New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-06

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THE FEVER sCOURGE.
The Canse Of the Present Visitation Of Ma.
Darial Disease-The Long Heated Term
and Uuabated Nuisances the Partial
Cause Of the Infection.

Fhe Canee Of the Present Visitation Of Ma.
larial Disease-The Long Heated Term
and Unabated Nuisances the Partial
Cause Of the Infection.
From the New York World
Many long year has elapsed since this
community suffered so much from malarious
diseases as they do at present. On all sides
there are complaints concerning friends sur
fering from these diseases. One would think
this was Charleston, Savannah, New Or
leans, St. Louis, or Cincinnati by the preva-
lence of these diseases. The long heated
term seems to have placed the city under
the influence of the same nOxiOus pOisOns
shat infect all those places.
The sun reaching after moisture, in such
summer, will send its calOric pumps far
down among the nOisOme vapOrs Of the
earth, and bring them up to poison all liv-
ing things. But besides having to encOun-
ter the poisOns of the subsol mentioned in
yesterdays World, which are common to all
cities where great changes are being made
in the surface of the ground, we have now
to meet the plague OF universal rottenness
Of all quickly perishing material, TO which
Southern cities are subjected, by the great
heat, and Western cities by the action OF
heat and moisture upon the rank vegeta-
ton of their rich alluvial surroundings At
such times the low grounds in the upper
part of the island, and in the neighbOring
cities, give forth gases almost as pestilential
as those Of the delta Of the Mississippi, OF
the rice swamps Of South Carolina. Every
thing that heat and moisture, or heat alone,
will disintegrate. speedily rOts and sends
forth those primary elements that are very
good in their place, but that Is not to
human beings.
ANY one who has lived in Western cities,
and read Western medical works, will be
struck by the amount of time aud study
devoted by the physicians of those parts to
malariOus diseases. These troublesome
Affections are the principal foes they have
to encounter in their practice. 1t Is their
universal testimony that the malarlOus
diseases of those parts arise from the iber-
alton into the air of gases foreign to the
elements of pure atmospheric air. There is
even worse poison in dry, rich, black prairie
eornfelds than there is in most OF the stag
nant pools of our suburbs. This would 60
to show that what we have to dread is ex-
halations from disOrganizcd animal and
vegetable material There is certainly a
direct ratio between the malarious diseases
Of any district and the decay produced
gases in the air of that district.
It matters not whether the rot takes
place in q rich, dry, upland prairie, reek-
ing swamp, city pond or sewer, a sluggish
inlet or canal, new grading, the fat shore
of shallow river that is exposed by every
tide, dirty street, alley, or gutter full Of
offa1, dirty cellar, an ash or manure heap,
a cesspsOl, stable o rag store, bone
boiling or fat melting establishment, street
dirt barge, q carrion barge, q slaughter
house. . meat packer, q room full of filthy
human creatures, the garbage Of markets,
the refuse of factories, or any other NUS
Ancos; where the carcass Of decay is there
are gathered together the eager eagles of
the dir, ready to carry to human lungs and
human pores the invisible seeds of disase
and death. Let, then, every man, woman,
and child of this community attack and
abate all such nuisances as earnestly as a
flock of turkey -buzzards win remove a dead
horse