The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-10-28
PROM WILMINGTON, n. q.

va learn from DR. Hocry ssone. of Eississ ppL
who visited wilmlngtoa to offer his professional
AID to the ci.izsrs and who has recent sdviees
tm tbs city, that the number Of eases Of fever l.
dscis,5iy On the deaseAss There are hfteen or SIX
..sn physs.ans now On duty there seven from
cesr.ss.nr one Naval surg sou, aad eight OF the
,,ur, prse,itionsss who have been down ana re
A,vsrsd Dr. I 4. Andersen Is just up from at
,ass In addition, a large hospital has been opsn-
Al where large number Of the p ,orsr classes sre
..eommoisted thereby diminishing the number Of
ar,.aoor patients snd the lsbor Of the physicians
in o,opor.lonate degree. Few new cases ara &C.
sur,inS probably owing 10 the wan. of material
s,d lsrre numbers of those on hand srs recovering.
The people of Petersburg Richmond, and the sur
rounding country, responded moss,libsraily to the
e for provisions and relieved the distress that at
ess tiue prevailed, for ihsrs was actual starvation
,s.rins ther in the faes. After War aud Pssalsnce
hsi done theft work, but ut,ls would have bsen !ef
fox the third ,s.er 10 do.
Ths deaths on the 2lst numbered Is II will
rsysr be accars:-y known how many have died,
SIS the Glseese had prevailed several weeks before
/, wss pronounced yellow fsver, and afterwards
even tbs physicians made NO ofaoial reports of
deaths The nanbsr can only be approxmatsd by
reference the records Of tie plases Of intsrent
During his stay thsre 1t was impossible to procure
labor enough TO give ths bodies daeent burial aud
many remained unburisd all night, exposed to tto
winds Of Heaven. was the cass In Richmond q:
one tin hen The military hospitals wers crow ied
neither Ct svedigsers or ooffins could be had
In epidslnies, generally. il has been re1As, Sed
that whils the outward manifestations Of severity
may be the same In all thsir stages, yet the nor
taly IL greater during the frss few weeks and to-
war& tieir termination. Th. sis s:rikingy the
sase with yellow fever. The disease will be sr.
rested only BY heavy black Eoss, cold weather
always sggrevsting individual Cases, probably On
ssoouu, of the Difficulty 10 regulating the ssmssra-
t1s Of tbs sies chamber aad consequent dsrgsr o.
rasPHc.
1ha total rnmber Of cafes treated 30 Ear will
probably reach 2,2l0. of which at least 400 have
dad giving a mortality Of little over 90 Ger cant;
auite snAll compared with that Of the Norfolk epi
deuio Of less when "a died in every hundred
In connection with ths er idaa ic, 1t Ia fingra ar
TO notice that for many yea back there have been
farty fifty turpentine distilsries in operation
constantly. whereas this summer they were al
ai continued Ths disease lad rot appear ed the; >
far fa;iy years. Would il have o0ae this year IL
tho atmospheric had been thoroughly iinpi esaeted
with the tere5irthiho vaporsf Il Is commonly bo-
levsd that it spread from casss imported late in
Juy By tie Kate, but the frs. two or three Ct her
crew died Ia tie city seyera waeaS before others
similar nature were noticed. Il it wasimporttd,
WHY hes 1t not pesred IN other cties-Ao5i!e and
New oriesns-shefs vessels have arrived with
fever On beards Several pefeons who coatrssted
the disease there were brought hare and to other
places tn the interior and died. Yet 1t was not
communicated