. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . YELLOW FEVKR THE CHARITY HOSPITAL. 63 climate of Louisiana may render an organism somewhat more languid andeffeminate than that of the Northerner, there are few of the wretched chroniccomplaints, terminating in lingering illness and painful death, which resultfrom the racking conflict of extremes in the New England climate. .%4 ,.. *i ^ ^ « 1
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . YELLOW FEVKR THE CHARITY HOSPITAL. 63 climate of Louisiana may render an organism somewhat more languid andeffeminate than that of the Northerner, there are few of the wretched chroniccomplaints, terminating in lingering illness and painful death, which resultfrom the racking conflict of extremes in the New England climate. .%4 ,.. *i ^ ^ « 1^ m %. The Chanty Hospital—New Orleans Many Louisianians disbelieve in the efficacy of quarantine against the yellowfever. They say that, during seventy years, from 1796 to 1870, they had quar-antine nineteen times, and in each of those nineteen years the dread fever atleast showed its ugly face. The war quarantine, they assert, failed every yearof the four that it was in operation. The Charity Hospital has received cases ofyellow fever annually for the last fifty years. Only in two cases, however, wherethe proper quarantine precautions had been taken, had the disease assumed theproportions of a general plague. The general impression is that the fever willcertainly carry off unacchmated persons; but physicians in the hospitals assertthat there has been no evidence of the transmission of the fever in hospitalwards to unacclimated people; and as they have watched cases for weeks afterexposure, their testimony should be considered valuable. Previous to the war,no proper attention had been pai
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