The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-08-20

There is little or no ground for any alarm
about yellow fever in New York We may
have u frw cases imported here. a We Ito
every summer, but the disease can become
epidemic only through gross carclcs-ncs-
on the part or our Quarantine and Health
Unlcors, and If that, happily we need have
no fear All that Is necessary l. To kc, p up
a strict quarantine. isolate such persons ~
may come hither with the disease, and
thoroughly fumigate thcirhuggogc. II that
is done. a. it undoubtedly will loo done, we
shall know little Of yellow fever in New
York between this time and the coming If
the frost. which Will Kill the seeds OF the
malady.
So far this summer, letwocn thirty and
forty cases have been under treatment at
Quarantine. hut az present there are only
three yellow fever patients there and one
of these Is conyalescont. A. the season adj
vances We shall as a matter Of course, have
more and perhaps many. cases under the
care OF DR.. VANDERPoEL, the Quarantine
Dnicer but with the exercise Of ordinary
vigilance he can keep the disease within the
limits OF his secluded hospital, and proven.
any possibility Of it, spi cad bymeans Of the
spores which may be contained in the clothes
Of the patients.
Fortunately the city is unusually clean
Tor August, and cleanliness il one of the
best safeguards against the malady which
Is devastating Grenada, ana frightening the
citizens of Memphis. while in New Orleans
the path Of its progress is through the por-
tions Of the town where sanitary laws are
most disregardei The work Of street clean
ing in New York this summer has been
largely done for US 10y the forces Of nature
by the frequent and abundant rains but
howsoevcr it may have been done, the city
is now remarkably free from the fostering
causes Of disease and our death rate Is low
for the metropolis.
Tho accounts from the South show that
the epidemic is rather diminishing than in
rreasing The presence Of the disease seems
TO have produced very little terror at New
Orleans, where ii first made its appearance
in this country, for the inhabitants are
aware that II Is under check; and even at
Memphis, where there has been a real yell
low fever panic, the people are beginning to
recover their senses.
Up to last Saturday the total num-
Dor OF cases in New Orleans had been
US, and the deaths 2GG; but the dis
tase has not spread over the whole city,
Ind II IS not gaining much Roadway.
Even at Memphis, from which the people
have fled by thousands. there were reported
by the Board Of Health last week only
twenty-siX deaths by yellow fever and the
new cases Of the malady are not numerous.
The epidemic, so far rs it exists at all. Is
confined 10 a narrow district, amt there
seems to have been little cause for the panic
which drove the citizens away, aud induced
Them to leave their houses unprotected
against thieves. The only place, indeed,
where yellow fever can be said to have
reached an alarming epidemic form is
Grenada, and there the opening Of Il foul
Sewer paved the way for its rayages.
Al Nicksburg there are good many cases
OF the dreaded disease and the pious, by dl-
roction Of their spiritual guides, are pray
Ing against It's progress, but the peoplo do
not yet seem to be excited TO great alarm.
At Mobile the Health Officer Is in doubt
whether the death OF mulatto woman was
caused by yellow fever or not Nowhere on
the Gulf of Mexico. indeed except at New
Orleans, has the malady yet done much
harm; but all the cities in communication
with New Orleans arT vig1lunt in their quar-
nutine. ST. Louis, far up the Mississippi
River, is carefully examining all north
bound trains TO discover imported cases Of
yellow lever but at last accounts that city
wls free from the disease Wilmington and
Norfolk. which were once devastated Ly the