The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-08-23
yHEpROGRESS OF A SOURCE.
pr1 iILED LCCOtNT or THE bPI-
,ruJc IN THE SOUTHUESE
xs,,ov Fever Began In New Orleans
DO" ,,. thence scattered Bro"dcn1-The
rs.oIntion Ut Grenada aud the Terror In
sad incidents of the Epidemic.

A.. orleans is not often entirely free OF !
A.. favor in summer. and few cases early |
-, Ina, did not cause alarm: but by the first !
n,,',n., the plague II which accounts have
- ,,m, disjointcdly day by day. was fairly
~ uurin. the first week in August from
~ T., a,con patients died every twcnty-iour
,r. mr. about twenty five per cent OF all who
~. .,ri,kcn Tho news carried fright TO tho
',o, and towns along the Gull and quaran-
..o. YER, generally established against tho
'",,,iny NJ the dreaded fever Tho terror was
...o,ialiy great in Texas and neither IA sem
- nor freight were permitted To come INTO
s.s,,,c hy railroad or boat from the inf, tod
.,v Even the mail service YVES suspended. 50
.,riul werc the people that the deadly disease
,ould reach them. Along the Mississippi River
roasures almost equally stringent were carly
.tor,cl Morris Mayer. who slipped into Nicks-
1,r, before the boat on which he had come from
s.v ORLEANS could be examined by the health
,r,horitics. WIS fined $3.50 and compelled to quit
ma ,ity Business throughout the whole South
.ss, was at once disordered. and in great
uoasure stopped. New York merchants were
nld hy telegraph not to send goods that mad
han ordered and In most instances no such
oun,.rmAnd was necessary. lor there was good
,s,son to fear Il spread ~ the scOurge. and who
,nd insure the livcs Of the debtors?
Tho disease held it, own in New Orleans. and
.,n,t, mon, tho 1nath rate increasing steadily.
M., ~, An, IN tvantv.two person. died of
!, rnoraaf,nr the Health Board refused to
gven q figures for publication perhaps being
,shamel that their neglect Of duty had helped
mo disaster. II not caused H. The streets had
M, for fifteen years. or since Benjamin T. But
lar cleaned them been SO foul. No precautions
Of any consequence had been taken. and tho
~ " c,rbition IN fal nm easy prey to
NV .' VIM or.,nv We, os though pltiful the
Nv -, 49,, ..,,i,, ~ slav I, was not ~ an
W. W." 49,. ,,ne a, rrs, Tho authori.
...,', 49,, a,,i,i,r 10 10 10, late what IA
nes sVuSN - 800 -.
little precauuon mlsht h"N' maui unheVos-
ssrv They washed the streets by flushing
20, .',,,'. t,,,,, ,ho riy.r TLav s,iilnd
hem Will ""v' ''''" Wv 49,
4. ,no, diai,t,t.,, used "A rr.at ouPntity OF
:" - "a. . ..,tr,u. ,ha
resh-burh'd llIh' S'l'NihE " It'h'H""' III '"'
loule-t parts OF the city. ihisicans nurses
and r,eJi.,n.a v,rc furnished TO all yellow
,......,. -, ~ ,t.,ii,,.,..,.a, An
leNer pNi'hls' FrEHi "l'SS %. ""'"S l" pn'' -"
OF these things failed TO drive out tho fever;
how much good thcy have done In restricting
10" "'u." So VS., - =,
The raynses can only be guessed at Certain 1t
Is tnat the number OF cases rose 70 an average
,f a hundred a dnv and the fever became so
" NUM- W "", - -.
mu'h mpreNltuithlln Hl 'hvr'"-iy a''llul"V'"
persons were attacked almost as readily as
,,h 49, Evnn thos. horn md raised in tho city
..,,,',,,.,,,si,. ..ricg,, ,',r,i.,,lorl, mon
were numerousY stricken particularly men
whose systoms were already iJ.l 81 tho poison
Jo.,,h,l Although iuliffer,n, 20 10 danger is
-
tseh'lheh' thh'' Us "ouh'"h'N p'o''u " eN-
-, ,,,i.t,., r., w. n rio..,. ,,yer.. ,,,,,er
'0"4 -
Gus after the dreadful extent oil the scourGe was
realized II il said that 10000 residents have
as1 fran the city scattering themselves over
uou '''n' Wv wv