New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-30
o., in the kitchen at tho south battery wa. seiz ID

removed Ia The hCrpItal anG i''''r4t9.
The oistase then spcad among the music boys,
whose quarters were over the kitchen. large num-
Der Of them we've attacked, some " whose symptoms
seemed to be thoTe Of yellow fever. GENERALLY, when
taken IN season, the disease would speediy yield 10
medical trea,n ent but up yesterday eight persons
had been buned. The whole locality wa thorougty
cleansed AID whtew sshed and the disease now be-
| hved to be abating, although two moIe were sent 10
the hospital yesterday, and one to-day.
| The other parts Of the island remain generally
healthy Orderly. Sergeant OLeary died su1deuiy in
Font Columbus On Wednesday nigh, but his dsesee
wss asoertaned to be congestion of the lungs tie had
been the evening dress parade, and our reporter
was ted that he cisd with his belts on
| DEATHS by Yellow FEVER AT FORT HlAILrOs
The following deaths that have occurred by yellow
fever at Fort Hamilton and s vicinity during the
present season has been handed TO Us ny gen.
ilensn who has remained there during the prevalence
of the disease, and who vouches for the accuracy Of
the information
July q, wm. Cl.s. g, Judge Rockwell .. MI. Doyle
Gen saIs asn 0es s a.nIy cb.sdsI s Ws. M
Powell. Mn sise .'ry'pt gil q Bsas. Bsnss' :.T.D
Brooiiyn Mr. Prince. servant Nj Boy, d t~O daughters
d John Bergen and hi; 'o 'on. shs two esssater' Mr.
setT BERGEN and vie sPG 4s .n ,eTSart S s M
ming and wife Nh Philip Tu.y MAJOR M''n'' servant girl
There are tour more persons whose names we have
rot been able TO acetsn, that have died. beside the
| above
Mr.. n. Green. proprietor Of the hotel is net likely
| 70 live through the day. His son is doing better.
| We lesrn further that between Saturday last and
Monday there were sixteen new cases Of fever at this
place. which, in proportion TO the popua'on greater
| Than the mortality at Norfolk.
| Yesterday evening as MrT Oliver walking on
the shore be entered email cottage, where be found
two wfrnen down with the fever, OF whom already
had the black vOnIt. There was also a little chud IN
| the house who was not sick. lEVenDg POST
FoRT HAMILTON RELIEF SOCIETY.
At meeting held at the residence Of VIM 5. Sears
| at Fort Hamilton. Mr.. Hyer in the chair, Mr.. Oliver
| SecretaIy WAS unanimously received:
That a society called the FOIt Hamilton Relief So
cety be formed forthwith, to aid and assist those suf
ftring from yellow fever, now prevalent at Fort Ham
| ilton and Bay Ridge.
That il shall be the duty of this society to procure
by subscription, such funds may be required to carry
| out tbe above object.
That il thall be the duty of each member Of this
| society to ascertain when and where any such cases
Of sickness among the poor occur, with view OF Their
immediate removal TO the Mospita, now being estab-
hsbed and in cases where such removal s not pract
cable to provide medical advice and the attendance OF
a lure if such il neceesaIy.
That il shall aso be the duty of every member TO
ascertain the wants OF the suffering s siek and the
That IT shall be the duty of the Society to relieve
those who have been SICK and those families who have
suffered by death provided that such persons shall be
found entitled to II.
That it shall be the duty of this Society to furnish
such of the destitute far may be deemed proper,
funds to enable them to remove from the Injected
| districts
On an election being held this 2sth Gay of August,
ls56 Paul A. Oliver was declared President; Francis
| +. Berrier declared Secretary Charles f. Sears
"'e FRANCIS E BERRIER, Secretary.
CARD FROM The ISHABITAsTs.
FORT HAMILTos, Friday, Aug. %, 1886.
The fatal sickness now among has prevented the
Inhabitants of yellow Hook and Fort Hamilton from
preeentirg 70 the public the of the disease,
that they might take action go az to remove those
caues and prevent for the future tier being again
visited with ihi- OF any other pestilence.
Those who took a prominent part in the subject
Judge Rockwell, Chandler White, and r. H. Cum
nirg were stricken with the disease and cied.
Othes in tendDg to the sick had n5 time to hunt up
the proper officers and convince them By teoous argu
ment tlat sickness was at THEN doors, and in our
dwellings. The Efforts of those mentioned above
carried out es well as could be by the surviving in
| babitsrts-bad the vessels removed from Gravesend
| Bay, though not until sickness and death had been
spread. at
| ,f the following csuses, is without shsdox of a
doubt: The breathing OF the inf, cted air, which blew
for continuous period rom the qusranned vessels
into dwellings; from the rtoted matter cast over
hoard from the Gnarantned vessels and washed along
the shore and from the nurslrg the sick, particularly
the first infected the disease was not then thought
Of and consequently no proper Precsnton was taken
| to countersct the influence which the disease might
have upon those worn out with anxiety and sleepess
| watcbings.
when removed to other districts, although some OF the
| sick thus removed have died
This sickness then being produced direct from the
shipnlIp demands
the reno, al of the whole Quarantine ulther seaward,
where the wind cannot carry the pestlence, nor the
tic return to shores laden with plague-emitting
matter, or 10 appoint proper officer who VIII no.,
through ignorance or worse motives, put vessels on
our shore For if the wind can by long continuance
blow Infected matter upon u.s. and Affect us 10 q,
sparsey. populated district, how much more faia viii
be the ELECTS if the breeze which daily reviyes the
way farers Of Broadway cones laden with the disease
from shipboaId? Years ago few vessels lald at
Ouarsptine-rOw hundred would not embrace their
number extending they do from shore to shore As
commerce increase does the danger there. we
have an aw wful warDiog-Inay We all heed II and pre-
pare. ..
about New-Yoik and ride along the shore today
would present most lively landscape bright IN cu
tivaon and bos:omng with flowers, with no outward
sign Of the cesolston and death which reign within
| Ano if the prospect exces the stranger, how much
more by the association of the departed ones.
We call, then, upon the citizens OF New York and
Brooklyn to take nitiatoy measures at once TO remove
the of sickness from doors now and for the
future.
We would state here in regard to the dfferert fam
lies lesvrg, that they only did so when convinced
that to stay teatb, or exteuding the disease
Many taken away Frustrated IN nursing the SICK
Indeed the whole community, from Gowanus TO
Gravesend have proved them:tves to be attached TO
each other 10y common tie: for IN every case the
neigh boring sick have been attended 10, even unto
death.
SAMUEL BoNNELL, jr.
PAUL 4. Oliver
Az APPLAL FROM FORT HAMILTON.
To the Ed,te, Of The ~ \. Tribune.
SIR: propose, with the concurrence OF some others
reDa ming here, to endeavor to raise Relief Fund, tn
be applied to the benefit of such of the poor as may
b., suffering through the terrible epidemic nov raging
in ls place, ard far practicable to remove such
peIoDs and families that be of no service and who
have not the means Of leaving.