Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-08-22
- The yellow Fever at Norfolk and
Portsmouth 1ET =,

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1.-THE yellow Fever at Norfolk and
Portsmouth. ~ 10.
The Petersburg Express has the sinh.
joined intelligence from Portsmouth and
Norfolk - :
PoRTsMouTn, Thursday, August 9.
The yellowteyer still ravages in our com
munity, although it is estimated that nm
to this period fully 5000 persons have
LEFT town. For one or two DAYS past, the
deaths have been about twelve per diem.
with an increase in the number Of patients.
think, however, that the disease is not
SO bad to day, as 1 have not heard of
many new cases. To-day am acting as
n member of the SANITARY committee. and
have written about ten permits for the
naval hospital, including those given bv
the physicians. Half Of these, perhans,
nave been sick several days. although, 1
believe, with one or two exceptions. only
this day medical aid has been called in.
The disease is confined to no locality,
but in my opinion, extends to every part
of Portsmouth. When taken in connec
ton with the mortality, the infrcquency
OF the disease or bad state of preparation
to meet 1t. the alarm it has created, and
the immense numbers who have fled. I
question If any community has been more
badly scourgcd and afflicted. The whole
surrounding country is overrun-private
houses, barns, kitchens, churches. school
houses, tents, cabins. (and the Lord only
knows what other kinds of shelter, are
all crRmmed.
Since writing the above, some twelve
or fifteen cases have occurred, Of which l
have just been informed.
The FEVER AT NORFoLK.-I am sorry
to add that our sister city-sister in utI1ic~
ton as we'll as locality-is suffering with
US, and, fear, to q greater extent. |
had feared all along that if the disease
was not cradicatcd there before il had
time to spread it must prevail to an al
farming extent. Such learned this
morning was in fact the case. A gentle
man informed me to-day that he vas at
lis store last night, when he was in.
formed that there were sixty cases il the
Pest House. The same gentleman told
nc that they had erected one or two
tents by the Pest House, aud had still 20
enlarge or make other arrangements.
They contemplated at first the occupation
of the Fair Grounds. but objections being
raised. they determined to secure the
Race Field buildings. and, have, under
stand, succeeded.
gentleman from Hampton, who saw
Il friend from Portsmouth Yesterday
morning .infurms us that there were twenty
deaths rom fever in Norfolk on yesterday.
and >eveu in Portsmouth, The number
OF new cases our informant could not as
certain.
1t was reported on Friday, on good au-
thOrIty, tina! two or three Cases OF yellow
fever had been manifested among the
refugees at Hampton. which created such
panic that the steamer, Coffee. full Of
passengers. was ordered off and not per-
mitted to land.
The Richmond Dispatch says:
Mr.. Robert West, well known citizen
Of Portsmouth, died at Hampton, on
Thursday; on Friday, Mr., Nathaniel
SOrey, an old citizen of Norfolk, died,
after protracted illness.
The Baltimore steamers have again
commenced coming up to the quarantine
ground at Portsmouth, and there receiv-
ing passengers from the ferry-boat.
The Express, to show that yellow fc-
yer is not contagious, states that among
the first victims at Portsmouth, was
young married man, and that three of his
young friends volunteered to attend on
him. in company with his wife. They
were with him day and night. for week,
rs was also the Rev. Thomas Hume. The
Express adds
% During the last stages Of the disease,
and after that unerring precursor Of the
monster had made its appearance, (thc
black vOmit, } the patient was frequently
seized with spasrns, during which the
nauseous discharge would flow spontane-
ously from the mouth, completely covers
ing those who waited at his bedside.
The Minister of God, to hear the respon-
Ses to questions propounded, was COM
PEELED to place his ear in close proximity
TO the patients mouth, his voice having
become SO feeble that he could not artic-
ulate above whisper. The distressed
and heart-stricken wife embraced the dis
eased body of her husband, kissed again,
and again his burning cheek, and bathed
his swarthy brow with scalding tears"
On the 9th ult., the man died, and
not one of the Eve persons who attended
him, has taken the fever, or experienced
the slightest indisposition.