The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-06-02
RAVAGES OF YELLOW FEVER IN
BUENOS AYRES
Seven Hundred and Fifty Deaths 6
Day-A Terrible Record

The Ilerald's Montevideo CORES.
pondent, under date of April 10,
gives a fearful picture of the fright
full ravages of yellow fever in the
city of BuenOs Ayres. The modern
history Of that dread disease has no
parallel, so far as we are informed,
to the loss of life that, since the first
of February, has been going on in
that devoted city. From that date
to the date of the correspondents
letter, there have been over t,Celrc
thousand deaths, and the daily aver
age mortality for the week previous
was over $50, On April Sd, there
were 1857 deaths, on the It'll, 403, on
the 9th, $40, on the 9th, 3+4, on the
9TH, 399, on the 0th, sol, on the 9th,
Secen hundred and Wty, on the 10th,
$50, on the 18th, $40, on the 18th,
427, on the 18th, and 18th to P.
NJ, last day, 30. These figures
were, in almost all cases, the number
reported as entered by actual count
at the cemetery, but they fall short,
in many cases; as bodies were aban-
doned and remained for days at a
time in the hourcs before they were
discovered.
The correspondent continues:
Families are broken up and scat
tered; husbands abandon Their dying
wives; mothers leave their children
to die alone, and in some cases entire
families are swept away. As many
as five or six corpses have been dis
covered in a single house, and there
is a lack Of laborers to perform the
duties of removal and sepulture of
the dead There is also, as might
naturally be supposed, scarcity of
physicians and nurses to attend the
sick in the various hospitals, and
where almost every inhabited house
is miniature hospital in itself, the
extent of the suffering must be in
deed dreadful.
A new cemetery to receive the
fever victims, has been opened in the
campo south of the city, toward the
Riaehula-the old pantheons being
inadequate. A train railroad has
also been laid from the city to this
new metropolis, and the bodies are
carried out on the tracks like so
much packed freight. There is no
time to construct ccffins or burial ca
SEES. The stock on hand was long
since exhausted, and the undertakers
have in some instances fled from the
terrible harvest of business that has
sprung up.
About 100000 persons have fled
from the city, some taking refuge in
Montevideo and the towns up the
river Parana, but by far the larger
portion are in the campo, within Il
distance of from ten to fifty miles
from Buenos Ayres. Peasants and
gauekoS living in miserable mudwal-
led huts, with straw roofs, have been
besieged with importunate tenants
from among the wealth and aristoc-
racy of the public, and, in scores of
cases, are receiving as much as $3.50
to $500 per month rent for their
squalid abodes. Families who lived
in superb style two months ago are
now covering among the huts on the
plains and sleeping on beds laid upon
the floor of earth.
The population of the city is usu-
30" but death and
ally about 2UU,oo., -
flight has reduced it tc 10000 =.
less. We see by recent adyices that
the deaths have been reduced to 100
a day, and the prospect, therefore,
seems good for the gradual disappear
ance of the disease.