New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-06

The excitement growing out Of locating TEN
porary Hospitals at Seguine's Point, has gwen
rise to very many explanations or theories relative
10 the spread Of Yellow Fever as il appeared on
Long Island last Summer. The most confident
theory promulgated is, that the infection Of the
fever is waited by the wind from vessels under
quarantine; that if vessels infected with poison
were anchored within mile and half from any
shore, where the breeze passing over the vessels
blows constantly upon that shore for several days
in succession, the citizens will be subjected to the
pestilence-not those alone who reside in close
proximity to the shore but those also who live at
points remote from it, several miles in the country
IN the settlement Of the question, where Quaran-
tine shall be- located, it is important to know the
facts relative to the influence Of the winds on In
fected vessels, and how far the poison from the
same can be or has been carried, under the most
favorable circumstances. This matter can be bet
ter demonstrated by the experience Of this port
last Summer, than by reference to that of another
season. or any other port, for the reason that the
amount Of disease which was brought into the bay
of New York during the past season was probably
in excess Of that of any other period either at this
or any other port.
Yellow fever found its way from Quarantine to
the Lorg Island shore last Summer. Did it get
there by infected materials floating shore at Bay
Ridge or by the poison being waited from the ves-
ses under Quarantine by southerly winds! The
disease likewise made its appearance at Bergen
Point, New-Jersey, and at Governors Island. Did
the infection find its way to either of these points
or places by southery winds, or by floating infected
materials The proof is abundant, in answer to
each of these questions, that the yellow fever at
each of these localities, originated from floating In
fected materials, and not from infection waited by
the agency of the winds from vessels on board of
which pestential disease had prevailed.
The history of yellow fever, as it prevailed on
Long Island last Summer, should be instructive in
settling the question of the agency of the wind in
carrying from point to point the infection of yellow
fever The disease as every citizen knows, ap-
peared at fret within few rods from shore; and
notwithstanding the winds blew for weeks in di.
rection inland, il was confined exclusively to the
coast-not case appearing at any considerable
distance therefrom If the wind can watt the
poison of yellow fever from place to place, how
can the above fact be explained The truth Island it
is susceptible Of proof that the Long Island pest-
lence last Summer originated from refuse, infected
materials thrown overheard, contrary to law, by
vessels arriving in port. What is true aud can be
proved of the origin Of the disease on the Long
Island shore, is equally true of Bergen Point and
Al. h. &c Isla md hal
kinsyllle.
For more than half century, the Quarantine has
been located at Staten Island. During this long
period yellow fever has often been communicated
to the residents of the island, but those who have
had an attack of the malady have either been per-
sons who have had to do with infected vessels and
carqoes or those who have resided i'll proximity to
the shore, where floating materials from the bay
often find a lodgment Staten Islanders, living
even few hundred rods from the bay, have never
suffered from imported disease, no matter which
way the wind may have blown, and no matter how
often they may have passed or re-passed to the
city of New-Iork, through the range OF Injected
vessels under quarantine. If the poison could have
been waited by the winds, at sundry times during
tIt past nd1 CtutuIN' 1tlioN iO''i WYNN" ""'N f'"
vailed as an epidemic throughout the entire island;
but the fact that the island has not been visited by
the pestencc, except on the shore and IN the vcn-
ity of the Quarantine, proves cOnclusvely that the
'wind hypothesis " is wind only.
The Commissioners for the removal of the Quar-
antine Station are putting up temporary hospitals
at Segune's Point. Much opposition Is urged TO
the project not only by the residents OF the local
ity, but by some of the City papers, on the ground
that, if yellow fever is brought on the island at that
point, the winds Will wait ats poison thence
to every mans residence till it reaches even the
City of New-York. This plea, in opposition To the
removal Of Quarantine is a mere bugbear, promul'
gated for the purpose of thwartng the efforts OF
the Quarantine Commissioners and evidently win
the view of adding to the excitement and desperate
recLlessnes which already exist at seguine FONT
among TIE misguided oystermen.
bred Scott was formerly the slave OF d)r. Euler'