The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-08
NUMBER 81.

dieturb bed TO suoh an extent that oAveEng Wr840
District. In front Of the Camp Street ThsskFe
! an impaasable gulf Of mud opened, extending
nearly the whole length Of Camp street, In
| seen horses perish in the street opposite Lafa-
| yette Square, from mring so deep that they
( could not DO extricaGed. When Lafayette In
\ splendid chariot drawn by four beautiful
horses. proceeded to make Walt to the lats
William Brand, on Magazine, near Poydras, by
the time he arrived at tho present site Of the
earrisge became engulphed to such an extsDt
| that he was with some dlfaoulty extricated, end
performed the remainder Of bis journey on che
aat gunyales which then formed the only side
| time peroh Of paving stone or . psrsicle Of
slsted rooang from Canal street 70 the Red
Tohoupitoulas streets these existed Q gulf
% deep and dangerous that thu oity anthoER-
ties deemed it necessary to plant posts and
erect Q fenee all around 1t. Hundreds
all attempts at transportation BY vehicles and
horse power were abandoned; plsnks were Laid
along the Bides Of the streets, and cotton ond
presses by human labor ct 81 per bale and hogs-
head.
Suoh was the condition of New Orleans in
the fall and winter of 1926, the very year tho
quarantine was abolished.
And then the doctor concludes, az de-
molition of both the quarantine and drain
ing and clean street theories, with chal-
leDge of denial Of the assertion that with
an extended intercourse with the whole
tropical region and yellow fever zone, there
did not occur Gaze of yellow fever In
New Orleans and for six years afterwards.
The doctor might have added other
iiustratlonsIof bis assertion that this disease
was entirely Independent of or disconnecs-
ed from and In no manner affected by the
condition of the streets and OF the drain
age of the city. He could have pointed as
kL- nS-st
present indications of this mysterious NAL
ady, which show that the epidemic has
limited it's sphere of resistance and destFuc-
ton to those quarters of the city which are
as we'll paved, as cleanly and free from ali
the imagined sources of terrene and mAla-
rial infection and prOcreation aS those Of
any other city in the world. And in thoae
parts of the city which are flthieat and the
worst drained, In the novels and shanttes
along our draining canals and on tho
borders and even within the sWampe, the
diseaSe is q rare visitant. Where do you
find the-hecstombs of the victims OF this
disease, II not In Magazine, Camp, Caron-
delet, Euterpe, jackson and other Of onr
best built mp and paved streets.
He might, too, have instanced the re-
markable year Of 1s40, when three-EOuRthS
of the present area Of the city was over
from that condition in midsummer, and
the whole oveIfowed surface was covered
with deep deposit of debris, and all
drainage stopped, not q eingle case Of
yellow fever occurred in that whole year.
Bat why multiply proofs on one Of the
questions relating to the source of this
disease, upon which there exists nearer
approach to unanimity than any other, TO-
wit that its introduction and spread sE0
entirely Independent of any such condi-
tions as defective drainage, bad scaveDg-
eFipg and the prevalence of dlth and un-
cleanliness. Those conditions may produce
remittent and maarial feveTs, aud Of these
the statistics of Buffers army will exhibit
q large prevalence. From yellow fever il
may be admitted that the city W0s
comparatively though not completely ex-
empt in 1852, bat not moro so than In
many previous years when Batter and
his army were not here, and that such
waa in its woTet condition in respect to
drsinaRe, pavement and cleanliness and
that it's severest visitations have occurred
when the drainage and scavengeTing were
far more thorough and complete than that
which Butler boasts of having effected by
the application of the large sum Of which
he robbed our citizene.
The pTetensioD, therefore, set up by him
and his followers Of demonstrating the
method by which pestilence could be kept
from our borders 10 a. false as any other
utteTance of this great American Num-
chausen, ch0rlatan and demagog4e. is
illustrates the profound and pitiRble ign0-
rance Of the nature and history of this
disease prevalent among the people who
are deiuded by such transparent false pre-
texts.