The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-19

should hear from your distant cores
.pondenN
So hcrs goes for avery brief and
hastily written letter in order to be in
time for your next issue.
Youshave doubtless seen my letter to
the New Orleans Times Of the 18th
inst, regarding tie disease prevailing
at this point. and called by many the
yellow fever. in which I stated I did
not and could not bel,eve it was the
above named disease. Since that time
/ have had an opportunity Of seeing
the disease in the hight of the fever as
we'll as after the fever had subsidized.
and am now prepared from octual OBJ.
~servatlon in all its various stages to
~reiterate my former sta cement, viz:
THAT the epidemic now prevailing at
Osyka. is not yellow fever. Drs. Jones
and Ellis are improving and with oldi-
nary care will be on the streets again
in q few days. ~ =
This disease. I viii admit, assumes
some of the characteristics Of yellow
fever, end in some four or five cases
has proven fatal. but when.we come to
consider that tn ere has been mp to date
some seventy five cases of the disease
attended by the most intense excite
ment generated by the belief chat the
dread seodl eoE. yellow fever did really
exist in our midst. and without the aid
of either experie iced doctors or nurses
in that disease. that all have recovered,
with the above exception, is, to say the
least. a very clear proof that yellow
fever, if such it ia. has been very kind
to this Community. ,:rlL9 @N go
Mrs. Loeb died at 8 o'clock this morn
ing, making, I think. the fourth death
from this disease. though I understand
her physician pronounced her case
brain fever. Only four or i've new
cases are reported this morning. and
excitement has somewhat. lulled within
a day or two in town, though the coun-
try people are still panic stricken ov-r
the wild and conflicting rumors which
hourly reach them in their solitudes
among the pines sA 'a saeea1f
q DR.. Taylor, Of the New Orleans
Board Of Health, was here last Sunday
and pronounced the case of DR.. Ellis,
yellow fever and DR.. Jones bilious
ever, yet DR.. Ellis attended DR. Jones
before he (Ellis) was taken down, ard
says DR.. Joues case is the same as his,
while DR.. Ford, who is attending both
at the present time. aay s they both have
malariai fever of a remittant type. !
can only say let the disease be what it
may, tits different from any yellow fever
I ever saw, beside It's far less fatal.
see by The LEDGER the rope quar-
antine still exists in Brookhaven. and
Yesterday when I saw q genuine case tf
yellow fever on the down train, l won
dered whether the rope prevented the
objection from crossing or whether II
confined it to the narrow limits, enclos
ed and presided over by n or more of
the city fathers. who I hope are yellow
fever proof. or else were not in an ex-
posed position when that poor nurse
passed down the road yesterday, fresh
from Holly Springs on his way home to
be himself nursed. ooh consistency
thou art q jewell" yet the Inhabitants
of Brook, if yellow fever does come.
can have the consolation of knowing
twas not contaminated by plebian blood.
but imported pare and unadulterated
through the veins Of the nobility, for
they and they alone may approach with
IN catching distance of the cars.
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