The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-10
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SEPTEMBER TO- 1879

coincidence Of the yellow fever exhibiting
Itself on the same day, viz: twenty third Of
May, on both vessels say: "Can the North
ampton be deemed the cause Of Its outbreak
on the Augusta r. Hardly, we should think,
for IL our dates are correct and we otherwise
cannot make them from our record, 1t was
concurrent phenomena on both vessels, and
we should rather suppose come common intYa-
eeee IN operation IN their common locality
What follows directly opposes DR.. Schup-
Continues the oommssion are ds assiH
to the converse OF the proposition, that the
Augusta may have infected the Northamp-
ton. Ii this conjecture be urged as a means
of explanation, let us follow it out to all its
consequences. We must then assume the
Augusta to have taken the infection from
the Camboden Castle; to do this we must
prove first that two ships separated by the
breadth OF a towboat, but with free inter-
| minRling Of the crews, can communicate an
iino,rn to hare such and secondly that the
air Of the Camboden Castle must have con-
tanned such Infection, although she
was thoroughly cleansed and lined be-
| fore saitng was twelve days at sea be-
fore coming In contact with the Augusta.
and had neither, during her voyage hther,
nor her stay In our port, sickness OF any Kind
among her crew-all of which appears to be
by reference to our minutes" Nor have we
one little of evidence that this same vessel,
| which during a twelve hours run up the
river. has power to infect from her deck the
| crew and passengers of neighbOring ship,
Or has given rse To single case among the
| laborers who cleared or those who loaded her
| OF all the early cases derived from the ship
ping not one is traceable to her Between the
seventeenth Of May and the eighth of june
she completed her cargo and on the evening
| OF the latter day sailed for England. In all
this time, while the Augusta was almost deet-
mated Of her crew, the Catnboden Castle not
only did not lose any, but we are utterly I'M
able to trace to her q single case of sickness
or death among the men who nnloaded or
loaded her. SO much for the hypothesis of
tho Camboden Castle being the source Of sick
ness on the Augusta"
The commission then proceeds: "Did she
communicate fever to the Niagara, Harvest
| Queen or Saxon in the midst of which she
lay| IL is true that fever broke out among
| these ships; on the first, after lying twenty
three days alongside of the Camboden Castle;
On the second twelve days. on the third
eighteen days. with the position OF these
ships just given. and their relation to thee
Camboden Castle, as the assumed source OF
Infection we cannot fail TO mark lncongruities
at variance with Ine OPINION taat sne acten
as the cause or the fever whleh appeared,
either among the neighboring ships OF among
the crew or me Augusta. II sbe were the
source OF Infection, on what principle OF law
fact that While she ls competent TO infect the
AugusIa curing WE'VE hours run Up the
river, Ihe z. same ln'eetlon shoula require "a
lnterval u eaEh ,a uays W Guntanata ene
W. ,ay faat thna ~ NJ Is sue -
ui ~ t,e ~ ,a
ber viainaoa hefore che "bnw.G tho oim9s " "
Infection While the Harvest aneen With
equal liability from position. has n case of
fever an the twelfth dav from fhe arrival If
the Camboden Castle" "Do we not see in
the naked statement of these facts insupera-
BE difficulties to the opinion which would es-
Castle as the cause and the occurrence of the
fever Of any Of the ships that had connection
with her"
TO show whether ships had any agency In |
sion state that on the twenty-second of May
one day prior to the occurrence Of the first
case on board of either the Northampton or
Augusta, DR. Iehender had q case several |
squares higher up than these ships; this pa
tient had never visited the shipping. On the |
twenty-fourth, one day after the breaking out |
Of the fever on the ships, DR., Schuppert had
q patient the butcher KeilIerng, who threw
up black vomit, but finally recovered 1T is
believed that he had no communication with
bowler Attended Klein and Ills wife. moe than
a nile In the rear of the shipping. who both
died Of black yom1t. They had never hpnn
in proximity to the shipping' MANI smch
eases occurred After narratinp other casas.
the com mission sums no BY saving. aEnonph
however has been eetablTshea re- render an,
feunble fhe nation 81 imnorfniio, fn,. al.
nesteuce IF any facts exist ST. vari. yo ,. ~
par abatement ihav nathan annaar ~ Will s,,,
~, ~ t Ie tr,th dppeai - our
nnrtarv n racard sss y o'A ''ess'0o Wy our
iii : .Iiy teouaus'
ne noregong should pc
the Camboden Castle; but will make few
observations, having special reference to some
parts OF the poctors communication, which
l think are open 70 criticism. Not satisfied
NJ 1rlliS "a
that the crews Of the Camboden Castle and
Augusta probably intermingled, he attaches
vital Importance to the fact that three Of the
crew Of the Augusta actually went on board
the Camboden Castle. Thus 1t appears that
neither the persons, clothing nor anything |
to the men could communicate
the disease (of which there was none on
board; but tnat to imbibe the fever II was
This would prove infection, not contagion
This would prove that Ii any one went on