The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-12-31
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Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NV oaIEHNs. sUHDAY. DEcEMBER 81. ls1l.
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.
LONDON, Dec. 6. 1871.
To the Editor Of Morning Star:
All England, that is the upper ten thou
sand, has been in state OF intense anxiety |
during the past fortnight. The heir APP
parent to the British crown has been
fever. The daily bulletins, although
couched in terms rigidly technical. con-
veyed enough to cause great and daily IN
creasing alarm, were 1t only Tor two rea
sons, the formidable array of medical
names signed at their foot and the STUDIED
effort to avoid giving alarm and to put the
ment of three or more eminent physiciaHs
at once would, of itself, be severe trial
for the nerves of ordinary mortals, but
princes are, perhaps, Injured to that as one
of the inevitable concomitants of their ex-
allied state. Then the language OF the
seemed not 60 much to deny as to treat
with professional sang frotd The fever
process is still sever, but its progress is
satisfactory" "The Prince Of Wales has
passed tranquil night" Conditions
continue favorable" The, symptoms ns
little comfort in all this; and yet the public
is treasured and seems TO think the danger
over. am sorry not to be able to share
fully the confidence that has suddenly be-
come so general, of the Princes recovery,
though I sincerely hope it may prove to DC
fever is typhoid cnteric;" it is described
by the doctors as of that sort which is gen.
Grated by bad efiluvia from an ill drained
sewer, and yet we are told that it attacks
the young and healthy in the mansions
of the rich rs fatally if not as often as IL
Albert's death has naturally beer called to
mind, and the more SO, as it took place at
this very season, just ten years ago-in fact
the Prince himself is said to have been the
very first to recall the sinister omen of his
&. fathers illness and premature death. The
fore his illness, at Lord Londesborongh's.
at Scarborough, and by a startling and
terrible coincidence, the earl of Chester
field, an intimate friend of the Prince, who
was also visitor with him Scarborough
was seized with the same fever at the same
time 90 the Prince. In the case of the Ear
the progress of the malady was more rapid
and he is already dead of the same. Hence
Scarborough, the most fashionable of thu
English watering places of the present day
was at once credited with the infection
of the Prince. 1t is now known, however
that since the return OF HIS hoyal Hign!
ness to Sandringham, his country house II
Norfolk, several of the servants of his house
hold have been stricken down with ty
pheid: a groom has died of it and othe
cases have occurred in the village. TIL
question is still in dispute, and the origi
of the terrible scourge mocks the lnvesti
cations of science, and will probably con
Iinue to do SO. After all, there is a God
and the best of sanitary regulations canno
ALWAYS insure health and1ong life. Ihl
truth which events are making 80 impress
i've just now, is totally ignored In tn
columns of scientific cant with which tn
papers are now filed up. They are ev
IDENTIFY in the dark upon the first principle
of their subtle theories.
Much surprise has been expressed at tn
short visit paid by the Queen to Sandrinl
ham last week. Her Majesty travelled fro
Windsor BIZ special train but she onl
stayed two nights under her sons roo
and left on the morning of the next da
without seeing him even once DuriI
her stay it was that the most alarmir
access of the fever took place, and voml
inc superyened, which, with other sym
toms, summoned all the royal fami
around the bed of the Prince and depress
their hopes to the very lowest point. ~
bestnews since from Sandringham has oe
that the luke OF EolnpuISn nas uSoA =.
snipe- shooting; this is taken to indicate
conyiction that the danger is over. T
popular superstition" Of Norfolk is,
are told, that vomiting in typhus fey
throws off the disease and puts an end
once to all danger.
said the upper ten thousand"
England felt anxiety about the Primo
danger. 1 ought to have included
"west end" tradespeople of Lond
They are dismayed at the prospect o
regency succeeding the present dulne
which seems interminable; it has aires
lasted ten years, since the death of
Prince Consort in fact the Court of
toria was never a gay or brilliant one.3
ten years the grumblings were deep