New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-19
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oioek kas Appeale led PtFonglyo
Dissamse .Gstbs sapsFqtit 6 81
d. rt6e peatilense EhiehIIE
ted 81 lspds in ALI AgeAmJt
.sns.Iasrx ~ toFefeS 20 the ypl1fEngas ypl1fEn |
], HSat N whiichs Ee 90I nct
to .6aye, read q to Fsmilnd va
bstthe. yellow fever has hsaR !
oug6Iy ipysPtigats1 n, pea
N Othsr epdqPie aeepEgA,
J syeg sfAietedI qsEI.Vg bAmanityE IN
deemed ia dHty OspH3t
!, d the c9nniapieR appqipteg6
y istp che pFigih Il hs yell
u some, peEtipfept oeeKtgAtcftss
banphlet stiit entitled 3D. q An n Jkrsay
!. Tsll0Kl lFsyeg tOt tAme eA,a
Thomas, printed in rNsyy7
and at Paris in 1923. We
okDr. ThemaS IthSt in ado
v, hid. mAmbership IN vAriOqsi
!, \ : Institutions, he was long
in the aitEs .enjOFaarthsi
peFsepsls rapd professional
! On, enddis remembered with
n BY many old citizens. .ss5uss
% reatsr paEtef the treatise ~
is to prove that yellow fever b.
il. sgiOWs, hut may be.aperadies
9 for its pFQpagatiOu l0ag
On ID solar heat acting sn1Aev
\ pg ImateFial. PeEhapsl no
ulOeg0onld be paased on De
'Of than that he maintained no
= Al mode Of treating the dis
,lo. II statcs ilnpHrtislly the prac-
Inherent eminent physieianS
La elsewhere. The v6lume
us-a presentation copy-is
Flq With an observation appar-
Il, u the handwriting OF Dr.
5. (which shows the Tnod,Sfs.
Dad the m6desty Of the author.
..sGJsi 9tI .lA'.T2- 10 nsa
Is.' -, sories. tie sssssrnS and doet4ihes
sins1 havo mads mozs viatims
mar aious faith, u will be tho case
personal pride shall bold sway,
na net oE the pamphlet referred
lished from the manuscript
. ieOrne1l.. 3 SpAniSh physieian,
Il ientiAc, and Of accurate OBJ
u. He resided for several
n New Orleans, and was a
reat Of the medical society. He
ently left here for the island
.st, where he was resident al
of b Of the publication. 1t il
b supposed authority Of Dr.
So S.a' \, as we'll as Of other ply
long resident in New Or
zine we'll as upon the authority
a. d records that the following
{, which we translate from
'us' nphlet Of DR.. Thomas are
er
id that no one had ever observed
" fever before the year 1876. UI
me the city having but small ex-
ma surrounded by trees which, by
'A de, prevented the decomposition
atar on which their roots were
and which absorbed besides, in
antity-as is known to be theil
/, d the deleterious miasmas. t
y Carondelet, then the Spanish
. Of Louisiana, caused at thai
~. ne considerable public works Il
Jul led, of which the principal were
construction of q canal two milel
eW which still bears his name, anC
Esat New Orleans in basin larg'
b contain q great number of litTlt
at u from twenty-five to one hundred
nber exactly in the place where tn
ieFies had been located, and b,
extremity Of the canal, with [
N which empIied into Lake Pont
II fortihcations surrounded b!
These are understood to meal
'An cations which ct that time wer,
Ping p on three sides of New Orleans.
last, an ahattis Of timber, whicl
, ,-n ed the city to certain distance
AND exposed a considerable exten
Ianse ny ground, and this influenced Il
D EA rOus extent by solar heat, yer,
wed the pestiferous effiaVia 70 dis
ilslf in abundance. These works
d. an dAlly the canal, were eonstFuete,
Iner ll796, as the city records from
rickS have drawn the preceding de
'engs iiy, and it was thus that then oc
Y frat epidemic Of the yello'
NTyI eA aG uneS carried of, as "
certify, almost an the hborer
red there. r r .f
ical 4 Effects OF disturbing the so.
IA demonstrated again in the ep
Matches in 1919. DR.. Pronen
|, ATI ligent pbyNieiAns who practice
in that town, wrote on the sut
oCTo ! medical faculty Of New 0rlsaHi
As is the correspondent, that th
cause Of shat epidemic was NJ
sation BY way Of the river, as u
'usl ainh represented, Kinee me di
lthr appeared NJ POINT most relnOt
HFsr landing, and very near col
ifon excayationS exeeutad for the pa
lbOu' aslipg che streets. O..
abitants Of 81 DoMiRgo haN
for u Ae they lkMSM many similar e
5 ss0s ulriag 10 tAat island from q
ths VI os.h
oq'a sye given this extract b,