ISBN: 9780217752794

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1884. Excerpt: ... XXXIX. BRIGHTER SKIES. UT of this nettle, danger, says the great bard, we pluck this flower, safety. The dreadful scourge of 1853 roused the people of New Orleans, for the first time, to the necessity of knowing the proven truth concerning themselves and the city in which they dwelt. In the midst of the epidemic, the city council had adjourned, and a number of its members had fled. But, in response to popular demand, a board of health had appointed the foremost advocates of quarantine and municipal cleansing a commission to study and report the melancholy lessons of the plague. It labored arduously for many months. At its head was that mayor of New Orleans, Crossman by name, whose fame for wise and protracted rule is still a pleasant tradition of the city, and whose characteristic phrase-- a great deal to be said on both sides --remains the most frequent quotation on the lips of the common people to-day. Doctors Barton, Axson, McNeil, Symonds, and Riddell,--men at the head of the medical profession,--completed the body. They were bold and faithful, and they effected a revolution. The thinking and unbiased few, who in all communities must first receive and fructify the germ of truth, were convinced. The technical question of the fever''s contagiousness remained unsettled; but its transportability was fearfully proven in a multitude of interior towns, and its alacrity in seeking foul quarters and its malignancy there were plainly shown by its history in the city. The commission pronounced in favor of quarantine, and it was permanently established, and has ever since become, annually, more and more effective. They earnestly recommended, ydso, the purging of the city, and keeping it purged, by y proper drainage and sewerage, of all those foul conditions that were daily poisoning it... George Washington Cable, Books, History, The Creoles of Louisiana Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Charles Scribner's Sons in 1884 in 348 pages; Subjects: Creoles; French Louisiana; New Orleans (La.) History; New Orleans (La.); French; Spanish; French in Louisiana; New Orleans; Fiction / Literary; History / United States / General; History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / South; History / Americas; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Travel / United States / South / West South Central;<