The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-14

M without any other detention.
Discharge at once every man who refused TO
work ON Sunday without extra pay.
O. 8. chopin, M. D.,
President Board Of Health.
resolution from those on board this steamer
wss also read, oondemning the detention Of the
vessel for thirty hours.
| communication was presented from Cohen
N. S0ria relative TO the discrimination made
against traffic by sea to that By land.
The president stated that he thought ii proper
to include Pensacola as q pt eoautonary measure:
10 have vessels fumigaled arriving from that
port.
On motion or Dr. Austin, the petition of Mr..
Soria was received.
Mr.. Mott Offered resolution that committee
of Three be appointed to investigate into the de-
tention Of vessels at the Mississippi quarantine
station, and the manner OF use Of caibolic acid
there. Carried.
Col. Hardee then offered q resolution that.
whereas information has been received that the
crew of the quarantine station refused TO per-
form their duties in fumigsting the steamer
Alabama on Sunday last, resolved that this crew
be notified that their services are not required
| after the expiration Of this month. Carried.
The sanitary inspector Of the Fourth District,
DR.. Holt, made report relative to the recent
deaths occurring in the family of Jos. A. OBrien,
on Josephine street.
had inspected the premises referred TO and had
requested the inspector to examine the sink in
the building. He did not think the symptoms
| those of lead pipes. He said that he would take
| this occasion TO enter his protest against the
habit OF street cleaners of scraping up the matter
| from the cutters and shoveling them in small
piles on the streets, to be washed back after
each rain. He referred TO the number of deaths
Occasioned in Gen. Wilkinsona army here In 1908
| by bowel complaints.
| DR.. Joseph Jones sustained bis observations In
the production OF acu dysentery by local causes,
and his protest against the method Of cleaning
streets enforced by the municipal authorities OF
| Orleans foil ali ti atin Ina.
trating the mortality oeossioned In New Orleans
during the past ten years by diseases OF sthe
| bowels:
MORTALITY oocAstoFED IN NEW ORLEANS DURING
PERIOD OF TEN YEARS. 1866 TO 1876 tNoLU-
sIyE, BY DISEASES OF THE BOWELS.
| 1866-Total deaths from all causes, TEA: Ash
alto cholera caused 1894 deaths, as follows: July
| 3d. August 500, september 49, October I66, No
| veInber AZ, December &C. During the period e1-
| tending from June /, 1886, to January 1, 1867
cholera infantum caused 70. cholera morbus 81,
| Inflammation OF bowels az, diarrhpa 20s, dysen-
terry 1863. Total deaths from diseases Of the
bowels, 1866. during Six months, June 1 to De-
oember 81, 1861.
| In 1867 Asiatic cholera caused 5s1 deaths chol-
| era infantum 100 cboiera morbus 46, congestion
| OF bowels ID, darrhra 205, dysentery $50, en-
terocolitis 81, inflammation OF bowels 81. Bowel
| affections, therefore, caused 1919 deaths.
The total deaths for the year 1867 were 1009G
| and Of this aumber $3.50, or more than one-half,
were caused by fevers and bowel affections; and
two diseases generally regarded SO exotios and
| OF foreign origin-namey, yellow fever and
Asistio cholera, caused 1888 deaths, or one death
| In az deaths from all causes.
| 1S68-Total deaths from all causes 5343, from
| cholera 129, cholera infantum 85. cholera morbus
~, diarrhma 49, dysentery l6i Inflammation Of
bowels 30; total deaths from diseases Of bowels
4Y9.
1860 Total deaths COOL: cholera 4, cholera in
fantnm 56, cholera morbns o. congestion of
bowels :. diarrhma los. dyaentery 1853, infsmma-
tion Of bowels 3d. enterocolitis 35. Total deaths
from bowel affections ego.
1870-Total deaths from ell causes 1891:
from cholera 3, cholera infantum 65, cholera
morbus ID, congestion of bowels ID, diarrhea
l65., dysentery 1884, Inflammation Of bowels 1O4;
total deaths from diseases Of bowels 500.
187l-Total deaths from all causes 6O5g:
from cholera 6, cholera lnfantum 81. cholera
morbus 10, disrrhga 1885, dysentery 155, indsm-
nation OF bowels 1U6: total bowel affections ga
1872-Total deaths 6l22; cholera infantum 81
cholera morbua 20. diarrhna 1876. dyaentery 1873
tiops 440,
1878 Total deaths 1906; diseases of the bowels
caused respectively the following deaths. oho-
era sporadica fAsatc oholera) 142, cholera
infantum liz, cholera morbus 90, darrhPa 900
dysentery 155 Inflammation of bowels 1863; total
deaths from bowel affections 1878.
1874 Total deaths 6795. Of which cholera spo-
rSdioa caused g. cholera morbus ii cholera in.
fsntum 80, darrbms 1872, dysentery 100, inf am
nation OF the bowels lao; total deaths from bowel
affections AGO.
1875-Total deaths Gilt; of which cholera spo
rsdioa caused 4, cholera ipfsntum 100, cholera
morbus 12 darrhna 1877. dysentery 1876. ipfam-
nation of the bowels 1Oi; total deaths from
diseases Of the bowels 5l3.
During period Of ten years, 18661875 ipcu-
sive, the total mortality from all Cruises excud-
ing still-born in New Orleans was go, 1856; and OF
this mortality the various diseases OF the bowels
accustomed 746O deaths, or one death in go deaths
from all causes.
large proportion of the mortality from bowel
affections in New Orleans is due to preventable
causes, az defective drainage, defective sewage.
TO the passage into the cutters of large suanti-
ties OF exorementtiOns matters from the hotels
hospitals and other public institutions and to
the injurious custom pursued by the city author
tiles OF raking up the foul deposits of the cutters
into the streets and allowing them to exhae Of
fenslve and noxous and poisonous gases under
tropical sun.
The history Of large armies and of every
siege has demonstrated that purifying vegets-
bic and animal matters, and especially the exbala
lions OF exoremonttions matters are the most
prolific annrnee of the most destructive forms Of
m Malignant diarrhna and dysentery.
Col. Hsrdee offered q resolution that the &C.
ton OF the president. in giving the instructions
TO fnmigate the steamship Alabama, be sp-
The committee appointed to investigate the
matter at the quarantine was Mr.. Mott, DR.. Jones
aDd DR.. Austin.
The following letter was read by the secretary
PAscAGoULA, september IL.
DR.. Austin:
Dear S6-Your note Of TO- day received In re-
ply will give You all the information I possess
The schooner W. FL. Knight, of Baltimore en-
tered this port on the LIST inst. after passage of
four days from Havana. The vessel was in a
perfect sanitary condition, and all healthy on
board. According to our regulations / placed
her in quarantine. On the morning of the ID one
OF the crew. mulatto, was taken with a chill.
followed by fever. The captain had him removed
Immediately from the foreoaste, and entirely iso-
lated from the rest of the crew nat is allowing
no communication with any one except himself
Upon visiting the vessel found it case of vel
low fever, and 80 reported it to the Board of
Health. The man passed through all the stages
of the disease to convalescence. Up to the pres
ent writing no more 1905 have occurred on board |
The vessel has been thoroughly fumigated, and |
ia now in perfect sanitary condition.
Respectfully,
It. M. BLOUNT, M. D., /
Port Physician.
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