New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-20
Netp1lerk DAILY Gribt,te
TgryrLLOWFEVER AND ITS LOCALITY

Neither IN il. beginning nor progress has the yell
low fever henabouts. which has lately occasionea
So much excitement, and alarm, displayed any o'ner
than It's usual habitudes. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ships were detained IN such numbers 81 the Ne"
York Quarantine as infect The slr 10 'a' i01'''
to such all extent as not only IL increase tue "a"
ger aud multiply the poison among themselves ou'
io render IL dangerous e. others III passing Never
theless in accordance with quarantine laws vessels
arriving from certain ATTITUDES, though IN per-
fectly healthy condition, had 70 be detained III TINS
here for observation In TINS way !eI
low ever ships became so numerous as 10 require
nearly the whole Narrows for anchorage
On tie 9th day Of July the slluNal plain 81 SAND
al Fort Hamilton and Bay Ridge was subjected 10
an unusually heavy rain, l.-0 in. which from the
conformation of the soil could not run OF. sue
creding tbs followed a drouth and high tempera-
ture the mean Of which. recorded at !. :, and
o'clock daily, :. So and ranging high as 81.
On the 9th, Their mometer at > o'clock 90': 2cth,
~ On the 29th It fell to SIS, aud on this day
the first case of yellow fever occurred.
The mean Of the hygrometer for the same period
vas 75.so. and fcr the twenty days inclusive from
the 9th 10 the 2gh there had been but OF n rain on
the l5ih). On the och II raned IN the night 80
in. During this period the wind ranged from the
southwest to the northwest; from the DIST to the
Doth from the southwest only For these facts
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Army for an abstract Of his meteOrooglcai reg
lister.
During This drouth and high temperature the sol
! If Fort Hamilton aud Bay Ridge probably ten
or twelve degrees hotter than the atmosphere, which
increased its facility of eyaporatng the ram which
| + had absorbed and filling the air with yapOr.
Thus wellprepared the poison ofyellow fever WAS
! cose M hand had tair wind, and was s0wn in good
ground. Here il found the conditions essential to
! ia srread in the air and il became epidemic.
| That il did not extend 10 BrOoky n and New-lork,
! because the same conditions were not IN exist
euce and that il has never occurred at Fort haml-
! ton aud Bay Ridge before IL because the catena-
| ton Of causes has never so uuch favored 1t, Inc
! endemic has been limited by the extent OF the un-
paved sandy soil. which was subject to heavy ram
| that could not run of and subsequent high tenn
prrstnre. and it was caused by the NeW-loIk
/ Quarantine.
! About the first of JULY the bark Crawford, from
! Porto Rico arrived 81 Quarantine, where, accord
ing 10 law. she was detained ten days; at the end
! OF which time no fever occurring on board 'ne
WAS permitted TO come up 10 the city. Near the
middle of JULY she discharged her cOrgo IN the
vicinity of Pier No. 10 East River. Soon after
| this. man who had been at work on board the
| Crawford was taken sick with yellow lever, ana
was removed to the Quarantine Hospital. Nlthlh
few DAYS four others, with yellow fever from the
same vicinity, were likewise taken to the 'llaran'
tine Hospital Stephen Drew, one OF the Craw.
fords men. was engaged as mate by Capt. Davis OF
tbe bark Sidop. where he took his dunnage, aud
slowed il under Capt. d.. bunk. -Four days alter
| ward Cant. Davis was taken i'll with yellow lever,
| and after six DAYS July 18th, he was removed To
! Quarantine Three days after Capt. ID. was taken
10 the Quarantine Stephen Drew was carried
there, also with yellow fever, OF when he ded.
| Aug. y there was case al No. l''o Drodo s'Iee'
| Ouear Pier No. l0): one AT the corner OF Jeiter-
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| entb street near Avenue A, both OF whom mad
been Ar work in the neghbOrhOod OF Pier No. III.
These fen cases all contracted the disease IN The
vicinity OF Pier No. 10, opposite the Injected as
| trict" of Brooklyn, and one IN Whltehaii street
near tie ferry before there had been any IN WHO"
place or Furman street, or either oil lhe TWO .,
three cases at the foot of Joraemon street, ABOUT
| which there has been so much excitement tendini
| IA divert public attention from the true source %
the disease At least two other vessels, alter Delns
subject 10 the same regulations as the CrawfVd
discharged their cargoes in the same nelghborhood
and these goods were in part stored on me BROOK
lyn side before the yellow fever occurred near tne
| stUrehOuses.
Another place which became infected IN New
| York was Trinity place and Greenwich street,
| where there we're seven cases, two oil WhOm were
lately from the country, and bad been exposed no.
! where else than in this neighbOrhOOd Among
these cases was a clothier IN Albany street, VINO
in Bellevue Hospital was traced to the clothing
store in Albany street.
I'm the square bounded BY James, Madison, Mon
roe and Catharlnc streets was another place where
were several cases" and two deaths, beside the
following: A man who traded in junk from this
neighborhood was in the daily habit Of visiting
Quarantine. He disposed OF junk on South, Front,
Roosevelt, Cherry and James streets. There was
| a fatal Gaze over a junk shop in James street,
where this junkman had disposed OF junk. This
man and bis daughter both died with black voinlt,
in Roosevelt street, above Cherry. Two Others
died with it in the same house, aud two died IN
sailors boarding house IN James street, north o.
Caiharine Market.
Spring street near North River was about the
center of another place in the neghborhood o
which were four cases, and among these, too,
Junk trader.
On the l4th July there was one in Oak street
| who had few days before spent some time al
Quarantine Ira Conklin, from the VIM. f.
dodge. had been in various places about the har'
Dor, and bis is the only ndubtable case not clearly
traceable to infected things or places be died at
Quarantine with black vomit.
| The above thrty-tOur eases IN New-fOrk we're
| all indubitabe, and cannot De- galnsayed.
Against these with increased facilities for ascer-
tanning every case, ten have occurred that are only
equally indubitable in Brooklyn, in two places,
! first. among the poorly tenanted lghtermen on
the mud flat south Of Hamilton avenue, who were
employed in handling infected things; and, secondly,
in and near Furman street, in close proximity 10
the storehouses in which goods from infected ships
have been stored. and directly opposite more an 4
earlier infected place, Pier No. TO-
Beside these, there have been about an equal
ratio "a in New-York to 10 in Brooklyn, OF doubt
fu cases, and others which have not been clearly
| authenticated
AT Quarantine there have been over 200 treated.
| In the endemic district Fort Hamilton aud Bay