The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-09

From the Picsyune. July 3O.l


great There is slight falling of in the Aggregate Of
es yea esterday from those OF the day b
the pestilepce One favorable sign reported by the phy
scians that the disease Is anaQeable than ct
the numbers attacked aud the medical trsstment is
more successful On the other hand the area of the dis
ease has spread ITSELF 1t still mainly confined TO the
districts where IL broke and has been most fatal
Dut cases are now occurring in other pats of the city
net many, but enough show that the pestilentia n
repcs Il diapersirg itsef over places hithorto
Some cases have occurred In the lower part Of this dis
trct near Canal street 1t is remarked ho sever that
potwithbtandng the great number Of the sick aud the
greatness Of the mortality indca ting the violence Of the
epidemic physicians having the largest practice IN the
that while the daily list Of deaths reaches hundred
Few ptrsors that We meet designate than
heard OF ss having been attsckei 7, j. the
Of epdemics that attacks the obscure and unaccmn
d stranger the emgrsnt and the laborer who not
only most exposed to attack by their tciisome occupa
tons in the and rain and in spots where malaria Ia
generated but are least able TO lie in the early stage
OF the fever to call In skful medical advice employ
and by dnt of careful thus to weahsr
the attack For the most part TOO they congreaate
damp and un wholesome places and what with ex sure
demic.
The remarkable health enjoyed By this city for several
past and the great influx Of laboring immi.
grants caused by the projection public works. aud the
search for employment upon them have accumulated au
unusual number Of poor abrIeIs and these have fur
Dished the principal material foI the mortality which
has been recorded During pre- yious epidsmc vera
classes in New Orleans This explains In part the vast
dspropotion between the gross number Of deaths and
the number OF rick who are known to our citizens at
large The csss Of those liable to attack who koown
residents IT, morevsr exceedingly small Before there
spy apprehension of fever the general remark
thai this city upcommonly thin, that had
many residents gore off summer tours. Since the
alarm the number Of travellers has increased vastly
and the departures continue The stock Of food for fever
those who may be set down as an uuaccmated paying
class for the doctors is getting to be small to
count very ineligibly for the few Of sickness
arY,An u-Itn mat
titled to draw any assurance OF exemption from the
scarcity Of cases. considering khe scarcity of subjects
aging at present for mitigation Of the epidemic except
from dminuton of subjects, or great and favorable
can be made. Wins. duty and humanity enjon is pa
tier under the acton the Of every exertion pub
lie and private to remove or counteract all the inaa-
ease the prsctice Of all Christian Kindness and charity to
the sick and especially to the destitute SICK with
kindly charities and mutual good Offices wait hopefully
[From the New Orleans Delta. August ]
Tho bls Of mortality tell their own story-and fright.
full 1t is When we remember that half the unaccl
mated have left the city and that this class OF popu
lston is reduced ~ probably less than fifty thou sand
souls daily record OF hundred deaths Is fear
full thing to contemplate We take it that the scioss
in meeiciIe and chatterers about words will
the fever epidemic. When a disease carries Off
more than one per cent week Of the population sub
be er%ed and that wt%ou suv
curious display Of genealogical science in investigating
the precie derivation of the term but taking 1t in its
ordinary and well understood accsptation.
From the. evidence before US, conclude that the
fever is gradually widening its 1t is to be
counteIed wherever the unsccimated abound, though
still most Of the fatal In the Third and Fourth
districts 1t cannot continue much longer at the pitch
Of intensity which marks II. Every day Witnesses
the departure Of hundreds whom terror at the unparaL
leled mortality drives away. In few days. all who
not seasoned to the climate and who possibly quit
the city, will have left The pestience must then abae
for want Of fuel There Is another chauee for Epi
denies De Invariably rpa certain course. They have
sEeir ps''cs Ct conmencement increase, climax, and
gradual decline and disappearance. They last from six
to Zine weeks Aesdv the fever has been amongst us
The Of July not sarsr we ~ ths ons
feel msderste confidence thati N leafs Va ~ Wv w
Of August.
lntetmsnts in all the cemeteries of the city. tor the
twentyfour hours ending at O'Clock A. NJ the 30th
uit yellow fever, 126 other diseases 49, total lbA
lnerments In all the cemeteries of the city for the
twsn,- four hours ending at o'clock p on Sunday
3ist u yellow fever, l37 other diseases 20 total
1b7
TIE foIcrro II report of ntermeuts In the city for
the week erdirg yesteaay Sunday morning. the slst
ult at O'Clock A. M-To interments. SSo Of which
the deaths from yellow fever wen W.
On the 10th July, Francois Nicolas Mosvn, sx cspiaia
of the U. S. army, aged 80 years.