HEALTH. New Orleans has always been sub ject, at intervals, to visitations of yellow fever, and its sanitary reputation has been thereby seri ously impaired. Before the Civil War the worst epidemics were those of 1832, when more than 8000, out of a population of about 55,000, died of yellow fever and cholera; of 1847. when nearly 2500 died of yellow fever alone; and of 1853—the `Great Epidemie'—when fully 16,000 died from yellow fever and other causes. Its 1878 there was one which carried off 4000 persons in Louisi ana. In 1882, however, a thorough system of disinfecting vessels was established at the month of the Mississippi, and for fifteen years the fever was kept outside the boundaries of the State. In 1897 it was again introduced from a town in a neighboring State, where the disease had pre vailed fur some time without being recognized. In that year. according to the official report. there were in Louisiana 1935 cases, most of them in New Orleant:, but the total number of deaths was only 306. In the two subsequent years the disease appeared again, but still in a very mild form and with a low rate of mortality. In 1853 the death rate per 1000 of the
population from yellow fever alone was 50.9; in 1854 it was 15.4; in 1878. 19.20; in 1897, 1.90; in 1898, .20; and in 1899, only .07. Ilenc•e the city board of health has declared that "this once dreaded disease is no longer worthy of a place of dignity in our statistics as a life de stroyer." It may lie added that the geiwral cleaning up that has been given by the United States to the city of Havana is regarded as an important protective measure for New Orleans. Finally, the mildnes7s of the climate of New Or leans, and the outdoor life which such a climate renders possible. preServe the inhabitants to a large extent from many of the terrible ditesises common in other cities. The mortality among the colored population, which is generally im provident and careless of sanitation, is much higher than among the whites.