New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-02
YELLOW FEVER At RIO.
Report of the Ravages of the Disease in
the Brazilian City-Death of Americans
Names of Some of the yictims-One
Hundred Persons swept Of in q Day.
From the New York Her.ld.I

| From the New York Hersd!
RIO JASEIR0, January 2j.-This city is
again suffering from the ravages of yellow
| fever. Many of the older and rewdrr
citizens prophesied for this summer vel
| low fever season. and based their state
ments upon what seemed to them to De in
:aIIlble indications. and they have proved
| true prophets. Very little rain had fallen
| since the later weeks OF November aud the
atmosphere had that muggy. sultrT, vel
| low character which too often in the
tropics proves the harbinger of disease
| Some ascrl5e the visitation TO the influx of
Italian emigration. but. at any rae, from
causes which always seem mysterious and
| difficult 70 trace. The te5rc unGrclip ap.
| peared in Il marked form, and continued 10
| increase unit! | presume az the present
| time there are not many less than d hun.
| dred deaths per day. Deaths from all
| causes are promptly and accurately known.
| but these from yellow fever are not-for
| reasons best known to the authorities
accurately reported.
am informed by physicians. both foreign
and native, that the fever exists in its most
| virulent form, and generally indicates its
appearance at the head of the spine and
base OF the brain rather than in the region
OF tae IONS, as most common heretofore.
Physicians. some OF them. have advised all
who can TO leave the city. Hints and
suggestions as To the best means to
avoid the fever appear in the daily pa.
pers: rules and sanitary regulations
are published by municipal authority. and
artisans of all classes strenUouslv urged TO
live IN compliance with them: new Ordi.
nancas are passed by the city government
and old ones raked up, and all enforced 10
cleanse and purify the public avenues and
the oyways, new hospitals are established
at remote points, and any who are liable to
lie affected by fever are feeling an alarm
the absence of which would much sooner
tend to insure an avoidance Of fever.
So far, it has been almost exclusively con.
fined to new corners. and of these the
lower class Of enigrants. It has gone in
like sCythe among the Portuguese and
Italians. Very few Americans have taken
II. and think only five have died. Among
the foreigners there have been a few affect
ing cases. The bark Adelaide Norris, of
Boston. commanded by Captain William
w. Reed, of Maine. whose first mate was
his son. William w. Reed, Jr., arrived here
late in December, laden with ice. have
understood that both father and son exerted
themselves to make a speed discharge. but
the captain was taken with the fever on
Friday. January 3, and died on Monday.
January 3. and his son died on Wednesday,
January s.
The Adelaide Norris sailed two or three
days since. in command of Captain Theo. |
dore +. Dubois, formerly a volunteer lieu.
tenant commander United States navy, and
!atterly commanding the coast steamer
Bahia. Captain Dubois family came ont
in the steamer from New York. which !
arrived here in November. presum. !
ing he was to remain here a mum. |
Der of years. Before they arrixed here, |
however. circumstances had constrained |
his leaving the employ. and now he has TO |
mourn the loss of his eldest daughter. Miss |
Sarah Dubois. a young lady of eighteen |
years. the fever having taken her OFT after
three days illness.
The oldest residents. and especially those
who have had the fever. are the ones who
fear it least. knowing tina. il remedies are
taken in time 1t can not become severe or
dangerous.