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 Malignancy.
NEW ORLEANS. Sunday, Aug. II.

NEW ORLEANS, Sunday, Aug. IL.
Although the yellow fever continues
to spread here it continues to be of q
mild type. The Board of Health has de-
cided to continue the quarantine against
vessels coming from infected ports, on
the ground that q 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 are reported at Port Eads.
During the twenty-four hours, ending at
II o'clock yesterday, there were thirty
FIVE new cases and eight deaths. Since
then, to the same time to-day, there have
been twenty-five new cases and fourteen
deaths. At Port Eads, so 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 fever, 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.
.pondent continues:
"Then ensued panic such as is rarely
witnessed. The people left in csowds,
|. by every possible mode of conveyance,
but there is still abundance of new ma
terial for the plague to work upon, and
we all know from its being so widespread
that neither carbolic acid nor anything
else can stay its progress. 1t will prove
a great calamity to our commerce. AL
ready we are shut out from all the world,
and our fall trade, which was just be-
ginning, is virtually gone. Bagging or
ders for towns along the river and Texas
have been countermanded by kilograms,
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. It is a. sad prospect-too sorrow
full and painful 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: 9The health authori-
ties say that the time-honored theory
that natives are exempt from the disease
is exploded by actual experience. They
state that the reason why children ol
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 then
The sporadic cases that have occurred
within the last eleven years we're 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
It is believed by the health authorities
that every resident of the city must pass
through some species of acclimation. In
the cases of some children the disease il
80 masked that it is impossible to dag.
nose it, and in their opinion 4 the reason
why so many children are sick now is be.
cause for the first time in their lives the
atmosphere has been in q miasmatic con-
dition 10 bring on the disease. The
health authorities claim an unanswerable
demonstration of the beneficial results o.
carbolization, etating that in every 10.
cality where carbolic acid has been freely
spfinkled the disease was checked. Con.
stance street, near Race, is cited as ar
example; the neighborhood of the Com.
| mercial Hotel is given as another in.
stance. The sanitary authorities are
promptly disinfecting every locality
| where the disease makes its appearance
and hope in the end to accomplish its
suppression"
There. has been no epidemic in New
Orleans since 1858, when three hundred
deaths were reported in one day. One
day in the middle of August of that yeal
the interments reported were Bis. Thi!
is still known as the "Black Day." and
never since or before was that number
reached. N