Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1878-10-08

| elsewhere in the South, at their own
sweet will, to occasionally wander el,s n in its
dark twists and turns, and fret themselves
to, death In the effort to get out gam
Their carcasses would ID. IN i time tester, and and
1.-THE stencil would eventually become So
great, as to compel search for its cause: a: se
The floor Of the drain is impaired and IS
not level and pools Of stagnant water and md
filth collected upon it. Some offensive einlsssilv
Iodors were complained Of early in, j Jul, y,
and Mayor Milton put men To-, work tol
cleap gut the sewers as it was feared its
condition was, such. ito e4ndanger the
}publicf health,w Thef laborers uncovered
1.-THE ldrain, and made 2 search, and, i, is
said, found several, carcassesI ct hogs
General Walthall says that Mayor Milton oGn
denied this report, but another informant
declares that the carcasses were found,
land were flung out on the ground and left
to rot in the sun before burial Pools of
Ilflth were found; and particularly under al
livery ystable near the public square. # It
was while, this drain was under repair that
the fever appeared in New Orleans, and
the tide of travel began, to set north. Mrs.
Fields, living in depot street, received a
dress from New Orleans, by express, about
July 10. Several passengers fIam New
Orleans were in the place about the same
time, and some of them stopped. at the
IWalthall House, opposite Mrs Fields
residence, When Mrs, Fields complain
ed, a. few days later, Of pains in her head,
of peculiar sensations in her limbs, and
was compelled to send for a physician, no
one thought ofbeing alarmed. i The sick
woman was, attended by DR.. Hughes, who
treated the case as ore of malarial fever,
She died on July15. Wherever the germ
of disease inghsf case. might have come
frioomi, frioomi it may be important to state that
she lived very near the town drain and to
the spot wAherelit was uncovered BY the
wNho5rrkmen who were Cleaning it, Z The fu-
neral of Mrs, Fields was was Ipublic one, and
was largely attended. There WI Was no ssis! sus.
picaionn thai. an who attended it were in
danger of infection. About six dil days later
young ma man 4 named Robert c. Young,
clerk III the largest grocery shop in in this
place, and one that supplies families ii
tie country ,iii1t1 Il for miles around, v was taken
with symptoms very ike those with which
Mrs. Fields had been prostrated.. He was was
robust fine fellow about aS years 81 age.
The poison Of the fever Was swter to de-
str5o5yy him than its first vsiictid. He was
dead in three hours, and the Course of the
disease had all the yellow fever character
iisitiScs. iiitS The doctors began to consult
There are, s'S or were, then, FIVE fh in theplace
-Dr: Riinnggggold, Dr. Hughes, Br. Hail fHfaar,
| Dr.. cage, and DR.. Ray. When 4 null
att woman was prso5s5tIrlated and died. and
her hTh husband followed her to the the grave IA ga
day or two after, people began to talk
with alarm about the fever, and to express
fear that tie. dreaded scoorge, which they
had always escaped before; had broken Ken
out among them. ..The. cases multiplied,
and on Sunday, August I, + the physicians
found 50 many bad cases that they met
together and agreed to pronounce es TIE dis dis
ease yellow fever, and to warn, H. the, toyn. WI
They made proclamation accordingly. Un
Saturday night before this, groups ii fii anx1 K
ious persons gathered about the drug rug
shop, and hailed every physician to Is know
what was thought Of the prevailing dis
ease, but none would admit it to be YET
low fever. The proclamation caused a
sinking and q sickness at heart Of the
white population, and moment of par
alyzing fear was followed by,a scene Of
hasty departure BY all who could travel
BY rail OF could procure conveyances to
carry them into the country. Just at this
time the railroad company became ~ I'm
ed, and ordered that no trains Be allowed
10 stop at Grenada. The wagons Car Came
and went, and the 400 population " was
rapidly reduced. The negroes number
about half the entire population, and most
Of them remained later Not more than
900 whites faced the fever, and many Of
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