The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08
5OME FAUsS sHOUT Willow
FEVER.

BOME FAUsS ABOUT Willow
FEVER.
D.. Dwell, Of Galveston, has pub |
iished an exhaustive dissertation on
{ yellow fever and enriched it with a |
1map of the Uuited States, on which he
bss delineated, in the color peculiarly
Suggestive of the disease, the zone
within cur republic in which are locs
led all places heretofore visited by the
pestience. That me is bounded on
the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on
the east by the Atlantic ocean and its
western and northern limits are indica-
ted By line of varying curvatures ex-
tending from Brownsville, Texas, to
Boston, Massachusetts,. In connection
with the name Of each place within
this zone, in which at any previous
time the disease has prevailed, the
D ctor hes set down on his map its
altitude above tide water. This ex-
hibit of places visited by yellow fever
and their respective ell Yations shows
that the highest locations in the Uni
ted States, so far invaded, are Win
chester, Virgiois, 700 feet; Bald E lgle
Valley, Pennsylvania, $50 feet; Nit
-.aay. Pennsylvania, $50 feet; Cinciu-
natl, Ohio. $50 feet; Galipolis, Ohio,
$40 feet; F rt Smith, Arkanaas, AGO
feet; Louisville, K.ntucky, $50 feet
Little Rick, Arkansas, $50 feet;
Brandon, Mississippi, 800 feet; Can
ton, Mississippi, 800 feet; New Design,
Missouri. 40 feet; ST. Louis, Missouri,
475 feet; Brcnham, Texas, 800 feet
Calvert, Texas, S25 feet; C0rsicans,
Texas, 800 feet; Millican, Texas, 300
feet. Tue same authority shows that
New Orleans, situated 10 feet above
tide water, since 1863, has had 65 visi
tations Of the disease. Charleston, 10
feet, since 1899 has had SO visitanons.
e4vannah, Georgia, 80 feet, since 1907,
has been scourged 10 times; Calves
ton, Texas, feet, since 1889, has suf-
-fered 10 times; Houston, so feet, since
1889. has, in 10 different years, been
visited by the fever; Philadelphia,
P nnsylvania, 3J feet, since 1742,
s has been scourged 80 times; New
York City, 80 feet, since 1868, has
had it 90 lines; B ,lrimore, Maryland,
90 feet, since l794, has had IA Wis
itslions; Pensacola, Florida, 10 feet,
since 1894, has had 90 vIsitations; Mo-
bile, Alabama, 90 feet, since 1905. has
had 20, and Matches, Mississippi, $50
-ksea-aiAaG-l sIz- hn. bad q I.iaita4ieAas
ell IN his publication before alluded to,
IL appears that of the places in the
.-united States thus far ravsged
by yellow fever, 149 have an elevation
above tide water from 5 TO 100 feet; SO
have an elevation not les. than 100 feet |
nor exceeding 200 leet; IL not lees than |
200 feet nor exceeding 800 feet; not |
I'd than 800 feet nor exceeding 4NsTl
~ not lees than 400 not *. |
ceeding 900 feet; 4 not e<1eeding $50 |
feet, and having an elevation ofs7O0 !
feet. A clear inference from the data |
lie that yellow fever, In our coun- |
Atry, revels chi. fy in localities little /
lifted above the sea level. The fact
lat in one instance, when attracted By
inconceivable filth, it has climbed to an
elevation of zoo feet, should cause the
people of Austin to use every reasona.
bic means within their reach to protect
their city against its invasion. They
should remember that to attack them,
the terrible pestilence will not
have to climb quite as far
As 1t did to reach the people of Win
chester, Virginia. There is scarcely
point within the corporate limits of
Pu,tiD as much as 700 feet above tide
water. The freight depot of the Hous-
ton and Texas Central Railroad has an
elevation o. $50 feet, and the site of
the meridian monument, east of the
capitol, has an altitude above tide
water OF ESQ feet Few locations with
In the city are materially higher than
the site of thai monument. According
&c DR.. Dowell, yellow fever has existed
in twenty ght States of our Uoion-
s26 cities and towns Of these States
have been, TO a'gres,er OF less extent,
desoiaied by 1t, aud it has appeared
al times, causing total of 65, SI1
deaths.
Il Is earnestly hoped that the people
of Austin will heartily second the eff
forts Of our city authorities to keep
away from our homes the pestilence so
much to be feared. Every household
.cE should DO on the alert to have his
premises IN y ssa'e of thorough elsanli-
ness. He should use disinfectants-car l
bolic acid and oepperAs-abandantly,
and II throughout the city the usual
precautions are adopted, though the
disease reach our coast towns, we may
confidently believe that our people,
even II the sick aud dying are brought
hither, will escape. as in former years,
the terrible sccurge.
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