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 E0ToP CrI1zEE:-While about 220 .of our fellow creatures are daily dying in e few Of cur cities by yellow fever, .evon an imperfecs compilation Of some .fac.s connected with the disease, may prove Interesting to you. -eaJe-o. The .statements given herewith are made from various a1thsli:iss, including reprints e statistics and current articles OF the present hsrv- est of death in our southern cities.
 CAUSES CT rEF DISEASE
 Up til -yeo, the disease wac regard led as having Q spontaneous origin, but in tlat year the doctrine Of infection was proclaimed. It appeared that year with great viruIence on the island eff Grenada and spread rapidly to parts 5s Pennsylvania, into Massachusetts. New York, Maryland, Tor.h Carolina and i1to South America. Tl.s spread in dicated infection, but is is ret cen elusive proof of t Many facts prove that local conditions create the disease. Foul streets, sewers, cesspoCIs CT some thing of the kind have much if not he sole agency in starting it. Thus in uly and August, 17C8, when .t al- most desolated New York, that cit7 contained about 5O,Oc0 people and some 3C,0CO suddenly sought safety in various places, mostly up and along tho Hudson. Hundreds of the Tunaways died, but net one of the residents of ,he towns t0 which they went. Not withstaucirg the present daily arrivals in many towns and cities throughout he country, from the infested cities of the south, the disease has not appeared ID them. A couple of deaths are re- ported in Chicago, but they were es- capes from ,he south. If ;Ee disease were infectious, would it rct now be raging in many northern cities? Many instances are recorded Of deaths be- cause of filth, pad ventilation and ether conditions favoring the fever, when in the same locality all others es- caped. The present sc0Grge appeared first at Grenada, Mississippi 1t is sad to have originated in e sewer under a stable where dead animals lay for several weeks under che .cil;-g July sun. The first death was n iady near the spot. The New Orleans Times $ inclined 10 attribute the cause of ,he present fever in that city 10 the fact that AOOG loads of kitchen garb- age had this year been used 10 fill streets in the front part of the city and says 1t can conceive of no more iH- famous wrong. In London in 1865, .he writers of that day say 10c,000 peo- ple died, and with all the departures to other cities, the disease was almost wholly confined to London and is suburbs. Lt was once asserted on high authcriti.y that the disease never ap- yeared ct an altitude above $500 feet; yet it seems to not only have prevailed out originated ct an altitude of ever. TOGO feet in Mexico-aEother proof Og filth creating it. Because ships carry it from port to port, it is called con- tagious, yet ships may and often do carry with them bilge water and filth containing the germs Of the disease, and when they enter e harbCr in this condition, they correspond exactly to| the sewer under the stable at Grenada, and the kitchen garbage in the frontI streets of New Orleans. Cholera isl spread by filthy travellers and checked by keeping cities thoroughly clean and only admitting cleanly persons. The most foolish and wicked Of all theories advanced for these endemics, or epidemics if ;hey be such, is that they are visisations Of God. Human filth and cerelessness probably origi- nate them all. $ Philadelphia Ledger writer tersely and beautifully says:
 Providence gives us the snap of the frost crystal, the fine sitting Of the snow, the searching salt breeZes of. ocean and the winnOwing winds that sweep along in the track of purifying storms. Man gives us the neglected houses and ree6ing courts and alleys, the crowded and dirty sleeping raOms, the foul cellar and the overlooked gar bage heap.
 FATALITY OF THE DISEASE.
 To September g, this year, inc New York Tribune's sd7ices placed the yellow fever deaths in our southern cities ct 6.G79, and to October 2, at s,G34, showing a daily average Of 220 between those dates. New Orleans.