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which occurred from exposure of one of the soldiers who
instituted to prevent the introduction or to limit the diffu-
visited the infectious quarters of the Massachusetts regiment
sion of either of those infections, and as a consequence,
which we have mentioned. In this instance, the case of
many lives were sacrificed, and the military effectiveness of
scarlatina was removed a short distance from the lines of
the regiment has thereby been nearly destroyed.
the encampment the hour that the evidences of his disease
In the month of December, 1862, a first-class new regi-
appeared, and a rigid domestic quarantine of the sick man
Scarlatina deci-
ment arrived in New York, en route to the seat of war, from
mates a new reg-
and his clothing was established. His nurse was the only
iment, and its lo-
its rendezvous in Massachusetts. A case of scarlatina
calizing condi-
other victim of the infection. After a detention of a few
tions nearly de-
stroy the corps.
appeared during the trip hither. The men were assigned
weeks, when these four regiments were sent forward to the
to close and insalubrious quarters in the lofts of a warehouse
Ultimate results
field, the one last mentioned had its full quota of men ;
in these four reg-
in this city. The cases of scarlatina continued to multiply
iments.
while the three others had only about two-thirds the number
from day to day and from week to week, until nearly two
of soldiers who, a few weeks previously, had gone into their
hundred cases had occurred, and until one of the most pro-
encampment in full health-except the single company in
mising regiments ever organized had become so broken
which the measles first appeared.
30 per cent.
the strength
of of down by this cause that the dead, together with discharged
We might add other illustrative instances of the pernicious
the command
hopelessly lost
invalids, amounted to an aggregate of nearly two full com-
effects of the exanthematous contagions in camps, but they
panies. This regiment left its pestiferous quarters in the
would all tend merely to strengthen this cumulative testi-
city, after a detention of about two months, with its military
mony to the hygienic utility and military necessity of special
Preventive san-
effectiveness diminished, as estimated by its veteran colonel,
restrictive measures for arresting and preventing the spread
itary measures
against exanthe-
fully thirty per cent. upon its original strength of one thou-
of this class of diseases. And what is true of exanthematous
matous diseases
necessary in the
The localizing
causes of the en-
sand men. And it is worthy of mention here that the local
contagions, is practically, though in a modified sense, true
army.
demic produced
other diseases.
conditions that had rendered scarlatina so fatally endemic,
of other diseases that depend upon specific and infectious
also prostrated the strength of every man, and induced
poisons. The special sanitary measures, which such poisons
various inflammatory and typhous maladies which broke
require for their control, may all be comprised under the
down the health and vigor of men who seldom had known
simple rule that-
Measles intro-
duced into four
sickness previously.
The immediate sources of infectiors poisons should
be
A general rule
In the autumn of 1862, four full regiments of nine months'
to be observed in
new regiments at
properly isolated from uninfected persons, the localizing
relarion to all in-
the same en-
campment.
men were ordered to encamp, while waiting transportation,
fections.
conditions of their endemic prevalence should be removed,
in the vicinity of the Bay of New York, upon a plain that
and every circumstance that adds to their virrulence or tends
Effectiveness
of had already been much used as a camping ground. Measles
domestic quar-
to give them existence or activity, should be prevented or
antine.
had already appeared in one of the regiments, and soon the
controlled by sanitary measures.
infection had extended to the three other commands. In
The statements and suggestions that follow in these pages
Applications of
one regiment only was the malady subjected to an effectual
this rule.
will present practical illustrations and specific applica-
and rigidly enforced domestic quarantine. In that camp
tions of this rule ; and the fact will constantly appear that
the measles ceased with the occurrence of the second case.
such hygienic measures against infectious poisons and their
Neglect of
such In the three other camps no such measures of personal iso-
immediate causes, are also the most effective sanitary works
measures result-
ed in great losses.
lation of the sick were adopted until upwards of three hun-
for the general prevention of disease and the improvement
dred cases of that disease had occurred.
of health.
Arrest of scar-
In the camp mentioned, where measles was arrested,
latina by means
Regarding all cases of infection and contagion, whether
of the same meas-
the utility of effectual domestic isolation for arresting the
ures that arrest-
ed measles.
spread of scarlatina had been tested in a case of that disease
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