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Domestic News
September 29, 1819
Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
What is this article about?
Letter from Baton Rouge dated 30th ultimo reports widespread disease with nearly every house having 1-3 sick; contrasts with reports of New Orleans burying about 40 persons daily.
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A letter from Baton Rouge, of date the 30th ultimo, gives a distressing account of the prevalence of disease in that quarter.
"There is scarcely a house in town that has not from one to three sick in it." The same letter tells a very different story of the health of New-Orleans from those which we have by way of New York and other outports. "I am told," says the writer, "by those who can be relied on, just from New Orleans, that they bury about forty persons a day in that city. What another month may produce, Heaven only knows."
[Nat. Intelligencer.
"There is scarcely a house in town that has not from one to three sick in it." The same letter tells a very different story of the health of New-Orleans from those which we have by way of New York and other outports. "I am told," says the writer, "by those who can be relied on, just from New Orleans, that they bury about forty persons a day in that city. What another month may produce, Heaven only knows."
[Nat. Intelligencer.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disease Or Epidemic
What keywords are associated?
Baton Rouge Disease
New Orleans Epidemic
Daily Burials
Sickness Outbreak
Where did it happen?
Baton Rouge
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Baton Rouge
Event Date
30th Ultimo
Outcome
scarcely a house without one to three sick in baton rouge; about forty persons buried daily in new orleans.
Event Details
Letter reports distressing prevalence of disease in Baton Rouge with nearly every house having sick individuals; writer informed of high death rate in New Orleans from reliable sources recently arrived there.