The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-06
THE EFFECT OF 1T.

THE EFFECT OFT
A study of the history of Memphis, New
Orleans, Galveston and other cities of tn,
South that have suffered from the periodic
al visits of the yellow fever, and the reflec
ton that all the cites of the Ohio valley
are, in climatical sense, as liable to vista
tons from the epidemic as Cairo is, assure.
us we need have no serious misgivings as t.
the effect our present affection will have
upon our future.
Nearly all of us will miss friends, q
number of us relatives, and in many fam
| lilies there will be, for season
yet, the evidences of sorrow and be.
reavement. But the claims of life are too
numerous and pressing to permit us to con.
time an indulgence of our "luxury of woe.
The living and our own multiplying needs
will divert our minds from the contempla-
ton of present sorrows, and the affairs OF
our life will soon be running in their ac-
customed channels 1t is blessed thing
that we are thus constituted--that
the griefs of to-day are forgot
ten tomorrow, and that the skies which
are dark and threatening now, will ere long
reveal their ''cerulean blue" and shower
down upon us but light and sunshine. In
other words, Cairo will soon forget the
pangs she has suffered, and move on, as of
old, to the achievement of her destiny.
This has been the experience of Memphis,
of New Orleans and all other cities of the
South that have been smitten with the vel.
low fever epidemic.
In the year 1920 the population of New
Orleans numbered $4,000 souls. During the
years 1919, 1892 and 1899 the city suffered
terribly from visits of the yellow scourge,
yet in 1880 the population had increased to
4G3lO. In 1883, 1885 and 1897, there were
epdemies, yet during that decade the
growth of the city was most wonderful-the
population in 1910, reaching lO3,1
Again in 1871, 1S43 and ls47 there were
epidemics, but still the census of 1850
showed population of 1855. 1858 was
the terrible epidemic year; 1853 was an
other epidemic year, but the census Of 1860
foots up population of 18S,475. In 1867
there was another epidemic and the census
of 1870 shows still further increase--191,-
AIS. From the little colony of Bienville of
fifty souls, in 1918, New Orleans has thus
gradually expanded its borders far out into
the erStwhile impenetrable swamp and along
the shores Of the Mississippi, from the
plains of Chamette to the upper line of
Carolton, has now a population Of 225,
600, and but for more direful calamities
than pestllence the census would show a
still more largely increased population.
The history of Memphis Galveston and
other southern cities, has been but coun-
terpart of that Of New Orleans. Nature
there, as here, furnishes ample compensa-
ton for occasional besetments, and time,
but short time, etfectually healed the
bruised hearts, and solaced the accompany
ing sorrows.
The conveyance Of the germs Of the dis
ease to Gallipolis, OHIO, and their develop
mcnt there to the destruction Of nearly OF
quite one hundred citizens, amply demon
states that if Cairo cannot claim exemption
from visits of the yellow plague, neither
can any of the cities or towns 81
the Ohio valley. Away of, more
than five hundred miles east Of the junction
OF these rivers, and in the heart Of the
State of Ohio, it ragged with more virulenct
than it did here; but there, as here, thu
cause Of its presence IL understood, anG
here, whether there or not, our experience,
has taught us how we may fence it out
and to say that the knowledge thus gained
will not be employed in the years to come
10 to say that we will have no care for ON
own lives, our property or Of anything els,
that renders life secure or gives valu'
to property. Az we have before re
marked, Mound City and Columbus, on
above and The other below, and both lyin,
almost directly on our borders, fenced gu
the pestilence, and kept II at bay, by tn
, establishment and maintenance Of an effe
tive quarantine. They had time to prot
by our experience, and did 80. The resul