The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

! place where a freezing temperature i.
annually ex experienced.
.. That marsh miasm, city fifth, or gar
oage have no agency in the creation OF
yellow fever; if the special matter or germ
OF yellow fever be not present, corrupt
atmosphere however obno xious otherwise.
VIII not produce the pestilence.
4 Il the germs ofyellow fever be present
deiectiVe drains, cesspoOls decom position
OF AMIN Il aEd vegetable matter. heat and
moisture may become The Posent distribu
and death.
5. The infection of yellow fever once es-
taoilshed in the body, this evil form OF life
| nj st run its course
y Medical science, as yet. is powerless to
arrest It's progress. and the great point TO
De arrived at Is 70 prevent its access 10 the
human body, on the sound doctrine of what
| we cant cure We must prevent.
10. Tie experience of the present year
has iuI!y demonstrated the efficacy of
quarantine
DR.. Francis Quigano arrived at Dry
Grove September 70. The first case of
sickness he met was that of Mrs. Douglas
! the vile OF the Epi>cop alian minister; she
died OF bilious ~ thus. and not yellow fever.
Ihere has been no yellow fever here You
are searching lor a ghost. The population
OF Dry Grove as about 100. He visited
Lebanon Church, Crystal Springs and
| Terry Mrs. Smith. he second person
tie saw sick, died of yellow fever. Found
| TWO cases OF yellow fever in IA Mr.. Cooks
| house. There were twenty cases of fever at
| Dry Grove ten at Lebanon. Lebanon is
SIX miles from Dry Grove. saw cases of
| yellow fever at Crystal Springs; none at
| Terry. All the rest of the sickness was
other fevers- The fever originated from
| the drainage OF a pond at Dry Grove. The
| yellow fever at Dry Grove aud other points
was traceable to Vicksburg. Saw no real
cases OF elbow fever in this city. a ma
jority OF the cases here could nos have been
yellow fever. Believes there was very little
fever here. Attended about 200 eases OF
yellow fever in the country: about sixty
deaths occurred among that number.
FOURTH DAY.
DR.. A. w. Smyth believes yellow fever
wherever it exists originates there; thinks
il originated in Grenada, Holly Springs
aud would have originated in those places
even If all outside communication had been
avoided Believes health tbe man factor
of lever. but that a bad sanitary condition
supernduces the lever, but this is not con-
firmed by any evidence. Crops are better
during epldemics, and vegetation more
luxurious. Does not believe in the germ
theory. Believes yellow fever is not trans
mitable from one person TO another; believes
that rigid quarantine system would set
tie the veXeu question Of Importation or
local origin, and is III favor OF uniform
aud National system OF quarantine. Does
not think there is any evidence that the
FEVER poison l. tfaHoul is>dple IN SoodS or
clothing. Ht believes there il more labil- !
ity OF secondary attacks of yellow fever
than of smallpox. Knew several cases OF
recurrence, but thinks one attack generally |
imm unitiYe OF the disease.
DIR. Austin, member of the Board OF |
Health, gave his experience during the last |
aud former epidemIcs, and quoted authori- |
ties in favor of his opinion that the fever |
was imported.
Dr. Loeber, thinks the fever in interior
towns was imported from New Orleans. |
In Mobile and Galveston | think the germs |
are indigenous; not So, though, in cities |
like Nicksburg and Memphis.
DIR 5. ). Herrick thin Ks that in the. year
1879, will have more to fear from i'm |
ported cases than from surviving germs. |
am of the opinion that the disease is not |
air borne; it travels sometimes against the |
wind. The preponderance OF evidence is
that the disease is not communicated by
the naked person.