The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-30
YELLOW FEVER AT FoRr HAMrLTos, NY
The New York Herald Of Thursday, publishes
list Of II persons, who have died Z. Fort Hamil.
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YELLOW FEvER AT FoRr HAMILTos. NY
The New York Herald Of Thursday, publishes
list Of II persons, who have died q. Fort HamiI
ton, and says:
The news we received from Fort Hamilton late
last evening was heartrending in the extreme -
Not only In the yellow fever raging with great vi
rulence among the few people who remain in that
plague stricken spot, but the sick and dying are
neglected, and neither love nor money win induce
nurses and relatives to wait upon them
Heretofore the disease has been mainly confined
to the wealthy families living the sea shore but
now 1t has broken out At place known - Irish
town, among population Of very poor people, and
is reported to be very fatal
To show how panic stricken the people In that
vicinity are, 1t is stated 800 day are offered to
nurses but that exorbitant price w i'll not in
duce them to risk :ther lives by attending to the
sick The whole labor has fallen upon q few per
sons. among whom are Mr.. Paul Oliver, whom we
mentioned yesterday, and Rev. Michael Scofeld,
the Episcopal clergyman, and the latter has been
compelled to retire to recruit arduous and exact
ing has been his labors.
The two companies of United States soldiers in
the fort were marched out some two weeks since,
and are now encamped, to the number of two
hundred. several miles inland. There are only
a few sentinels left in the fort, and they daily
sicken.
The following is an extract of a letter we re.
ceived from gentleman who has relatives sick at
Fort Hamilton
Mr.. Scofeh and Mr.. Oliver have stayed there,
and done all they could, from the time of Mr..
chandler Whites Illness with no one to assist
them. Mr.. Scofield 10 now worn out, and has
been obliged to leave to recover some of his lost
strength; and Mr.. Oliver ia now the onIy one left
there. One hundred dollars per day was offered
for nurse for Mr.. Cummings, and there was none
to be had
Any amount of money can be raised TO hire
nurses, and the residents at Fort Hamilton want
the public attention called to that fact.
MI. Green and his SON are lying very low. There
is no prospest of any one who is sick recover.
ing; They are dying frem sheer neglect. Every
family, rich and poor whe can rise money in any
way to get away from the place, are leaving Dr.
Vollum, of the army, il the only physician in the
place. ALI others have fed, but he has done
all that one man can do; has been up night and
day, and now the government has ordered him to
Bedlow's Island. He is only waiting to be re-
lieved by the regular physician of the fort Dr.
Bailey.
The New York Journal of Commerce says:
In no instance whatever have the persons who
were removed from the infected district while
under the influence of the fever, or those in whom
the disease made it's appearance after they had left
that locality, communicated it to those around
them. Physicians, nurses and undertakers em.
ployed about them, have been in no case attacked
This accords with the observation exercised by
skilful and vigant persons at Norfolk during the
prevalence of the pestilence there last summer and
on which the opinion is based that the disease is
not contagious. 1t was never communicated from
patients removed to a healthy locality. To be.
come communicable, there seems to be required an
infectious condition of the atmosphere. The fact
that the disease has not spread in Brooklyn and
New York, proves that there is no such condition
of the atmosphere in those cities as will admit of
its dissemination. And now that more than a
month has passed since it exhibited itself in this
vicinity, and that it is gradually abatng in the
scene of its raNages, and has spread in no direc-
tioR beyond it, we may humbly and thankfully
trust that merciful Providence will continue to
avert from us 80 calamitous and destructive Wis
it2tion.