Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1876 — The Fever in Brunswicl, Ga.-Suffering and Destitntion. [ARTICLE]

The Fever in Brunswicl, Ga.-Suffer-ing and Destitntion.

B*trV*W»k.Cf<;lßeptln, 187«. The Anrusta («!u) VAjwUsl* print* the for mtdicnl 0 ortand mffier, Col too Mt< write yon • few lines to acquaint you with - • • . * . .r* -k **&.' .. J o,; *-'

the fearful condition of our people, and to request you to publish an appeal for help in one of your city papers. Upon the anwas in existence In our midst,*for the first time in the history of Brunswick, the people were, otpoune. panic-stricken, and along the'fWiSpailrX EZrUng "rtorn ,Uiis djy, land <%hpy them stricken with tlie ofsease since leaving town, in places where they cannot procure medical altonttow lam -malanMy ren ceivtog calls In the country that I X&TZ& atesT, affairs in the city. Our medical force is enough pereeAf well to* wait upon t tie sick; consequently, our people are ah olutely dying for the t IcJ ydil may tie awdre fconditlc q~‘ I have had the disease, skThave heoar-( at iof bed only about ten ’ days, t aiyice. wi)i and. night with Btfle or no, slqep < Eve y adult member t it ’ r 'my fabrfly isf doi m with the ferferßvC cahW'ih toy Hoc so, and mo nurses to behad j My sister, w lehas recovered, and is barely able to £E ff»a #. Yesterday, I attended between sixty and aeveirty cases, dame ‘.’to about twelve ,o’clock at ' night, and' alone nursed toy fapiyy until, morning. yJ Have , aUqptl|“d over fifty cages 1 to-uay. and am going thrdUgh thc same ordeal to night. long I shall be abk td etoUite* 'toe mcotal and physical straih, ifcKxi alone knows. My experieaqo, is about the experience of aft others. f fltiaVft visited families where there was n6t a lligto member up: dependent entiroly upon whet’negro help can be>procu#(*f. This you are aware makes the chance bf recovery extremely doubtful. In to otfier ilia, our supply of aid rimßishment is almost entirety cxiiaustetl. We ire quarantined in suck a thornier tlgit expected supplies have Sailed'to roach ns fconj. New York, Vessels will, not corhe in, and we'hayi.bfeen able tp ptodure blit vety little frdm the' intertor', Tfitge fimot to-night a single ounce_ (ft qutotob 1 in'the place, and not a box i of- mustard too t be had. Of couree, other needed articles are as soarce. Food for the. sick is about as se&rcqas ihecf!clne. Tmrchai not beCrfa poiAtT of fresh beef m towil'for several days, and not a single ounce of Liebig’s' extract. 1, have just been' compelled- to refuse to visit two sick children,' beqause I haiie no one to leave in charge of A nly sick family. Twophysidans/ovcfept mVaelf, aie all that are able to get afrmiid. 11 wifi not enumerate other grievances for fear you may think. lam complaining,, which is not my intention.'• . ~

JAMES S. BLAINE,

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