Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02
YELLOW FEVER AT HONE.
How 1t Il Trsatsd 1t Vera Cruz. the Place
Where yellow Jack Reigns Forever.

from the New York Times.l
Give dog bad name and ne goes
to the dop-pound, and that settles him.
Give a CITY q bad name forfevers aud it
has 10 suffer even whom no fever is
there. The steamship City Of Mexico
ran for . long time between Vera Cruz
and New Orleans, making quicker com
munication with the civilized world for
the people Of Vera Cruz and the interior
than thew ever had before. The time
to New Orleans was less than four days,
and from there communication was easy
with all parts of the United States, or
all parts of the world. This steamer
now lies in the North River, laid mp for
the summer-and all because Vera Cruz
has q bad name. Last summer they
had yellow fever there-plenty OF it.
This summer there is no epidemic; but,
to guard against any chance of conta.
gion, New Orleans has ordered that all
vessels from Vera Cruz shall lie in quar-
antine 70 DAYS before going up to the
CITY,. This practically stops water COM
munication between these two cities for
the summer, and Vera Cruz, Of course,
must be the sufferer.
"Last SUMNER" said Capt. Mackin-
tosh of the steamer City of Mexico to the
writer, "they seemed in danger OF all
going of with yellow fever. This sum-
mer there is no fever to speak Of, but
they're in Q fair way to starye to death,
for no steamers are running there. The
English and French steamers do not 60
there this summer, and we will not start
again till fall"
Vera Cruz seems to be yellow fever's
favorite summer resort. Never . sum.
mer passes without some cases, and fro
quently there is an epidemic. 1t even
stays there throughout the winter, keep
ing occasional cases in the hospitals all
theyeaf round. A stranger going there
in. January, and sleeping out in the open
air, often on the deck ef ship, is in a
fair way To catch it. Strangers very
often do this, unless they are warned in
time, for the heat, even at that time 2
wear, IS almost unbeatable, and nothing
is more pleasant than to get up at mid
night and walk down to the mole, where
there y always . breath Of sir from the
sea. But New Yorker might almost
as we'll look down pistol barrel to see
the cartridge explode as to do this, for
he is sure to sit down on q cotton-bale,
and almost sure to fall asleep. Even
the natives are afraid of this, and keep
religiously under cover at night.
The native Vera Cruzanss have very
little fear of the vomito, although they
know that it is continually lurking
among them, md most of them have
had it, some of them several times. It
would be as reasonable to say that be-
cause mans right arm has been bro
ken his left arm is forever safe, IS to
imagine that yellow fever can only be
he'd once. Some lold stagers in Vera
Cruz have had it half a. dozen times,
and are ready for fresh siege. After
they have HABIT Q few times their skin
keeps permanent yellow tint, though
it does not usually leave as decided
marks as Chagres fever.
With three or four straycases of fever
in Memphis, the north begins to cry out
that after last years experience Mems
phis ought to have been cleaned. II any
thing will induce the southern cities to
scour themselves up, very good. But
Vera Cruz, where yellow fever has q
permanent residence, is as clean as any
Of our northern cities. With the pains
these toasted Mexicans take to keep
their streets clean and their cutters pure,
and every thing about. them ssy0ry, it
would be q mean fling. at them to say
that Vera Cruz is as clean as New York.
1t is at least 200 per cent. cleaner. They
have a powerful Involvement for keep
ing things clean. Dirt in the hot season
means almost sure death, and when q
man dies there In the morning he is
safely settled in the graveyard in the
afternoon. Almost any body would
whitewash his back fence under the cir
cumstances. This applies only to Vera
Cruz,-where the fever. RACES. Up in
Mexico City, where it is cooler, the peo-