The Louisiana Democrat., 1880-07-28
THE GUARANTEES AGAINST NEW
ORLEANS.

The Board of Health, in New Or
leans, have issued an energetic doc
ument and protest respecting the
guarantees recently proclaimed
against the City. In order that the
many rumors detrimental to New
Orleans may be properly understood,
10 the matter of the recent yellow fe-
yer eneute, we give the full history
of these cases, as taken from the
protest of the Board of Health, in a
letter to the Acting Governor of the
State. Here are the important facts
to be considered, as enunciated in
the protest:
81. The occurrence Of an imported
case of yellow fever on foreign ship
from foreign port does not cousti.
,ute the port in which such case oo-
ours an infected port.
2. The only case of yellow fever
which has occurred within the limits
Of New Orleans up to this moment,
July 2l, 2 p. M, 1880, originated on
board the bark Excelsior, dfty-two
days after leaving Rio Jancrio, on
the seventh of July.
Fourteen days have elapsed since
the occurrence of this case and elev
en- days since the death and burial of
the patient and prompt removal of
the vessel and crew to the Mississip-
pi Quarantine Station, seventy-five
miles below the city. The period is
twice as long as that specified by the
National Board of Health as consti-
tuting the period of incubation of the
yellow fever poison.
8. Notwithstanding the erroneous
statements embodied in the quaran-
tine proclamations of Tennessee and
Mississippi, the official statement of
the sanitary inspector of the First
District, who was charged with the
execution of the orders of the Presl-
dent of the Board of Health, shows
that only eighteen colored men and
two white men we're employed in the
discharge of the cargo of the
Excelsior.
Careful watch has been kept with
reference to those men, as well as
those employed in the Montgomery
Warehouse, which received the cargo
Of the Excelsior, and up to the pres.
ent moment not :. single case of fever
has occurred within the limits of the
city of New Orleans.
f. A careful inspection of the
Charity Hospital, Hotel Dieu and
other charitable institutions reveals
the absence of all forms of fever
5. A careful inspection of the ship
ping in the harbor of New Orleans
reveals the important fact that not {
case OF fever exists among the
seamen.
6. As will be seen by the inclosei
official weekly statements of tue NOR
tality of New Orleans, consolidat
from the State records on file in th'
State House, the total deaths TO
New Orleans during the past weel
were only 100, giving death rate 0
about twenty-three in the thousau.
per annum. OF this number oul,
six were caused by the various fevers
of maiarial or swamp fevers which
prevail at all times and in all season.
in the valley of the Mis- >issippi.
/ I. New Orleans is absolutely fre
from yellow fever. New Orleans a
present has as low a death rate u
any city of the same or smaller O
larger size within the bounds of th
United States. t1ot a case of sun
stroke occurred during the past wee
in New Orleans, while numerou
cases have been reported in Ne,
York, Philadelphia, St. Louis an
other cities.
J. 8. In view Of these we'll establishe
facts, the quarantine establishe
against the city of New Orleans an
State of Louisiana, by the physician
Of Tennessee and Mississippi, mus
be regarded as unnecessary, unwis'
{ ungenerous and unconstitutional.
u Whilst the profession and peopl
Of New Orleans have ever responde
with money, physicians and nurse
to every call of distress from he
sister States in case of war, famiu
or pestilence, certain States appe.
, to be ever ready to seize upon an
pretext, however slight, to abrida
the liberties and destroy the con
merce of her citizens"