Orleans Epidemic Data
1824 Epidemic News Stories

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
September 29, 1824
New Orleans
The ship Crawford, arrived at New York from New Orleans, brings accounts to the 26th ult. We are sorry to find by these, that the sickness was increasing, the deaths averaging about ten per day. The thermometer had ranged since the month of June, with a few exceptions at 87 to 96. The Louisiana Advertiser of the 21st, remarks that “most of the cases of disease thus far, have been confined to strangers, but it now appears that the sickness shows greater symptoms of malignancy; and we are fearful it will become now general in its effects. The admonition of the Board of Health, respecting the departure of strangers, was timely, and we hope has been attended to. All those people who have not the means of profiting by this advice, can be supplied on application to the Mayor, by the humane provision of the City Council.”

The deaths at New Orleans from the 10th to the 16th Aug. were 56 – Of this number, 32 are reported to have died of fever, viz:. yellow fever, 15 – malignant fever, 3 – putrid fever, 3 – bilious fever, 5 – remittent fever, 3 – fever, 3.

Deaths on the 17th, fourteen – 18th, nine – 19th, sixteen – 20th, seven – 21st, eleven – 22d, fourteen – 24th, nine
[Balt. Amer. [Submitted by Nancy Piper]

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