San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-11-02

improvements and vigilance. Nothing
approaching to evidence has yet been
produced to show that this disease has
ever originated in, or has been promot.
ed by, the lack of sanitary expedicnts
and vigilance. 1t has dehed all such
causes, raging with great viruience when
the utmost care and vigilance had been
employed to exclude or modify its vio-
lence, and sparing the city when MI SAM
tary precautions had been neglected;
and even now the evidence is patent to
whole population that localities reek-
ing with filth and imagined miasm are
comparatively free from mortality, while
in the best built and paved portions of
the city, where none reside except the
most clearly, aforementioned of our
people, there is not square in which
there have been less than eight or ten
deaths. Take the squares on Magazine,
Camp, Carondelet and the intersecting
streets from Poydras to Jackson, where
not single sanitary precaution has been
neglected, and where reside people
provided with every comfort and con-
venience, with physicians always on
hand, and friends and nurses to attend
and care for the sick-it is in this local.
ty the fever has found it's largest num-
her of victims. On the other hand, look
at such localities as those crowded and
filthy squares on Upper Tehoupitonias
street above st. Theresc. From the re-
port of the sergeant of police of that dis
trict, we learn that in that region, where
every sanitary rule is utterly neglected
by the impoverished and ignorant peo-
pie who there reside, the death-ratc has
not equaled those of the years when the
city was exempt from yellow fever. In
truth, this police sergeant informs us
that, in one of the most crowded OF these
squares, there have been to date twenty
cases of fever reported, chiefly children,
and not a single death.
It is one of the most sorrowful pre-
liminaries of this disease that the great
majority of its victims are of the robust,
the temperate; of those with vigorous
organization, free from hereditary dis
cases. OF such as have been brought on
by self-indulgence or excess. So re-
markable is this popularity that there
are more persons who believe that weak
constitutions have been invigorated by
IN attack of the fever, than there are of
those who believe that it spares the TO-
bust and vigorous and beautifully orga-
nized. Alas! alas! who of us cannot
recall the names of large number of
our healthiest, most temperate and prll-
dent friends who have been sent to the
tomb within the past few weeks, and an
equal number with weak constitutions
prone to strong drink and high living
who have been spared, and are now
exulting in improved vigor and health.
The effects of this disease are we'll
known in purifying and vaccinating
those who have passed throughit. Those
who are thus acclimated or vaccinated
are not only rendered impervious to the
disease in the future, but are actually
improved and invigorated in their gen
eral health during the prevalence of the
epidemic. The air which proves so ia
tai poison to the unacclimated oper-
ates as tonic and strengthened to the
acclimated. The latter invariably have
better health, more vigor, are less troub-
led with the ordinary ailments of the
summer season, VII IN the epidemic pre-
walls, than when it is absent.
an EnteTprisinD Yankee.