Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the New Orleans Auxiliary Sanitary Association
In the second District we have 87 cases per Ward N o. 2, bounded by Canal, Rampart, and St. Louis streets, and the swamp, having more than double the amount of the average of the district, or 173 per embraces in its limits all the cemeteries of the district, (or four squares) in which were buried that year bodies, also the open and half stagnant Claiborne and'canal St. The filthy conduits in the rear, the receptacle of a large proportion of the foul and corrupting material of'the upper part of the city and vicinity, and the infin ence of the swamps and open drains beyond.
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