Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-04

he city IL at last clean. Late news
s prediction of . storm, which
will be likely to bring a crisis in
the disease--a change for the worse
or better.
OF course the yellow fever could
not be confined to New Orleans,
with her people scattering In all
directions. 1t was in vain that
the municipal authorities formally
voted that visitors from the plague
spot should not enter. A quick re-
sort to cleanliness was more to the
purpose, but too late to be always
effective. Point Eads, settle
ment of workmen on the jetties at
the mouth Of the Mississippi, a few
miles below New Orleans, was the
first place to which the fever went.
In o malarlal marsh, ii is not sur
prislng that au uncommonly fatal
form of the disease killed nearly
every person 1t attacked. How.
ever, the residents were few, and
those who could get away lost no
time In doing SO. Work on the
jettiAs is forgotten, and the little
village, heretofore bustling with
activity, is describe As hospital.
Only the patients, nurses and a
physician are there. -
Dread of the pestilence was
quickly shown throughout the
South, and measures Of safety
were hastily taken in most of the
larger cities. In most instances
rigid guarantees were established;
but some cities, like Louisville,
did not attempt to exclude all Wis.,
itors from the infected regions, but
relied rather on more enlightened
sanitary defenses. There were vii
lagos, however, that were supine
In their fright, and did nothing to
avert what they dreaded. Grenada
was one OF these, and for her all
the possible horrors of the disease
were reserved. Grenada Is in Mis-
sissippI, at the head of steam boat
Navigation on the Yallobusha
river, 275 miles north of New Or-
leans, in q direct line of railroad
Communication. The population
Is about 600-enodgh to make a
village needing an efficient Health
Department, without having one.
The fever broke out suddenly and
| with great violence on August 10.
The first persons To be stricken
down lived near where an old
sewer had just been opened, letting
out q great stencil from decaying
carcasses, and the physicians be.
lieved for awhile that the fever
was typhoid; but they soon recog-
nIzed 1t for what it was-yellow
fever In its worst possible aspect.
There were eleven cases and three
deaths the first day; on the second,
twenty-one more persons were
stricken aud seven died; on the
third the figures were ITO and Is.
The place had been handy refuge
for New Orleans fugitives, who
carried the fever that they meant
to leave behind. One story is that
the scourge came in dress re-
ceived by Grenada belle from its
maker in New Orleans; but it is
only certain that the dress came to
her and that she died. There had
been no quarantine, and one OF
many of the visitors from New Or
leans, without doubt, brought the
disease. The inhabitants, half of
whom were negroes. had been liv-
ing as though filth was not danger
Gus in a hot climate during pes
tilential season. There were no
public sanitary regulations, and
| the streets were never thoroughly
cleaned. 1t is no wonder that the
seeds of yellow fever, sown in such
a field, sprang up quick and rank
The telegraph has kept our read
ers advised of the further progress
of the scourge and its spread to
Memphis and other cities. Gases
Of it have even been reported from
Pittsburgh and New York The
mortality has gone on steadily in
creasing and the end is not yet.