New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-20
NEV-oRLEANS AND IT'S UNIrH0LE-
SORENESS
a. 70, las
A FEW STARTLING FACTS.
,,o,a.r-e Of The n. Y. TribGae.

attracted crest attention here, aud the newspaper
,ress are making violent replies The PicayREe has
a long article, and charges you with fsna1csm and
with an effort TO discourage immigration to and set e
ment in this city A. The PieayuHe says that tho'e
from long residence close observation and experience
have right to give an opinion, will now give you
few extracts from an address recently read by H.
Bsrttn NJ D. before the Academy Of Sciences in this
city. Dr.. B. says:
"Ths course p1rsusd BY city suthodss for great
years. has been e~pef IN he srse~e-never 70 ssanowese
thar there need for the csuerzns hsnd surgery Or
science the face Of annual ror'Iay eeetss gar re
e' eea'sd tss. s1e IN IiO sS a soa5se s.s
mainly attributed those who dssuHn9 ne cream OF hsSios
eIaTn.d the subject have been Instrumental IN FORMING
asserted The, New Oresos Of I've h1tief ei'e - as
Unia' which proved By an array OF esimonies ttcn
oobors by deriving tbs syesse age 81 destn oy ~euh
hen consrry Sinred int the public uurl Gusy Ass
5eoms kisd 81 admit ha' People de hre al
a. a.. ,re Sd M enemies Of tho city,. attempting w
Orleans And even one dare 70 te tue nun "a
teirs 70 New orleans Ard, really mu't have
mora geS 70 dee, 70 @ the src,asied rn And thai
,pth' mortality ot near SIX per Ssn ,sI ios ne'
and an occurrence Of ten epidemcs 81 geno~ Jeer 1sa
,so,,nS ne, s.ss,ei and lrt cif da,lg af tine
near a1f ire p,esnt popaLariOs ~ ~ efen7'y pHo'fss
kye ma PRODUCED m very results under
elm ate. wherever hsJ have excite sad thar "a
ten 10 the has b-en the eject IN Ihe most
uhysryins manner wh'n Ffnaed ne raj % account for
a anS yyssy,stsff spy T. il oniy consists q igrsuts
msrsns ho have made this ely what il e. and consist. OF 40
thar thirds of the white p0puaioo "a NOT time
that this andaeiov, and mrdAe system Of public t~p'shoH
should when the n o. IN, o.@S . S
Of BY emigration s nor une ,n nls III s
ook the facts steadily the face IL not time that the truth
should be told s It's deformiy II we ever intend msns an
All nf Ssw oTssns l. not At tSi. dsy opinion with
TIE ortusy and the c'nsu' OF the popason oeoe
fr half century or more; has unfortunately Tor US passed
from opinion 10 rc about which there no loom for dispute
by any inquirer The data are not contested ana are u
the disease proof bo stronger IL would really seem
from al tse fsc ne eSms H TO the same csn.as,ns
where the weakness the of the argument
sDa DOOR to the people
Ss%sTg 1b bs1 s. wsS Ss special
ton have superors in shewdnes and sssaciY oRon e
subject Of public health they Ike most others will realty
be battered The time has e9s s ;sv on
truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth NO Guy o
or spch drains as we have undergone. mu cease
or fhe help for Netc Oiedni Theie mas ooen 10
denial Of facts, and we are very sure oui ~
irrtfutable'
Thus YOUR readers will see that DR.. Barton, in
the above extract from his address, sustens all you
have said and gives the lie to the assertions OF such
pspers as The Picayuae. i should have remarked
tina, DIR. Barton has resided here over thirty years,
and from his long experience was selected TO PRESIDE
over the first sanitary commission, and the only
one ever held in America. That commission gave
their sersices for months in the investigation OF the
Of the endemic of 1853 and Of other years and
made a long and able report giving statement oil
facts and also recommended certain measures for the
prevention Of the pesiIence. The address delivered
by Dr. Barton before the Academy of Science was fol
the purpose of making further explanation and to tor
points not deemed sufficiently explicit. the Picayun
saws that in the years 1874, As and 40, and thu
wears of lsfs 40 80 81 and 52, the ratio OF deaths
here to the population was not as great as wa
that of the cities of New-York, Boston and St LOUIS
Now let us look at the statistics, and we find that the
mortality here was enc kundyed and tolcc per cent
greater than in your city and to Boston, the average
mortality Of that city is less than that Of New-York
DIR. Simmonds, formerly secretary of the Board oil
health, published book in which he proved by facts
that New-Orleans was the most sickly city in the
world.
The Pic0yuae says:
1.-THE enson the city toward the swamp has not proved
deleerous but ne rereye-that section penS snoos
the heah Sc the be visited oy prevail ing disease
Unjust expose this false assertion by another extract
from DIR. Bartons address. DIR. b. says;
THE report Of the sanitary commission eoaa'sey demon
fra n ta does produ,e fever and with the "es1,odi
adj rn YELLOW FEYcR in the psrs cities where thes,
are concentrated It's peculiar hsuns that ne
effects are in pretty precise proportion both 10 numb and
sDiy TO tine pIedomDsnee ., me and
not with TO other distant clues places sn
fse the iise. are ali before ~. the ts.oHy direct, tho
facts irefa sable-they are undeniate"
The PicdyHne says that
swsmpy the North and West usually regarded a.
being very ho. producing great yaney OF levers M
fueLzss, Consumption" &c.
And remarks:
~ NJ nrodu mn
such effects these are any such complaints Indigenous
here
Now all the facts collected by the Sanitary commits
zion and the reports of the hospital prove that yellow
fever and other feves cholera, influenza, &C., orga-
ate here Let us look at the returns OF the Charity
hospital for 1859 Ia year when we had no kind oil an
epidemic) and we find that out of eighteen thousand
and dtrty:fUe admissions into the hospital there
were fire thousand four hundred and toTtytoHr cases
of intermittent fever one 0UsaHd eight haadred and
trtntythree cases Of rement fever, one thousand and
egt cases typhus fever four hundred and ninety
cases typhoid fever four hundred and sixty mine cases
of continued fever one hundred and sxtyseven cases
copeesve fever four hundred and ninetysx Of yellow
and seventy five Of other fevers, making grand tota
of nine housand nine hundred and eighty, or more
than ffty-ve per cent; during the same year there
were four hundred and eghtyfour admissions as All
attic cholera and one thousand four hundred and hfy'
two diseases Of the bowels. Dr. Barton in his address
refers to the cemetery returns Of 1888, and remarks
"Ard bet silent bot most UnansDeats records .ee
Tbs .bo Ind he Aemorsi9n is before eyes) that 10
hi, very city during and the hottest ana
M Gaiest localities ysekiag Nth yeit9o
1r,y while TIE basnee Of Tor class them all TO-
rther IS proceeds from the but IN mno- de
gree naia.nste feVers Itsrmtteu renttent ohDas
cooest psrpciSus ya at the
tins AID place as~si - at other psioda
DR.. B. then presents table, derived from the OH.
cis cemetery returns, and proves the correctness Of
his statement Il, erd remarks that