Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . e by the marinehospital service to assist the several boards of health is marvelous, if wecompare it with the means at the disposal of this government bureau andthe authority it has to enforce the necessary measures for the preventionof the spread of an epidemic. DODGING DEATH of onevelop By Fayette C. Ewing, M. D., of St. Louis. PROPOS of the sporadic yellow fever epi-demic in the South, with its attenuatedvirus, and the extensive hegira, we seehuman nature at its foolishness of it all!Citing the city of New Orleans, withits population of
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . e by the marinehospital service to assist the several boards of health is marvelous, if wecompare it with the means at the disposal of this government bureau andthe authority it has to enforce the necessary measures for the preventionof the spread of an epidemic. DODGING DEATH of onevelop By Fayette C. Ewing, M. D., of St. Louis. PROPOS of the sporadic yellow fever epi-demic in the South, with its attenuatedvirus, and the extensive hegira, we seehuman nature at its foolishness of it all!Citing the city of New Orleans, withits population of three hundred thousand,as an object-lesson, there have been approx-imately onethousand cases and one hundreddeaths, a mortality of ten per cent. Theoutbreak was not until fall, and there wasnever any real danger of an extensiveepidemic. One in three thousand of theentire population attacked, and one-thirdper cent, have died. When we consider the great numbers that de-phthisis, and that fifteen per cent, of all the deaths that occur in this. 540 Original Articles country are due to that disease; that pneumonia, the most prevalent ofserious acute diseases, has a mortality of often twenty per cent., and thatthe death-rate in some American cities, from all causes, reaches the enor-mous ratio annually of twenty-five in every thousand, we have an illus-tration of the folly of this fear. We have named only two of the thousandills that flesh is heir to, some one of which will surely close our mortalaccount; and when we figure on the chances in the game of life and death,this helter-skelter flight becomes a mere shuffle against loaded dice; ajuggle with the inevitable; an attempt at playing hide-and-seek with theLords High Executioner, with a one-sided cravennessof it all! Doctors in search of scientific facts driven back by bayonets. Everyday, on every train, out of the jaws of death rode the six hundred. Wellfor the shot-gun brigade to corral the cowards. We read of a husb
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