The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-01
THE DEVIOUS WAYS OF VEL.
LOW JACK"
Instructive Examples of Communi-
cation Of the Fever by Mail and
otherwise, Even by Ship
ment of Ice.

n noaru OF Health, IN placing the
strlctest quarantine upon this port
mas met with very general APPROX
al IN this city, it has exasperated
many persons who are disposed to
claim that the quarantining of pas
sehgers on the trains, and especially
OF mails, is the veriest nonsense. ii
Is commended seriously, by many that.
II Galveston will continue TO main,
tam a good sanitary condition, the
yellow fever is not to be feared, and
mat the serious distractions placed
upon commerce by the quarantine
are mere grains of comfort to sootbe
Ola women, doing serious damage on
one hand and doing no good on the
other. This difference of opinion
caused reporter to call upon DIR. T.
d; Heard, who is recognized as a
physician of eminence, and one who
IN lifetime practice, has frequently
treated the disease.
DIR. Heard stated that from the
year 1889 to 1858 he had no reason to
believe in the commandments of
the disease either by infection or con-
lagoon. In 1858, however, Mr.. b. X.
i1ucker, postmaster at Washington.
on the Brazos river, was taken down
with the fever. Washington at that
time was distributing point for the
surrounding country, and the Gal
weston and Houston mails came TO
llie Town at night, when Mr.. Rucker
would open them. Yellow fever
was at that time raging in both Gal
weston and Houston, and Mr.. Ruck-
er undoubtedly caught the disease
from infected mail bags. He con-
veyed the disease TO his family, but
further than this it did not spread.
About the middle of October. 1858. |
MIR. Richard Niblett, now of Bren-
ham, owned a drinking saloon in
Washington. He received his ice
from Houston every night, and open
ed 1t personally. He had a most vi
olent attack of fever. About the last
OF the same month Jos. Brooks and
Mife, OF Aavasota, had the fever in
New Orleans and came to Washing
ton, stopping at the house of a Mr..
Nurse, in the suburbs of the CITY.
Mr.. Hurse, his wife and two chill
dren, caught the fever and died. In
1868, about October l, man from
Orange came 10 Houston with his
wife and stopped at house near
hennedy's mill. When DIR. Heard
arrived the man was dead, and the
wife dying of yellow fever. The dis
ease extended in the immediate
leighborhOod, and took direct
course along Buffalo bayou. follow
ng the direction of the prevailing
wind. About December /, 1864,
Mrs. Vincent. sister of eX-Lieut. Gov.
Henderson, fled from Houston on
recount of the yellow fever. A ne
gro left behind took the disease. and,
Is there was a great lack of blankets.
IN old carpet was used instead. On ;
lis recovery the carpet was slowed i
way in the garnet. Six weeks af-
erwards Mrs. Vincent returned. and, !
.oing into the garnet, took the car ,
ret out to air it. Four DAYS after
his she had a most violent attack.
pr: Heard continued the recital of ,
WSsRauaseszsstssEe-<1 esezsttnp~zptsa
20 kept even for months ia am ,
Id bl,sd&et or some such substance,
nd the deduction from these facts in !
'ractiee is very clear. When asked !,
pecially as to whether he beloved
nails were likely to convey the fatal
-erms, he required to the case of Mr.. !.
fucker, postmaster at Washington, :
nd stated that there could be no /,
loubt that in this ease at least the
disease had been so conveyed. An !
'ther reason that increased the dam ,,
+er of mails was the fact that a bag |,
# matter might be fairly presumed !
o contain some letters from the in :
ected districts of city. The doc !
rine advanced by some that the car !,
,olic acid used in the manufacture of :
,aper would neutraliZe the poison ,
rus germ was, in his opinion, falla- !
", for the reason that carbolic acid
: exceedingly Galceston
NeUS.