New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-05
yellow Fever at Portsmouth and NortOlk.

The pestilence continues it's awful ravages In
| these afflicted places. There is no abatemenk
in the werk of death. From the Baltimore
American, of tae 29th, We take the subjoined
sad record M
DR.. j. Morris returned to this city Yesterday
morning from Norfolk, whittier he had been for
several days, and represents the condition Of
the city as.deplorable in the extreme There
are more physicians IN Norfolk he says than
are necessary, but there is great want of
nurses, which it seems impossible to obtain.
All the physicians Of the city are attending to
their business, but there is now no one to direct
the affairs of the city, or to enforce sanitary
regulations. Mayor Woods died on Sunday last,
which left the city government without head
there is no quorum Of the City Council, or
Board OF Health, nor rs there any one to sttend
to anything, except the Howard Association,
and the whole time of that body is absorbed in
distributing food to the population. The scenes
witnessed by DR.. Morris, while in Norfolk, he
says are indescribable. The stores are all
closed, the mar ket houses deserted, and out of
population of twenty thousand, there are only
about eight thousand left, Of which number
there are only three thousand white Dr. Ne.
visited family Oh Sunday last, and found the
wife lying in dying condition on the bed, and
the husband with black vomit on the floor, with
out friend to attend them. or q nurse to adj
minister the necessary medicine. He made an
effort to procure nurse for them, but could
not, and when he left they were both in the
agonies of deaths During the illness of Mayor
Woods there WAS not ctizen of Norfolk at
his residence, and on the last night of his life
two of the physicians remained with him. So
great has been and continues the mortality that
the people look at it and talk of it with sppa-
for the death of patient as surely as thew are
attacked
In the midst of this distress, those who own
vehicles for public use have taken advantage of
the times, and refuse TO physicians their carri-
ages, except at rates which the Howard
Association cannot pay. DIR. NJ. states that
the malaria is such that all the people, even
those who are apparently healthy, look saliow,
and their eyes partake of yellow hue. There
are but few people to be seen in the streets. ex-
| cept those who have charge Of the hearses, aud
| the physicians who are constantly going. lt is
| impossible for any one to form any proper idea
of the distress which prevails, and even those in
comfortable circumstances are obliged to obtain
their supplies from the Howard Association,
| there being no other means ot procuring it.
| In Portsmouth there are better regulations,
the authorities standing at their posts and doing
| all they can to relieve the afflicted. The citys
has been divided into seven districts, each OF
which has its own phy sieians, and the patients
are made more comfortable than in Norfolk
The epidemic RACES quite as severely as ever,
though it has assumed a less malignant form
and yields more readily to medical treatment.
The average number Of deaths is about twenty
per day. and the number of new cases are as
great per day as they have been at any time
since the epidemic broke out. DR. NJ stats
that he left because there were more physicians
than are needed, but the authorities cannot tell
those who are constantly arriving that they re-
quire no more medical help Many of the pbysi-
eians are young and inexperienced. though they
might be very effective as nurses. All the
people seem more or less indisposed-th the nalaria
4 which fills the atmosphere pro ausing q disagree
able fever in the Aead gHere is now no hops OF
arrestipg the ravages OF the disease, and 50
tthoroughly infected has become the elties . tnss
4 il will continue % rage until dspeled by frost,
there being nothing elsa Nhieh can stay It's pfo--
gress,