Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-02
1hs Daily 4rsss and 9atstaiaa
YANKToh DAKOTA
Monday Evening, Sept. 2, 1879
the SOUTHERN EPIDEMIC.

THE SOUTHERN EPIDEMIC.
Scientific View Of the Yellow Fever -
IL IL In New Orleans-Grenada Literally
Depopulated-The cold Water Treatment
and its Effects.
New York Herald.
A SCIENTIFIC REVIEW.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. "a, 1878.
10 the Editor Of the Herald.
When disease and death are in the land
and terror reigns supreme in city, village and
hamlet, it is a common duty We owe to hui
humanity to contribute all that within US lies
to enlighten our fellow mortals. With this
in view 1 submit the following to the many
readers of your excellent paper:
Long before the yellow fever had made
its appearance in this city it had decimated
Biloxi, a place Of some two thousand inhab.
itants on the gulf coast about eighty miles
from here, carrying off in a few days one
gular fact is that from the settlement of this
city in 1922 to 1744 there had been no instance
of yellow fever-a fact, more than wonderful
when it is remembered that New Orleans
was In easy communication with Havana,
where it had been prevalent 300 years before.
From 1894 to 1897 the disease continued,
the average mortality being one in fifteen.
For q number Of years the proportion of
deaths from yellow fever was over five per
cent. The year 1917 was considered a bad
one; the percentage Of death to the total
number of cases. was 30. SO. The years 1922
and 184l we're very fatal; in the latter
1925 out of $4,000 subject to the disease
w. 49, LIZ. r".a ~ ao-o Me 'H.
&C., w. ~ S e no. &C.. o So. - 100 eae !, =; 10
81 "a. Tow 800 ~ 1esn - 90 .aooSe ~
, 900 100 Nna, 49, t9oT ~, !. ~ 20. ~
e.. 80 10 da ~ ..e'e .aas:s.ii on 70 ~ au usae en'
~ ,oa7 1n ~ W. .epe.II. CIV ~ - "'e ~,
100 nue u ep.I ,Ee ~. ma
> ooe .ne UlNamy "eie NV VI ""ic"
% d." VII. si ,. ,aon ye'low ,ssea. .,
,n Dr o. m;,Is rsuaes s IL nnnn .aa,
onm;ap am NJ. ,a,u u'' So " .9ov 1n1 !, 'n a.
op r;a,. q n one ,u.al o W "n,,a mu'1 as,i'i ~ y.
"a 1 ~" ho, ae J = G !" 10. e a. ~. ,oe
.th oa oss eor anous, e 90 fsom ~ s aoJ uat y.r Voc
nth - . tool 81 daa,hs ~ asa y 'rLa aon,ia
wv, ~ = w., 10 H. ~. . " !. ,ho - ~ sms p4Ia.a
;om !. - ", ~ :, az nnn ~ ia W. " "a. ep.u 1h
:" Nv. was v"enoi; ,uato ~ o. 200: So oo H"u ,h,,s 'n n;s WV =
,aor,a,;," ~ am. ~. ~ G SoSs t ,hn, tt, 49, .
ra,a m,oh orea,er ,h.n ,h.. 70 ,ha ar.. Z
n1so,'a IN t'nndon whara IN. a.aths So ae !.
pm .a-a 90 noo mi ~ a non,ia,;on 81 .
500 q
Tins far there have been anon, twen,,
enidemics IF The ve,iov fever in th;s c;tv
i during the n,st scventv veore
: The number of deaths since the com.
mencement Of the nresent endemic reachc
something over FIVE hnnd or the nre.
sent endemic will Give vt,nr readers som,
Observations. and let The readers draw fhei
II own conclusions. It is claimed bv som,
that the Steamship Emily r. Sender. rnn-
ming from this port TO Havana. brought tn,
: first case of yellow fever this season. Tn,
man from the Souder died at No. 6 Clai-
borne street. on the 4th of June. and wa,
buried on The certificate that he died q
conpestiye fever. There has been no cas-,
of fever near No. 65 Claiborne street a,
far, and the majority of the deaths from vel
low fever have occurred fully a mile from
there. 1t is claimed BY some that th
filthy condition of the streets had caused tn
yellow fever. From my personal observa
i ton l cannot see any difference in the con
u dition of the streets now and in forme
years when We had no fever.
Another singular fact is that the frs
death from yellow fever occurred on th
" a neighborhood OF the wealthy, q fact tn
that New Orleans has very few pave'
streets, and, further, that by far the large:'
8 lumber OF deaths are on the streets vel
paved ana near the mississippi RIVER, VIM
= out IN the rear portion, where INC dralnln
canais are reeKlng WIN nlln, wlere oea
= oogs ano ca's are noa'lng a1ouho, VII
green scum nearly swo incnes 'nlck, WI
.ne 10. sun pouring 9 10 upon slem a.
.snpe,a.uIe taoou. " ueEsses snlenAei
,ne'e nas W. oesn : s'ns < E Eea.a iiom seI
, NV .i uhata a, ,ha ~ w .ne . nnau 4 fse h.a
a.nd I dss;h mu fsnn 'n nei,o WEE sa,s us.. a Hve n NJ.
dae,h hoa ooo,rrsS ''0 = y e., e .n ~ 4, ~ ~ :,
%a~ I he u ss;d Of the F;f IN d d1s oau s; ,u , san =
he river snrronnded NV swsmns snd va .
fithvy ~
By far the largest mortality has hee
!. among children. fnilv e;ehtv.6ye nor No,
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