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YELLO’v FEVER AT BAY 'T. LOUIS 1053
"Report of the Sanitary Commission of New Orleans on the Epidemic Yellow Fever of 1853"	(185*0	p.6^-65
. TESTIMONY OF DR. J. K. VI. PICTON
Bay of St. Louis, Miss. —
His first case at the Bay of St. Louis occurred on July 15, 1853, the second on the 17th.
The first was a resident of New Orleans, the second had just arrived from Nicaragua. Both were young men, and both were taken sick on board of the steamboat from New Orleans on their passage across the Lake.
These were the first cases occurring at the Bay of St. Louis.
Previous to this time intermittents prevailed generally. The Doctor returned to town (tire sumably New Orleans), and cannot say if the disease spread from these cases.
Dr. Picton thinks the disease communicable from one person to another, wherever the epidemic influence prevails; thinks the disease vas imported this year.
The weather at the Bay of St. Louis was warm during the day and rather cool at night during the latter part of August and first of September. Westerly winds prevailed during the month of July and first of August.
Noticed much formation of mould during the summer.
Has never seen a second case of Yellow Fever occurring in the same individual.
Thinks the intemperate are more little, and the attack more likely to be fatal.
Thinks the ^epidemic ceased from want of subjects.
Has seen two cases of recovery from black vomit—one vas a young lady of fourteen; the other a negro of twelve years of age.
Always observed a peculiar odor in Yellow Fever patients. First noticed this in l8L+7.