BOUND VOLUMES
October 22, 2020
200 YEARS AGO
Dispatch From New Orleans – The fever raging here is equal to the plague of the Barbary States. Not more than one out of ten of the newcomers who have had the temerity to remain here this season, has escaped death and the disease has been uncommonly rapid. From four to six days have been the extent of life after the patient was attacked. The number of deaths for the last week were 146. They died with the black vomit generally, in possession of all their reasoning faculties. The letter gives a gloomy picture of the scenes of distress that have passed under the writer’s eye. What makes it worse is that every season it changes its character, so far as not to be subdued by the same treatment that was successful in a preceding one.
October 23, 1820
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