The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-26

not a variety oftyphus, as It Is now held to be.
sb Eysn at at s ssS iI is, nav Spt Q W,n %saf bs ss 2SsSn
while DR. Murray. y. s.. NJ. II. s., declared the
disease to be yellow fever, two other physicians,
and ali three agreed that many Of the marked
characteristics of yellow fever were missing.
th @qs! declare St sro't that Wnq the ep9 disease sef Is ' he@Srr lSSSe
malarial lricel fever. The old doctors could
not distinguish between this disease ~ yellow
''pernicious fever" The difference was not
clearly marked until 1888, The symptoms are
Ma mSp s%% Gec, ana t bSys mSS cen dSc d SSOi T. the the ' stmi:
larity Of the two fcvers.. Some fourteen years
ago a fever broke out In Plaquemine parish.
below New Orleans. not far from tho Quaran-
tine station. 1t spread along the Mississippi,
but did not prove very fatal. Tho doctors dis
ss1s e as Of to the i: f { nifoS Of st tns@' A lnElSd am emf mi:
nent amtho ity. inclining to the belief that it
was yellow fever.
diagnosticians Louisiana has produced, visited
Plaquomine. investigated the fever, and dem.
onstrated With mathemStic9l accuracy that It
ly prevailed on Bayou waxia, in st. Landry.
1t was shown in both cases that the maledy
could not spread far from the rice fields. hut
could easily DO mistaken for yellow fever in its
DR.. De Montluzin believes that there arc a few
yellow fever cases In New Orleans, but that n
majority of the cases here are what are known
in India us sun ardent" or common con:
between dcngue and yellow fever. with some Of
the characteristics Of both, has been mistaken
by some for yellow fever, by others for donggS;
fever, one, mild. tho other severe, The facts
fever at ali, are brought forward to prove that
1t IL. yellow fever OF n milder type than that
o SsSSl1y s knGws h Rils,i. It Ss Is eSS5 1ianSs, % ana Ea d.
q old. and the dhSss'@nSoo mortality Is much lighter; IN
u .dfty.nino cases and but a single death,
while the average of yellow fever Is one death
in three cases. When it is further considered
that the disease was not properly treated or
nnrsod, that the patients received quinino and
other medicine never given in yellow fever.
and go about at a time, when rising is deemed
fatal in yellow fever. the low mortality is inn
stana' r for B tho Yc there fever We're e1 fBBTes d to qnse to
nine, but half Of the Now Orleans deaths were
sons very sick from other maladies. In one
cas- case t the p@ N,Sbil. w Tis MEYER 9SS Gil buried iod In 4 S99lSS
nounced dying-a fact which supports the the,
DRY entertained along the Gulf coast that, vel.
defective quarantine, and is therefore more
violent there, and has, been modified and
wf Tbs tSeo as It Of has a n sP6dGsfe ei aSS Weakened vel.
low fever is proved beyond All question, 50 far
as the disease has gone. Whether it will get
is not SO bad as many previous cpidemics.
Whether this IS due to the long exemption of the
country from the disease or to n considerable
modification in its form may be determined
later, or it may be that, owing to the improved
sanitary condition of our cities, yellow fever is
losing its grip, rs typhus has done in so. many
English towns, as yellow fever itself has done in
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Balti.
more, where it formerly ragged. Its habitat has
been steadily reduced; its power GEMS broken.
1t has created perhaps n worse scare this year
than ever before, and yet, so, far, the risi,
tation has been very mild. All these cirClim.
ton.