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Al ARRIVAL FROM MEXICO.
The yellow fever made its first appear
ances in the Gulf States in 1867, IN the
town Of Indianola. Tcxas, in Matagorda
Bay. The first reports (Jurc aad in july
were contradictory, the local papers admit
ting only that ''several deaths" had occur
red, ''occasioned by bad type of bilious
fever" The truth could not long be con-
cealcd, however. The fever spread, and
prior to the 18th Of July a terrible epidemic
was raging, people were warned against
visiting the place, and the interior towns
had established quarantine. The details
OF the suifcrings of the people of Indanola
at the time are truly hcartrending, but it is
not my purpose to reproduce them now.
| The following account Ct the origin OF the
disease, which appeared in the lndianoa
Buttetin of July 2j, 1861 is clear and cir
cumstanial. That paper says the fever was
drought there by schooner from Vera
| Cruz Among her IA, engers were a gem
| tlemen and family. A drayman. Hunter,
hauled them up to the Magnolia House.
where the baggage was aired. Hunter, the
drayman. took sick with the fever and died.
small lad in the employ OF Clement <
Burbanks, opposite the north side of the
Magnolia House, also took sick and died.
A Mexican, who came passenger in the
schooner and put up at Mr.. Wagner. sick
cned and died, and subsequently two others
died in the same house The blankets and
some parts of the baggage of these people
were sold and thus became distributed
around and there is not shadow of doubt
but that the disease that is now prevailing
| here originated IT, above. Two young men.
one a son of Judge Duke, while on visit
to Indianoa, examined the blankets and
baggage above mentioned before they were
sold, and Immediately after returning home
to Hines Bay they were attacked by yellow
| fever and died, and the infection thus car.
rcd occasioncd several other cases II that
neighborhool.'
TIE SPREAD OF THE DISEASE
to Corpus Christi Lavacca, and the interior
towns, can be traced beyond dispute to re-
tugees from Indianola. Galveston early os-
| tablishcd Il quarantine, but that it was not
altogether eiicctual is shown By the follow
ing extract from letter dated Galveston,
july Z "Wc have bad one death from
black vomit-a refugee from Indianola--
| and two or three cases now in hand are re-
| garded looking much like yellow fever"
| The Galveston Ciriiidn OF Aug. 6 says:
'"rhc yellow fever was doubtless introduced
into Galveston from lndianola.'
An exodus of the citizens of Galveston to
the interior of Texas began in July, but they
took the seeds of death With th9nI. and hard
| ~ II town in the State escaped the scourge
! The disease proved much more fatal in the
interior than in the scab0ard cities, from
want of ice. medicines, medical attendance,
and experienced nurses. On Aug | yellow
fever was declared epidemic in g lveston.
New Orleans meanwhile continued
healthy. One case of yellow teyer--thc
first epotted-occurred in July an army
officer from Indianola, who died, believe,
at the St. Charles Hotel Otherclscs were
reported later at the stock landing, whc
the lndianola steamers landed. The yellow
| fever first became epidemic in Louisiana
at New Iberia The first case here was Il
man just arrived from the plague stricken
section of Texas. Feeling unwcl ne went
to drug store and touk some medicine
and then lay down on bed in room off
the store. Here he died of the fever. and
the disease thus introduced rapidly spread
until on the 18th of August there were lj0
cases under treatment.
New Orleans mean~hlc had one or two
cases, imported from Havana in the bark
Florence Peters. and the disease was strad-
lily on the in rease For the week ending
Aug, Is there were Is deaths reported from
yellow fever. The disease reached its
height in September, and then steadily de-
ill January. 1865. The Board of Health.
however, declared the epidemic at an end
on the oh of November The Times of
Nov. II, in expressing its thankfulncss al
the lifting Of the sable curtain, say,
1.-The disease has this year been cx-
ccedingly eXacting. Though its victims
were scarcely a fourth of the number o.
those who fell in 1853, yet the number Of
those attacked is fully three tines rs great
as it was in that deadly season"
STATISTICS OF 1867.
The New Orleans Jon,ual Of .Mdicine
for April, 1865, gives the following facts
and figures concerning the ravages of the
yellow fever in that city during the pre-
ceding year:
In J Rf,.. I.''''. IN d R Piss
JqIy; it.. ~ ~ 6So ossmbf l9 %
september. see. 1857
Among the military there were 2l3 deaths
out of 600 TO LOO cases The death.
from other feyers during this period aggGc-
+, gated 992.
The number of cases treated by the How
ard Association was 4,l9l-ded, $40; re-
covered. 3,S52 Relief was granted to
G,l90 other persons. The mortality of
tIese o"sIS ""s S's"' l'Ni ~'Ii'' ~ 'n'n 1t,
CharlIy hoSp'ta' ana ahons me htcd
Sla'es troops; uu' perhaps larger lh"ii III
Q pIlN"e P'"o'Oe, ne "o"'"u'' l'o'" 'hr
St'llSucs sN0n' hsuI'u up nh "lPIoN',a,'a-
, 'oh Oh 1IcoV c's's, o, Nuou, Mtn'y, nEe
per cent o. tIE "cJ""t popuI"''on "' 'ne
cl'y' It Is c "ri noo uoTrngi, ''''' s''ei'
The mortality of yellow fever cases was
eight per cent in 1861. against twonty.two
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