertilerid atmosphere from OIL ugi,v
but ouG lot have been more correct TO have assigned
10 the which produced the cholera the
is mus whore most of tho passengers hfi crossed mas
much az il apIeeied a. the sumo time at soa and se
tits well known that the cholera poi-on exists sometime
previous TO the development OF the disease G-p SCOT
once predicted the cholera in New YORK, several days be
fore a occurred. lie said that no could feel itn his
"s;tt,m" ~ tn,w nom experience thu premontory
Now Tor tie remedy We arc told tha lone table
spoonful Of common salt, and one teaspo 'niu OF
cayenne pepper in half glass OF warn wafer,
STAYED tho yioCac' when administered TO tho sick %
hoaid the chip Isaac Wright in 1919. This remedy l.
Wanted specific independent of tho "Gpproblion Of
"the faculty experience has aested it, efficacy
Pray LET me- ask your author what disease has this mod
ioaton pro, ed So sgn0iy beneficial He gives names,
exert the vague OF "postlence ana "pagie'-or
it sovereign remedy fr all diseases of pestlential
character
An article ~ wei written carries influence with it.
Your coEmondation adds still more Now observe the
effect ship sails with emigrants, yellow fever breaks
out and the ataD mbeIing what Capt Marshall did
proceeds to administer sGl and capsicum, but bis patients
die andh wonders Why he not successful On another
vessel typhus ship foyer appears and the captain hay
ing treasured up the mfalable prescription doses it out
doctors and what he supposes to be their remedy and
becomes tkCpticGl about all means for rolief
Salt was early tried in cholera bat unfortunately ssag
PATIENT IN this disease has been abunlany proved by
the faculty TO be quite different thing om curing
him
Cholera, yellow fever, hip fever may possibly be de
velcled on board ship, but generally the infection is
taken into il in latent state from the port from which the
vessel sails The condition in which human beings al
lowed between decks calculaiedto foster and
spread the poison of discase with more certainty than al
nost any other.
Emigranis usually become seasick, and confne them
selves in their berhs for many days together, actually
walowing in their vOmit. Tho atmosphere becomes poi
soned with reekng eSheetons from The surfaces of their
bodies and from their lungs Under these circumstances
they obtain little if any roarhment eithor from respra
ton or food IL they 20 deck they are immedia ~
chilled as literally the fires within them have gone out for
want of ue and thus they huidle together lay buried
in filthy clothing TO keep until finally the animal Vi
tally is nearly exhausted and they f victims of disease
as dead bodies go into a state of puirciaction.
Regulations 10 enforce cleanliness daily exposure to the
free air for least houis constant dres betw en- decks
nourslirg food and 20 prevent over cr0wdng ships arc
the best means TO prevent pestilence at sea.
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