The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-02
DONALDSONyILLE AND YELLOW
FEVER. "".":
The Full Particulars About the sO"Casletl
Yellow Fever Case.

DoNALDSONyILIE, August 81, 1878.
TO the Editor of the Democrat:
It has been my experience that whenever
the people of O. section had been left without
an organ to which they could apply to rem
edy O. great public wrong, you have always
shown q readiness and willingness to open to
them the columns of your valuable paper
and give them your assistance Ii the Vlndl-
cation of truth.
For this reason have not llestated to beg
of you to publish the enclosed communicating,
which was intended for the Donaldsonvile
Chief Of this date (the thirty-tirst August,
and which was not published "fOr the reasons
contained in the following, Whlch is q true
copy Of q letter addressed to me yesterday
evening by it's editor, who, by-the.by, had only
agreed to publish said communication as an
advertisement. Ce que jaudis accepte en- Uert!'
table MarseHlais, car qte me faisau IL MOI
que ce soft par nler on par te77'e, p0a1'Dn que
IN entire, ct que justice soft tnite.'
OFFICE OF DoNALDsoNvILLE CHIEF,
Donaldsonville, La, August 30, 1878,
Friend ReWaaud-I now have thirteen columns
of matter in type for twelve columns OF SPACE
and cannot get your matter In without crowd
Ing other out and delaying, the issue Of the
paper. which I do not feel disposed to DO.
o for o hs the This
least. though have no hesitation IN CONFESS, CO.
ing that I am not sorry the excuse IS AFFORDED
mo Without mn 10 naVsg aaer you nd
thought will lead to the modification of your
statement, If, indeed, you shall deem 1t essen
tial to publish anything In connection with the
n''''':S Yours. truly. l.. j.. BENTLEY.
Noe.-The commun ication which follows was
handed to the editor at o'clock q. N. on Fri
day, the tbirtieth instant, and the above letter
received at o'clock .. m. of the same day.
DoNA1DsoNv11LE. La, August 80, 1878.
L. E. bentley ESQ, Editor Donaldsonville
Chief:
Dear Sir-In the interest of the people of our
town and parish I ask to please publish
this communication.
On the twentieth of August instant, after
dailies of that date that yellow fever had made
a victim in Donaldsonvile, addressed to DR..
4Hsf IT. MeGalliard letter. OF which the following
is copy:
[Copyl
DoNALDsoNv1hLE. La, August %, 1s78
DR.. VIM. M. McGallard, Donaldsonville:
Dea, Sir-Tbe New Orleans Times and zfca-
Wlne having published that Miss Cnthrrine
Irene Wilson had died Of yellow fever in Don,
aldsonvile on the twenty-eixth instant, call
upon you as he physician who attended to her
during her whole illness, to contradlct said re.
| port calculated only to inlure our town, that
| an AIl-wise Providence. as every one Knows mas
| protected thus far from the dreadfu scourge.
| FELIX REYNAUD.
| MY letter remained unanswered, but DR.
| McGalliard told the person who handed iG tC
| him that Miss Wilson had had the yellow
fever. but that q couple OF days before hel
death 1t had taken another course, and used q
technical expression, which led that person &c
s,lnpose he meant brain fever.
| The following certificate may prove inter
esting
| [Copy.l
| This shall certify to all whom It may concern
| that shortly after the death Of Miss Catherine
| Irene Wilson. which occurred on the twenty
low fever, Inquired from DR.. VIM. M. Mccall
lard, whom / had understood had attended
her. the exact cause of her death. The Docto
answered to me that he had gotten her all right
but that she had subsequently attended-ont tn
fifteenth of Augusta procession at the Cath
olic church. which caused relapse aud ina
she had died of typhoid fever, but not Of yellow
fever as represented. Ii. .. ShIlLH
| Donaldsonville La, August 80. 1873
| will add, further, that on the Saturday, i
my memory serves me right, preceding ne
death, DR.. John E. Duffel was requested D.
her attending physician to go with MIN an.
see Miss Wilson. He did so, and have
from unauestionabe authority that sail
doctor pronounced the disease case OF ty
phoid fever in its last stage, or, to use his yer
words. "ln .fepre typhoide @ son opogee'
will not enter here into discussion OF tn
, reasons which have led to the circulation
the report that yellow fever had not only az
reared In our midst but that the first case {
It had proven fatal, but / entertain the ide
that the wise conduct OF our citizens ID az
, caring against quarantine is not altogethe
foreign to the subject-matter
!. Yours, respectfully, FELIX hEINAUD'