Weekly Phoenix herald., 1884-08-14
Causes of Yellow Fever

the Ric Grande, Texts, for q wecl
 waiting f r Inc river 10 fall so flat
 I could go inlo Mexico We slept
 in q cottage st paratc from ile hotel.
 4 d at night I dIsc, vered pecli>
 liar smell in inc atmosphere
 that indicated danger. The next
 mornii Z commenced to explore for il, and found tbIee old Mexican
 tom Js enclosed in a stone wall at
 hr end Of ihe os.i,ding tombs
 are wall 7X4 feet square, t.uil, two ! feet Il eh aid an arch Ihiown ov,r
 it lcnglhw v In this The body is
 pushed eadw"ys and the onds are
 cement. q mp. One oi these I no;cce-
 q had hnle through rhe mar.mr,
 aud thi, wa the source cf 'he smell.
 The old M, xican who had hccn iaid
 away some twelve years before was
 passing of in the flavor of mud
 d. cay and p'is'ning all the air around the pl ce-
 then went {" the old graveyard
 on @ hull half q mile from the tow n,
 where the same kind Of tombs wa,
 found, and people had been in them ,
 t hund ed and ffiy years. The place
 Nas rot c, closed, and cattle had i rubbed tiff the ends of these oven- shaped bs and fifty Eodirs ill all {; stages of decay were exposed in ! tiiese old iombs. The stencil was
 like that from q bone yatd. l had ! some piiits of ammonia, anu wet a [ hauJker, hiei and held il to my nose
 and walked through the place Had i he wind blown for three days in succession over the town, lhe e;low fever would 1ave broken oni. In Central Mexico found he tom bs in the same condition. NJ doubt the Causes Of yellow lever at Vera Cruz, Guyamas, Laredo and New Orleans, can be traced direct 10 their old tombs.
 In 1887, at P'incetown, N. ' ., in a very oly sunmci, prominent
 NJ D. With grown mp iami were tuken sick, and the futLer and three of his family died III six weeks The cause was n mystery until an old resident re- mem bered tLat the weil from which ihe family got all ;he water they us' d was sunk were fifty years ago had been graveyard, and the death Of lhis fnmily Was traced direct to thIs cause.
 In 1867, in 8 town of 25,0OO pnpu- latl on in iowa. l Was coming down he street on hot day lH August, aud noticed crowd around the laor Of q church, and stepped up 10 Ot.k in, and found sermon just be- ng concluded of T school madam who had been very popu ar, and was -aken sick and died in three days. The und, rtaker topped up and 10 unscrew the lid of he C, fin, and nc sooner was il rais- 'd hen the penl>up ga~ st uck my ace as if water had been thiown lgainst il, and left at once. The : remained and viewed he copse, and that winter eight of those ntarest the cDffin were taken ick and died.
 Ten months ago passed Gaily mp he street south oG Trinity church. ] ard, Brooklyn, New ork, and loticed where tie tombs were near f he high wall that the wall was tained from inc tombs and were i hrowing of poisonous smell. 1 I loliced the same thing on the high 2 vail west of this church>yald. and hat he poison was leaking out of he churcli-yard in the rocks. Any - 'erson with sensitive smell can ettct the polsolous air from the :, ombs in Greenwood cemete y,
 The yellow fever in Memphis in f SIS, is said to have originated from ', he death of popular society lady ,ho was buried from church and he c, fin opened and the corpse iewed hy all the church. The next 2 ay the fever broke out among those who had attended tue funeral At lot SD ings, Ark, in 1880, they lnveG an cd graveyard to new eme cry s mile out of town. These we're nine-tenths strangers and aid why not cremaie them in a ' me kiln and not endanger the 1 eal'h of all the people in the town. :, { is tLus We endanger the lives of ', :, he living forwhat we cannot benefit T he dead
 The first thing 10 be done to re- !, tore the cOuniry to a sound and i, ygiepic condition is to cremaie all ', he departed who are buried above T he ground at New Orleans and all :, he Southern cites and Mexico, all he paupers who die, fiOatcrs. sui- tides, and pass law against expos , ng a corpse in church. This |, Fould be using common sense in r lece of a disease, maw kish nli- T ns nial'iy, and the health of the eople would be largely benefited.
 Mr C. E Daley, who has just res urned from Vii, OK, gives veiy ! laitcring report of the mines at Dos ]ab' zas. The ledgee are strong and vide, and cut through he mountain anges. In enc shaft ihe ore had !. veraged over ore hundred dollars 9er lon in gold, and q few days ago 7,