The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-19

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ance, cooperation. It Yields moral and
spiritual power greater than
any physical power any ORA
CONAN legislation might give IT,
The contendiug parties will listen to il
when they would not begin to listen to
each other. If it is armed with physical
powers to compel The enforcement Of reg
ulations and of laws, Immediately will it
lose its prestige and VIII be fought by all
as a common enemy.
The lessons of this year VIII go far to
cure the genuine fears of the fever and
the localities stiH rejecting the Atlanta
regulations for commercial reasons will
be shamed into adopting them when it is
demonstrated to the world that tons of
freight and thousands of people were
passed through without carrying disease
under The folds Of the Atlanta regulations.
Rayne La, is most beautiful example
Of the result of education. Whereas last
year She would suffer no train to go
through, even with windows down, and
at full speed this year she has laid down
the gun for the Atlanta regulations and
IS peaceably and cheerfully doing her share
in the noble work of common good. An
other educational point is that the parishes
adjoining New Orleans have voluntarily
petitioned tie state board to hold commun-
ication with the city at the cost of being
themselves guaranteed by the balance of
the state. 1t was granted to them
Plaquemines, st. Bernard, st. Tammany,
St. Charles. Jefferson fright bank and St
John the Baptist Again. the city itself
has been free from panic and no exodus
took place.
However, the Atlanta regulations should
be revised and improved. No one real
ICES this better than myself. who wrote
them, with the invaluable assistance of
DR.. II. r. Garter. The work was then done
hurriedly, because time was pressing, and
we had 10 accept that or have nothing rea-
sonabe and practical. Towns and parishes
must also organize their boards of health
and be prepared at a moments notice to
repair to any locality where a slightly sus-
picous case exists and care for il accord
ing to the printed instructions of the Lou
isiana state board of health, as set forth
In the pamphlet entitled, instructions to
Medical Inspectors and to Health Officers
for the Management of Yellow Fever"
The marine hospital should also have
Southern states department thoroughly
and Systematically organized in its three
great departments; the merciful assistance
of the sick; the quick handling of the
freight, and the management OF the de-
tonuon camps. All this should be so plan
ned In all the details that upon the first
outbreak or alarm the whole machinery
would set to work like a modified army.
The people must also be educated TO recog-
nize that the virulence of the disease is
much diminished. The people must realize
also the gigantic strides made by the mod
ern scientific methods in the diagnosis of
the disease and its treatment, which have
contributed materially to the decrease in
the death rate. Also especially in the I'M
limited powers of antisepsis in the con-
trolling of the disease, If but applied at
the beginning of each case. They must
understand that, although isolation and
detention are valuable adjuncts, the sheet
anchor is the antisepsis, that is, the de-
structon of the germs as fast as they
leave the body of the patient through the
eXcretions of all sorts, and before they
turn into dust and infect the room then
the house and then the neighborhood
The results demonstrated in the isolation
hospital in New orleans in 1897 sounded
the gladdening peal of relief and assur-
ance in the hearts of all. There the citl-
zens threatened TO burn and actually be-
gan to burn down the Beauregard School
which it had been decided to turn into
a yellow fever hospital. They said that
it would be a pest house that would infect
all the neighborhood. And yet. the final
results proved, TO the amazement of all
that not only not a single case in the
neighboThood had come from it, but that
within It's own walls no case developed
among any Of the sisters. nurses and at
PENDANTS, although several were non-lm-
munes.
This was also the case with the Touro
Infirmary and the Hotel Dieu.
The yellow fever of to-day is not the
yellow fever of old times. Ii is now so
comparatively mild that il stands to old
yellow fever like varioloid stands 10 varl-
ola or mild smallpox. 1t should be called
yelowod, and not yellow fever. The NOR
tally In the city of New Orleans, in 1897
was POS, or about 1 to 1000 Inhabitants,
regardless of the number of cases of fe-
yer. The total number Of cases from re-
able returns, in the two states of Louisi-
ana and Mississippi, up 10 Oct 15 is 66l
and the total number of deaths r. The
mortality, therefore, is 4.S3 per cent less
than grippe influenza, typhoid fever or
scarlet fever. This Is not a quarantine
disease. Yellow fever should be at
tackled at its origin. The most immedi-
ately applicable methods should be at once
resorted 10. This consists in erecting dis
injecting plants at the points Of departure
SlIuildE III every AtHAiItl 10 AilG one at the
Mississippi river quarantine station.
All vessels going to the United States,
North or South, should be compelled to
first stop at the station 20 be thoroughly
disinfected, as is done al the Mississippi
river quarantine station. Then each day
Of the voyage should count as a day o?
detention. When the ship arrives at a
quarantine station without having devel-
oped sickness on board, she should be al
lowed to proceed without further dislnfec-
ton or detention.
Vessels going North should be also sub.
ject to this treatment because with the
rapid means of travel of the day persons
can leave an infected port for a United
States northern port and then come TO a
southern locality in a very few days. Be
sides, he may carry the germs OF the dis
ease In his baggage, even if he himself
be an immune, and that is why the bag
gage should be disinfected Then the
fever ports themselves must be thorough
w sanitated in their tidal currents. their
wharves, their sewerage drainage paving.
garbage removal and water supply. etc.