The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-08

1Galpeston News, Aug. 81

! 'teriay TINT DIR. Heard hadiarrivet
iron New Orleans a reporter re
paired to his residence, on Avenu'
ii, where the doctor WAS found
Hooking somewhat insprovea by lhi'
Iitrip, which, however, has been ONT
lnf hustle rather than relaxation
He talked very unreservediy of I'M
"trip, Saying TINT he had nothing tt
concert, and showeano, disposition
Ito garble facts. He began at the
beginning, and s4atea tlaas ihs
landed
AT MORGAN CITY
the day sitter lln departure hence
and xas luckily -tastaimea at that
,,,osait Ton several lhonrs. Tins Short
tinae he pat to valuable use, by
Calling upon the Mayor and Drs
White and Greene, and rsar.ang
upon aaem the necessity of taking
immediate steps&owaTl preventing
the inlportation of yellow fever
from New Orleans. They seemed
to realMe the value of the advice,
and tasereepon extemporized a
board of hesalsh, and sseguH sans-
itary measures. .Tlle two tdectsrs
referred Ito agreed as ITO the re-
matkablyl ealthy.stateo place,
but lit was DIR. Heard's conviction,
from what Inc saw, that Morgan
City was far from being in "a sani-
ttary condition.
AT NEW ORLEANS
he was naes 10y DIR. dSam Cl,oppin,
president of the board of ilealth,
who had come down 10 the iferry
landing toTeceiae him. In tcom-
gpany with DIR. tChoepiu lse visited
the board of hessltin aasd was there
for the farst tinae made acquainted
with tnrry interesting particulars
concerning the present disease.
He talked atlength with a number
of physicians, all of whom had va
RANT opinions as Ito its origin.
There seem toibe two theories: one
which places the origin In the city
itself and the infected mir, aud an
other which traces the disease to
the cases of the purser AID second
engineer of the Emily B, Soudsr,
and sslto@s iin this manner the
rplausibiiity of its i,aportatiau.
However this may he, the disease
lis at present confined to four foci
in the city, and is not generally
prevalent. One of the .toci is near
the Charity hospital, aud Che other
.threeiin different sections of the
American districts. Around each
1ocus is established a perfect Gordon
sunitatre, aud ,evely ,precaation
taken TO keep the disease within
these bounds Some six carts are
in constant use spriukling tue in
fected sections with cafbolic acid,
and the streets and alievways are
kept in @ saturated state. The
,carbo!ie acid in use is the inpuFe,
all the pnre having been elseady
consumed.
The mosning after his arlival
DIR. Heard went 10 tpspy an early
visit to Prof. Lewis, an old nc
,anaintance, and from him heard
the singular statement that there
had mt, mp TO that lime, been "A
case of yellow fever below !Bien-
willie street. Tliis is equivalent ito
having no case whatever in tue
French quarter of the city, and is
strange from the lfact5tll.lt iu other
epifemics the lneiglibofhood toi
,Jaeisson square aud the French
market, and certain places in the
Imrd district, were the lhot-beds
of the disease. Prof. Lewis in the
Course Of conversation stated that
he adlookedfor gallowfevar some
weeks baforeiit made its appear.
ance, ms he had heard DIR. Lewis
his'uncle, and,one ,ofthe oldest AMI
finest physicians in the city, pre-.
dict an epidemic, and O most ma
Iligpaut one, Saying hecoald notics
signs in the air that were unmis
ltakabIe.
Prof. Bemiss, atthe Medical, col
Ilege, called DIR. Heard's attention
ITO the fact that the disease wa,
confined almost entirely ito til,
better classes. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES