New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-04

WIN very IaVoraote results. -Four cases Oc-
urred IN the First District, of which two
contracted the disease in Pascagoula and
'ne In the Second District. Six cases ap-
Deared IN the Third District, and in their i'm
hedlste vicinity there were l56 unaccli- !
mated persons who did not take the lever
after disinfection.
PENSACOLA and Pssca goula suffered from
epdeinic yellow fever in 1874.
III 1910 the first yellow fever case ap-
peafeo near the O!d basin On the eighth of
q aa"sust, ID the person of a jew paGIer bay.
Anpther case followed, in smother block
near the same locality, on the seventeen th,
ana ~, others again later ia other blocks near.
Inc schooner O.otf, OF Muss Poiut, Pasca-
go"ia rlveI-where willow fever was epi-
deinic In 1874 and in IS75--on board OF which
vessel case occurred in 1874, left the Old
basin August 3. Her captain, Wilerson,
was SICK with vollow fever on board, cn the
vessel ARRIVAL oil Pascagou'G, on the sixth
OF August. He was taken ashore at Scran-
ton to-, ON the eighth, and died on the tenth
Inc oioif proceeded to Moss Poiut,
aud discharged her cargo ON the tenth.
Oh tne tNeittl some ludtting was taken
acoih tie Oiuf to the house OF Mr.. Price. |
en the seve1teenth the yellow fever broke |
on IN the Price family, and thence spread |
tos theirs in the village ot Moss Point. 1t is |
lhlsred that the Oloff's cabin had re- |
pedtr boy and Others hal visited her while |
In u Od basin. and that this was the |
orlgMot the first of the New Orleans cases |
in lST
LII u infected Second District. seven |
cases oAlr,ed in August, twenty-five in
SepteMN sixteen in October aud tour IN
NovembeA
Inc coh1:ops were fa> orsble in this por-
| noh Oh 'ho " for the rapid spread of the
disease.
standing the J I opn"s,t .on which DELAYED
the resuit-hsey suodued it there en-
| tirely.
Two cases o,Ssred near the jackson
railroad oepo. III utern Der, but after dis
ln the Fourth DIsIt, back Of Dryades
$50, sa. r,,;pb;n wv areasV VIeared IN oepIem-
Thp re-, however, there ~. po onno';,;"n
to disinfection, and in al. osss r. vords
and houses we're .rown or ,n the disin.
fecting agent A total cesssEn ot ,i,a f..v.r
in taaJ dis.rlet resulted imnss teiv there.
after" withstanding thatN cc,s,,s of
the infected blocks estabiishe' tL., faot
that nearly 600 unacelinated whAs n..rs"ns
were residents therein. No strontr nroof
of the value OF disInfect'on couis h., d.
sired; the cause and eject are - mis-.
taxable.
l. is believed that but for disintectA>
yellow fever epidemic wouit have scOah.i
New Orleans in 1873. The disease madeNa
appearance esriy enough, it was OF vesy
malignant type-slxty- ty-thTee deaths occur
| ring uut of a total of lO4 caees-thousands o
| onr uopulation are liable to it, and no reason
can b. given why il should not have sprea,
here ss Il did at h lrrancas. PoWelIs Point
Pascagoula. Scranton and hloss Pom otne
than that We fought the disease bS disiI
fectinC every locality were II appeared, ant
{ they did not.
Daring the years 1870 to 1919, inclusive
the system OF disintectiyn has been persist
: entity and systematically followed up l.
New Orleans, and improved upon, as expe
rience from year toyear suggested. DuiIh
the same period, while We have pee
J | yellow fever has prevailed III an epidemi
tOfm-iu seme localities more than ,ncs-
3 at Mobile. Kew West. Pensacola, Barrar
cas-. Powei.'s Point, Fowl kiver, Pasca
: goula, Scranton. Moss Pom, jackson, Car
En-. Natchez, shreveport. Memphis, varlou
1 ulaces or Red river. and nou less tlan II
: teen points in Texas, spreadin, trol
= Shreveport, where dislniecI ION Was o. r,
!, serted tn. Siucs Mobile anu Ga este
have adopted the system oi GisIh- oStlol
! they too have escaped.
Ia not the evidence of beneficial re suit
: sufficient to warrant the continue lion c
. the systeml And may Vi not clam tina
y the spread OF yellow fever can % col
X trolledl May we not hope to be able, er
long, at least, to annolhce to the wori
], that general epidemic Of yellow fever vi
,Se never eccur here again-as heretofore it s
- often has-and scourge car city,
IL Yellow fever Was unkn,wn here prior
~ ~ the year 1896. DIR. White suggests tha
" =, .she disease might becone extlne: in tn
- country ii not reinforced, from lcalitie
- where il is endemic and peNnnial."
-; From 1872 to 1898 there Nre twelve ep
~ denies; from 1888 to 1855 tlire were ais
r. r. twelve epi3emics. Qaaranyte wa, estal
~ ~ lshed in 1850, and since TIM but thre
! -, ~ epidemics have occurred it twenty-on
,,iv years.
..o a method of disinfec,ing the lads and Ca
as, goes Of yessels frem infected ports, b
a.u forcing into them disintectin agases, an
~. placing earbolic or crssylic lid in tn
M' bilges, etc. OF tue vessel has I'm in as
lon' at the Mississippi Quarantine Alton. o
no vessel so tumigated and diferted a
rom quarantine has case of yeiio ifover al
lore peared after her arrival IN port.
ami The duaran tine law may now k,uendeG
and distinction, requiring but afw hour:
YER may be substituted 10; time c4ntion, S
wed Tar at least as respects The vesselpd cargo
c IN The theory that yellow feserf propa
ilfh, gated by germs from injected eents, aion
ifee- surfaces, In all directions. ana tbtti Is no
ats conveyed IN the atmosphere terwist
ent, seems best toexplsib lis phenonla. In
lua disease is Local and must be deg f,ed an
and lie sprei.dprevened by ioca .medies
, no CIhelic OF phemic aGds TX Il ~ 70 par5
oaks sites Tor germs of bath SYSTEM tanina
vely or vegetables ann,unced 10y iVfessu
In Gubier, of Psri, in lsA.
five w. Orls po,rd of Heathayo
uene Gu. since, and including 1870. acted u'1 thi
u knowledge ge-onls recently discoyehtlst
IL wbere-and applied cabolio acld tdfrL
.s.. infected surfaces, and tosurfaces 81 Vnd
,isin- ,u inp infected cenths or surfaces, 10th
'a:e t:s purpese of destroying ah prever'nlh
ti, muitiplca ion and disseIfin oi ysay
uo.n fever disease serma knowing that W
q 'hiH ia loco, all gfms, wae.ner arin
< yegeta Die, with which it cam in connct,,.
: " that none Of them could crde such , dl'
~ fected surface. Newgerm Sntree laa5
lo'eu formed by each newy diaased ps .ler
. VI although this is not akogeths settlat-
, ou' several days usually elapse betwisn,
o;o posure to disease garos andthe blaas
.nd out Of thu disease. Living gems ay
and and transported from place to plac.in cl'th
acss bedding, goods, etc, and coniti n'e'sss =
year, uieo"so ~ Iaoa';+r wbareveAits or
non should be operated upon, an,tes 500
tedly pa - a;sap.sa 1a,ms from ihs a
epi- epao -
cases ceh'io' Rpo.
or OF For SIX years the New ofieaG -
iy re- Health has systemaucaily pa Z ~
alth's this theory, and kepb recoi" !.
roved have given you an aceoang .
ect in them. Shsli the experl'pehC1n' IVY
at he called such ntW-oe coheihueu' n
were Through prejudice, or ignorance y
Fellow ideas OF econemy-at Inc rlsA Il
q few lives by the hundred or tpousapd and
Its Of legislation may SO hamles.
t four around the continuance Oh -
ts dis ments-if you choose go.
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