The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-11-23
How They View It.
New Orleans Picayune. !

The Chicago Times, of September
., undertakes an Interpretation of the
teachings of the epidemic, or as il
styles the epidemic, "this hell which
is torturing so much of the South"
The Times assumes that the horrid
accounts which reach the world are
far short of the "hideous total"
Our experience has been that reports
of mortality by an epidemic disease
always exceed actual facts. This is
especially the case where reports are
not made officially and regularly at
short intervals. But such reports
have been made in New Orleans
every day from the first definite man
Hesitation of the disease. Our daily
fever report of daily deaths, total
deaths, new cases and total cases are
as accurate and as full as profession
al, scientific and official care can
make them. The "hideous total" is
what is officially reported from day
to day with scrupulous verify. All
who are affected by this visitation,
whether present or absent, have the
means OF knowing actual results.
The Times takes novel view of
the prevailing afiliction and offers
consolation as follows:
distressing as Is an epidemic, II
performs excellent service in many
respects. II is natures scayenger;
engaged in the work of cleaning up
and il comes only TO those countries
which will not do the cleaning up
themselves. Neither yellow fever
nor cholera comes where it is not in
vited, or to any locality where there
is not made express provision for its
support. II may be most unwcl-
come guest, but those localities to
which ii comes have only themselves
TO thank, for it will neveI~cOmc with.
out billet of invitation, to be found
in intemperance of living and negli'
gcnce of cleanliness and attention to
diet"
This would be in some respects
lugubriously gratifying If 1t were moi
stupidity absurd and untrue. No,
only yellow fever and cholera, but
smallpox, measles and all other con
tagious or infectious diseases find
their victims in clearly habitations
surrounded by all the essentials 10
comfort and health, and in towns
and cities where thoughtful and wise
attention has been given to sanitar,
measures. II is not true that yellow
fever spares the pure, the aDstemi
Gus, the vigorous and the athleuc
however important il may be at al
times to practice moderation aud pro
mote bodily development. The pes
thence seems at times to go out o
its natural way to find isolated town
not denscly inhabited, where garden
and lawns separate neat residences
and where the the atmosphere Is ik'
that of the open country. Man.
stalwart men, many entirely health.
matrons, many hearty children, WIT
have never known intemperance II
any form, all living in neat and com
Portable homes, in towns remote iron
centres of infection, have fallen un
der the desolated pestilence. IN
Times might as well assert that snip
wreck is invited by the mariner AM
that tornadoes and cyclones are IN
''scavengers" of the great sea-. l
might as well say that consumption
that kills thousand where the yei
low fever kill some, is the "scavenger
of the North, invited by negligenc
and intemperance. 1t might as we .
attempt to throw the responsibility
of the sleet and snow, the storms an
biting frosts of northern winter
upon the people as to taunt the VIZ
tins of our ruthless scourge with o'
ing the producers of their own CT
Unity. ANS