The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-22
FEVER STRICKEN NEW ORLEANS.
The Sickness Still spreadIng-Precautions
Against Increased Maugnancy.
NEW ORLEANS, Sunday, Aug. IL.

Against Increased MnIYnaucy.
NEW ORLEANS. Sunday, Aug. IL.
Although the yellow fever continucs
to spread here it contin ,es to be Of O
mild type. The Board of Health has de-
cided to continue the quarantine against
vessels coming from infected ports, on
the ground that far more malignant
form of the disease than now exists might
be introduced. Sister Loyola Lawler
died of the fever on Thursday. -Four
new cases arc reported at Port Eads.
During the twenty-four hours, ending at
IL O'Clock yesterday, there were thirty
i've new cases and eight deaths. Since
then, 20 the same time to-day, there have
been twenty-five new cases and fourteen
deaths. AT Port Esds, 80 far, there have
been altogether five deaths and twenty
five cases.
A private letter from New Orleans to
Dr. +. ii: Babbit Of Philadelphia, under
date OF July 80, says the physicians en-
deavor to keep quiet about the prevalence
of the yellow fe er, and succeeded meas
urably for three weeks or more, until it
had broken out in four or FIVE different
parts of the city, when the truth could
be concealed no longer. This cores
|
Then ensued panic such ae is rarely
witnessed. The people left ir cxowds,
!. by every possible moe cf conveyance.
but there is still abundance of new ma
terial for tho plague to work upon, and
we oil know from its being 80 widespread
that neither carboliC acid nor ANYTHING
else can stay its progress. 1t will prove
great calamity to COR commerce.. AL
ready we are shut out from all the world.
| and our fall traje, which was lust be-.
ginning, is virtually gone. Bagging Or
dcrs for towns along the river and Texas
| Rave been countermanded by telegrnms,
and cotton will be late coming in. Yes
sells will not come TO an infected port,
and our harbor will soon be bare Of ship
ping. 1t is sad pr0spect-too 80! ow-
full and pa:nfa! to contemplate. The
people who have gone away will not re.
turn until cold weather comes. Mean
while our streets will be nearly deserted" !"
| The New Orleans Times Of the I'd in
slant reports that very many children are
being attacked by yellow fever in that
city, and remarks: "The health authori.
ties cay that tho timc-honored theory
that natives are exempt from the disease
Is exploded by actual experience. They
state that the reason why children o
tender years are attacked now is because
this is the first time since their birth
they have been liable to attack. MOI
since 1867 has the disease been general
and many now sick were born since thon
The sporadic cases that have occurred
within the last eleven years were con
fined to specific localities and kept with
in restricted limits by disinfection
Children, although residents of the city
remained away from the infected dis
tricts, and, of course, were no more liable
than they would be in the mountains
1t is believed by the health authoritie.
that every resident of the city must pas
through some species Of acclimation. Ir
the cases of some children the disease il
80 masked that it is impossible to dag
nose it, and in their opinion the. reason
why 30 many children are sick now is be
catiHe for the first time in their lives tht
atmosphere has been in miasmatic con
dition TO bring on the disease. Th,
health authorities claim an unanswerabl.
demonstration of the beneficial results O
carbolization, stating that in every 10
cality where carbolic acid has been freely
spfinkled the disease was checked. Con
stance street, near Race, is cited rs ar
example; the neighborhood of the Com
mercial Hotel is given as another in
stance. The sanitary authorities ar.
promptly disinfecting every locality
where the disease makes its appearance
and hopo in the end to accomplish it
suppression"
There has been no epidemic in New
Orleans since 1853, when threo hundred
deaths were reported in one day. On,
day in the middle of August OF that yea
the interments reported were 3I5. Thi
10 still known rs the "Black Day" ane
never since or before was that numbe
reached.