Excerpt from History of the Epidemic Yellow Fever, at New Orleans, La., In 1853

But, with deep regret, I must say, in vain have these important facts been laid before a heedless community - facts involving the progress and prosperity of our city, and our pecuniary interests in an eminent degree but above all, involving our own lives and the safety of those scarcely less dear to us than life itself. In vain have the most probable chief causes of this disease been pointed out, as well as the good results that have followed the removal of such causes in various parts of the world. In vain has this community been informed by many of its philanthropic physicians and through successive reports of its Grand Juries, that those causes are to be found in this city from one year's end to another, and perhaps to a greater extent than in any other spot upon the globe. In vain have they been referred to their Hospitals, their Orphan flsylums, and their crowded cemeteries for the indubitable evidences of sick ness and death. With stoic indifference they have viewed these appalling scenes and turned a deaf ear to the advice and entreaties' of their monitors. Engrossed with the exciting occupations and enjoyments of the winter, they cast not a thought upon the evils that may come upon them in summer. When shown by the reports from their cemeteries that the annual mortality of this city, in pro portion to population, more than doubles that of any city either in Europe or America, they either disregard the solemn truth or flatly deny it - saying there must be some mistake, and calling those who bring to light such unwelcome facts, enemies to the city and tra ducers of its fair fame.

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