The Dickinson press., 1898-09-10

50, OF lmmuneS,
I'D from New Orleans alone.
che offers had to DO declined. The
First immune regiment wal assigned to
Texas, and when it was organized the
immune provision was altogether ig-
nored. This was done on the ground
that the law said nothing about yellow
fever, and, secondly, because Of the diff
Guilty Of determining whether or not an
enlisted man was immune. The doctor
does not usually give a patient a certif-
cate that he has had yellow fever, and
the only proof of immunity-and that
is by nc mean an absolute one-is the
fact that one has been in a city where
an epidemic Of yellow fever has prevail
ed. As the last Texas epidemic occurred
in 1867 and the fever then appeared in
only a few coast towns it will be seen
that the chances Of a recruit from Texas
being an immune are very small. The
First immune regiment is therefore 80
only in name. The fact that it comes
from q southern state may make it
slightly more proof against tropical dis
eases, but, the differences in this respect
between it and any ordinary regular
regiment Of the United States army is
small.
The Second immune regiment was
assigned to Louisiana. and is a little
more nearly immune than the First.
Colonel Hood lost both his father (Gen-
eral J. B. Hood of Confederate fame)
and his mother of yellow fever in the
epidemic Of 1879 and is himself an i'm
mune. The New Orleans part Of his
regiment is also immune. The fact that
the regiment was recruited at Coving-
ton, near New Orleans, attracted to it a
number OF recruits from that city and
renders it relatively more nearly inn
mune than the. First.
There is no lack Of yellow fever Inn
munes In the United States army. The
only trouble is that, instead of being
concentrated in regiments, they have
been scattered among a score or more.
The Second Louisiana volunteers is far
more immune than either Of the two so
called immune regiments. It comes
wholly fomaNew, Orleans, where yell
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the population immune. Fully W per
cent Of Its officers and. men have had
yellow :fever: 81: nursed II, and it could
be stationed anywhere IN Cnb without
danger. Nearly half the men of the
First Louisiana r immune. The Sec
ondE mississippi and the First Alabama
contain many immunes. 80 does the
Fifth: United States volunteers, while
the Ninth UnltedStates volunteers (col-
ored) contains more than 80 per cent OF
1mmunes, II OF ~ ~ companies pelng
from New Orleans
The war FEVER 9 ragged perhaps more
violently IN New Orleans than IN any
other parton the country, and the city
has contributed more than ten times its
quota and has Tiled up the iscanty regl-
ments OF Alabama and Mississlppi The
rural districts OF the southwest have
fallen far behind their quotas, and their
deficiencies have been made good main
~ by New Orleans. This is the more
remarkable because in the civil war
these districts furnished Tar more than
their proportion to the Confederate
army. Alabama has fallen short Of it's
quota and had TO furnish as Its third
regiment negro organization. Missis-
stppi has had to open recruiting offices
In New Orleans.
When the original call was made by
the president Louisiana was asked to
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