The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-16

respected him, and many The regrets exprsusedfor
hh death. Nose" was y Rivas, and did GOOD service
and good conduct He died suddenly yesterday in Viz
gin, Of cholera.
We are well supplied at night with gnats, ants mos
qut&0es and ceTds too numerous TO mention and the
way they make themselves felt is TO be disputed
While write million gnats and many bugs OF yari-
Gus shapes and sizes are attacking me in regular battle
in the rear and vigorous and psrscverng are these
assaults that the parson who is with swesrs he was
never In country where they had such q swarm Of
bloodthirsty insects IN bis life.
Health OF the Soldaers-Ratao or Mortality
ln the Array.
From Fl Nicara yuense, June l41
We give ROOM with pleasure, TO the following interest
ing communication from the Surgeon General on the pre-
yaient epidemic in this city,
SURGEON GENERALS Orrcx,)
GRANADA, June 9, 1856. I
beg that you win insert the following short co mmun
cation in your valuable journal -
In communities generally and particularly where they
small and each intimate At least famil ar to
the sight, death is looked upon With than usual
where from his neighbor with doubt and fear
trembling lest he in recprocatng the usual cvics Of
life, has caught the Infection To US who have banded
together in the urtherance Of good cause the decease
Of many of associates has been looked upon with
more than usual sorrow and pain To youth, full
OF health AMI vgor bright with hope and glorious expec
ation, whose path through life strewed with gay
flowers-who looks upon the world without as all
that is good and beautiful-o see say him whom We
have laughed with and enjoyed all the best pleasures
that congena spirits appreciate stretched upon the bed
Of sickness is hard TO bear But, oh how bitter the
pang which strikes when he, too departs, and we
have looked last upon that beloved face and follow
those chert bed remains TO their last resting pacethat
barrier of life, that threshold Of eternty-the grave
1t s not my intenton TO enter into any discussion
corning the more particular causes Of the epidemic
which formerly prevailed among the recruits of our
army. lmprudence in eating fruit and the abuse OF
alcoholic liquors, has done much to fill the grave yards
direct miasmauc influence pervac es, just before the
commencement Of the rail- season, this whole distrc,
and the necessary crowding at times Of troops IN bar
racks also the neglect of the sound rules Of Hygiene,
has done most to increase the mortality.
However, in all the published works similar cpl
denies in the United States and Europe the mortality is
set down at much greater ratio than ,at which has
occurred here; for instance from the statistics of DR. la
Loche, in Gibraltar in 1914 with popu alton of 10 000
the mortality more than half, the number of
deaths being 60 Whilst in the epidemic of 1921 at
Barcelona, OF $50 patients entered at the General Hop
tai all died but ST. The population of Norfolk has been
estimated at IL 600 of which during the last fearful s
taon of that scourge yellow fever" 5000 fed, the
number Of deaths among the remainder had not been far
from 400yet with this fearful exhibit the disease
not satisfied for daily victims being added 70 the
mournful list.
In conclusion would say that with proper care, regu
lar hours and diet, abstemousness from alcoholic drinks,
good servceable clean clothing and proper police with
the prompt securance Of physician at the onset of the
disease viii eectualy check the future progress Of this
much dreaded % Granada fever"