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

\ ONVi Y'uh iouT UtgCk5 Vy LWcISG, | v
| in the Second eistriet. After disiDfection | c
was began' h0t yer. it confined the disease G
| to the alreaoY Infected district, and pre- q
med its difb 'io3, in an epidemic form, |
anv further
In large tn rent house, No. 230 Char
tres street, tMhining thirty rooms, occu- | ,
ped ty thirfyl.tlian families, numbering |
1888 persons, ttSt four took the fever before
disipteetiOn, al but two afterwards, out
of min ts-.wO Gmainiug unacclimated ill., |
mates.
In all, there Ira 5S7 yellow fever deaths
ia 1870: the last l.eurring December 4.
In Mobile, GisA'ection was not ATTEMPTED
as a preventive tueasure in 1870. aud the
disease Be came G,erally epidemic throug
out that city.
The experienceiaiaed in New Orleans, in
1870, was very zach in favor OF disin1ec-
| ton. Ii every fstance the evidence in
d,cated fayorabl results. Where it was
| resorted to the disease was stayed or
| stopped. Where Got-in cases where tne
owners OF houses or occupants retuSea 10
permit tit cont ued and increased. ihe
| Board of Health VA encouraged to repeat \
| the experiment nelt year.
In 1871, yellow yer was introduced INTO |
New Orleans at the time OF the breaklng |
out of the cargoesJf the brigs Mary Pratt |
AMI Hope, from Htvana. after their deten-
ton, without disi feetioo, at quarantine, |
early in August.
The prompt uself dsinfectants confined
the disease toa few localities. principally
above Canal street in New Orleans, ana
| the total numbtr q Gases IN the whole CITY
was but IA, of whrh fifty five were fatal.
Elsewhere, in svay Southern town, where
yellow fever appesed at ali that year anu
disinfection was ntt resorted 20 as pre-
ventre measure, it became epidemic. Ex-
perience az ain fumd he'd abundant evidence
m. tax hal b1ylt1 IL
{ troll by prompt, systematic and persist NJ
disinfection, and itk worthy OF notice tna'
few cases occurred, in 1871, in the localities
where it was most prevalent iu 1917, anu
where disintection mostly occurred.
r In 1872 the first case OF yellow fever
,Se Its Of the
; streets, on the eutskits of the infected dis
trict of 1871, resulting fatally.
: W all, there were skhty-three cases and
thirty nine deaths SIN yellow fever IN
1872 in New Orleans. axty-ons cases origi-
: mating in the Fourth District Cases oc-
curred in each Of the six CITY district-, but,
l. notwitbst auding gshe Lrge mortality in pro-
: ncrtinp to those attacked and the malig
> nant ct aracter of the disease, disinfectiun
p prevented its becoming epidemic any
g where.
remarkable that scarcely case oc-
= !, crrred il 1872 within the area where it pre-
v,lled mot in 1871. though it surrounded
3 that area, AVID but four cases in the Second
- D,stric-. v here it was 20 prevalent in 1870.
{ It did not reaopear in Gisinfected localities.
Again. in 1872 an abundance of statisti-
- cal evidence was furnished Of the very
- GREAT value of the system Of disinfectiOn
IN preventing the spread OF yellow fever,
~ ybich space will Dot permit Of being intro
- dlced here. Much experience, also, had
80 been Gained, 81 Tar, OF lie Dest m01es ol
= | procedur in such cases
as In 1873 the bark Valparaiso brought vel
ds low fever from Havana Cuba. and the nrs1
~ cpse-rbat Of the mate OF said yessei-cc
es curred july 1, on board the Valparaiso. op
Dos;te the head ot Second street. Fourth
-e district. Other cases occurred directly at
az | t4rward on board The 81 amboals Belle Lee
n and Pike, laid up in that immediate vlcin
70. itv, as we'll as nn shore in the neIghoorhood
~. krnru here the disease yas transmitted by
diseased pereons OF IN ected vessels 70 eaci
oI the six city districts, but agar, in colse
ne ouauca of pronpt aoi $ stematic disntec
OF non. il beca,ue epidemic IN none ct them
uot1iths landing its yer, early commence
,.s ment
jus In all 3SS eases cf Yellow fever oecurre
in New Orleans, inclui Ing A'glers, IN ~ .
the of " hich the very larga Number OF 20 wer
fatal. considerably rere than one nal
| showing the unusually malignant characte
ieu | Of The disease that yea
yht | In the First District there were 4o case
nm in tie Second. 81; in 'ne Third, IN; 10 u
Fourth, l23: in the Filth, "a; ID the Sixt
'ei. e, and the balance in Ire hospitals
and There can be no well founded doubt tn
the terrible yellow fever epldemce
Shreveport and Memphis in 1873 orlglaat
'"0 in, and were Transmitted from. Nav
, or leans The disease mist have been IRA
ted. | mtted there from here, and became
:; | demic, probably becaEe diaintectlon
'aa not attempted. if at all unit! too late:
'lld is said that feeble att'n.pt was mad'
arce Memphis to check the di'ease by the use
br.; disintectants after it hat become genera
epidemic. Disinfection t. be reliatle
re- useful, should begin witt the very first Ct
enoe aud follow up every CT Sc promptly
IN. tborou yhly. or be in advance of it II pra
cable. with tbs least possible loss OF y
val otherwise the Infection, like co.. iagrat
was will become uncontrolabla
own The cases Of fever brought hare f
eniy Memphis and Shreveport were no n
malignant than our own, and they 10
h1as test. identically Il g same symptoms.
bad The evidence is atundan -ipdetd o
Int VII. b.,rinc-that New Orle.ns was ga
f, I'm rerfiole yellow tevec epidemic
i'aA 1873. bv the efforts of the Board OF Etes
q lFrs it's sanitary corps and the use OF dlsio
out- tauts. Did sTace permit, lengthy S.
"a &c tical account, IN pro1t of this stat III
W. " ! mich he given, as contained IN the an
opted reutrt of the board for that year
st in Fvr instance, in the Fop,th Districs
y. be subsequent Cares uecu1ieu ~ ~ an';
lhith ous =: '"' .ha 'rauaIrino ice blocks.
E. another infected locality, OF twenty
INV half squares disintecgea. no suoseq
eases occurred in twenty Of them, ana
ere ten in he remaining five hsif squares:
Send ,ba Whole Fourth District. on $ ore, nil
aM. six persons took yellow fever before 9
fac.;nn. and but.twelve Afterwards I
=. occnrred in fiGtyrnine squares, within "
fi1er .he population was 6Si6 114a OF
preNt | ryars liaole to yellow lever. Whole
ctiono hsr of cases l23 including the shipping
In the Fifth District, Algiers, case
cnrred in thirteen blocks, bnt meme ~
crt: Of these after diiufection.. In the ,nfs ntt
1874 sanares, with a. population OF !a2'
Orles which number 2Fo were uhacciA'nA'S"
tUenty-six rook tae disease. !,
,;oo,st 'Nabila also wss saved from an epld
= orell ,s-sliow fever inlS73 by disir fection,
- ,;nns n, f.he first time. Pensacola, Meraph
anar n stsrsvenort. and ,snumber OF other pl
III. ara uer,, scou1 ged viii epidem'cs IN tha1
Aber.iR hanause. as is fulit believed, OF the
l Nuss Of disnfecsant.
tot;cai caiveston. Texas, which has repea
fse New suffered terribly Isn se'.ow 49,
gnlut tOldenpics, escaped WIN less nan a.i "a,
1,fen m "ston. had informed himself 1nl
N,d non ls,a,t;n~ the New Oskans Board of He
=, ,,iS, to Ers,an, of 6isinfectioi and highly app
rend ,as. HI Il In 1873 he ,ctrrien 1t INTO e Il
. Na!yeaton, and the following Is WI
u.- Ank Avs Of the result; 20 tnls cry .nsts t :
ou a hhe Eeyly. light or twentt-nines cases OF
On, nft "a. sar that | know d and perhaps
had 70 cine til After the rest
rec .inA,,a | M an and disinfecton in the frs
o AZ. O. Iad fortified ny belief that i