The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-02
FEVER CASES.
aer. CEaOppfn VIII Make Last Call ON
DelinMment RhYsicians

There still seems to be consid 9rabe anxiety
on the part Of some Of our people concerning
! the possibility Of irreparable injury to ou1
| community by the publication OF the daily re-
ports OF the Board of Health because these re.
ports would make it appear that every person
| out Of three and half, who contracts yellow
fever, dies OF the disease In our opinion thyr g
! is little danger of such q msapprehe aston
abroad, for the city, papers, together with the
G 'untry. have Frequently enough expIainad
that, espe tally while the epidemic was at lis
height. our physical s. labors. were so arduous
| that they had no time to make any reports If
| the cases under their treatment 0 t board
|, Ii ts pretty generally agreed that no fewer
fh ana Tory r fty thousand peopef all ages
| children under ton years of age coming in for
TIE greater share of this number. II such be
inc \, case Sc, tnen the death ratio has been very
A few days ago. whilst in conversation with
Rr Vho 20 ne president Of the Bard Of
the board would mako another effort to obtain
from the phys clans of New Orleans the num-
bsve Of not 9y9T sa1dr sed M hem they
piled DR., Choppin, 1T Is most important that
the board should get this particular informa ma
that q failure on the part of physicians to com
ply with the law would Compel him to prose-
cute the deliDquents under the act creating the
D.. Boa "a OF Hea. Il and which imposes no of
Delinanents will please take the hint. for the
c'urts open on Monday next The cOnyaraa-
ton becoming broader on tue subject of yellow
fever. DR. Chopin remarked that an important
point should be ascertained beyond doubt if
1t be possible and that was whether veIlow
lever ever originates here Or whether it is al
ways imported, and the only way to reach CON
clusion would be to strictly quarantine New Or
leans during the summer mnnths against all
ports whore the fever is known to exist That
we were confronted with this o. ano ner prono-
sitlon. The latter was to do away entirely with
the ordinary system Of quarantine and throw
our port open to the world at all periods of the
year and let the people Of the whole world
know That by coming here they are running the
risk of getting the fever
. AS to the first proposition D octor we asked
have you ever computed the amount OF injury
to our commerce that would result from an nb-
solute closing OF our ports against the Infected
ports during the warm months
EaI ne reply was in the affirmative. DR., Chop |
pin said he estimated that the loss would |
AMOUNT apparently to about two millions Of /
doIars; apparently, because that Is the sum of I
the traffic between New Orleans and those ports |
where the fever exists: but should our port be |
CT sed to them during the sumner months, the |
traffic would be regu iated accordingly and |
occur during the winter months otherwise |
there IS no method of ascertalning whethe |
yellow fever originates here
HoW about our home pOrEs who might admit |
Shlps from lnfe"t"d ports abroad? VT ventured |
to ask of the doctor
Ihen we Wnu have also to establish a SINH
lar quarantine against all homo pors that
Woul! not establish it themselves against for
elgn Infected ports.