The cause and prevention of yellow fever at New Orleans and other cities in America / by E.H. Barton.
- Barton, Edward H.
- Date:
- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The cause and prevention of yellow fever at New Orleans and other cities in America / by E.H. Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The real mor-perennial health, and have wo found out the perpetual elixir? taiity lor half The vecord in chart A contains what ha.s been the memoria, the acentury. terrible memoria of the past, and it belongs to the present peo- ple to say what that record shall exhibit in future. I invite atten- tion to this chart now merely to show what has been the mor- tality of the city for half a century, (I shall direct attention to it hereafter for other purposes.) There may be errors in it, but where records of the past are so difBcult to be obtained as they are here, it was impossible to do better. This record then exhibits an annual average mortality during Average mor-^l^g^^ loug period, including the disastrous year 1853, 59.63 per taUty for hall j^qqq the population—7nore than double what it would doubt- atentury. j^^^ have been, had proper sanitary measures been adopted and efficiently enforced at an early period. To what this large mor- tality is to be properly ascribed, will be pointed out in its proper place, and we shall then see if our situation will admit of corrective measures or not. The wealth of a city depends mainly upon the number of its inhabitants—labor is wealth—population and labor are its most productive elements;—a system of measures that is irrespective e true^jp the^oor,—of the immigrant,—of that class that has raised this city from the swamp and made it what it is:—that has cleared the land and drained it,—made the streets—constructed the dwellings, and done so much to develop its destiny, is void of justice to the laborers who are worthy of their hire, and is a reflection upon the proprietors who profit by it. The value of real estate rises with competition where there is no overplus in market—the quantity of merchandise sold, depends upon the Thereaicaufejj^^jjj^jgj.'q£ cousumers and purchasers. If there is increased of the ighj.j[g], and jeopardy of life, an enhanced price is put upon every price of every-^^^.^^^ sold. High food, (whcu wc ought to havc the cheap- est market in America)—clothing—merchandise of eveiy de- scription,—high rents,—low real estate,—high wages for mechanical labor of all kinds—high price for professional talent; —these are the real reasons, as I am informed by intelligent merchants at home and abroad, why we have the dearest market](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20402521_0140.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
