Compulsory vaccination : the establishment of a uniform system of vaccination for all citizens and inhabitants of the state of Louisiana, by legislative enactment / by Joseph Jones.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Date:
[1878?]
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Credit: Compulsory vaccination : the establishment of a uniform system of vaccination for all citizens and inhabitants of the state of Louisiana, by legislative enactment / by Joseph Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    IS The estimate of 155,000 white inhabitants for 1876, as given by the Board of Health in its official mortuary reports, is perhaps too high, especially as it will be seen from the records of the United States Census, that while in 1SG0 the white population numbered 1-44:596, in 1S70 it had decreased to 140,923, showing an actual loss, in ten years, of 3673. On the other hand, the blacks and colored had increased from 27,074 in 1860 to 50,456 in 1870; increase of blacks and colored during this period, 23,382. Whilst the negro population of New Orleans had nearly doubled itself in these 10 years, 1860-1S70, inclusive, ou the contrary, dur- ing the ten years preceding 1850-1860, the white population had increased from S9,459 to 144,596, showing a gain of 55,137; and the negro population from 26,916 to 27,074, showiug a gain in this element of only 15S. A complete revolution, therefore, was made in the population of New Orleans by the results of the Civil War. The loss of 3673 white citizens during the period embracing the Civil War, 1SGO-1870, did not represent the actual destruc- tion occasioned amongst the whites by the casualties of the war, for it will be admitted on all hands, that a large immigration set in to New Orleans from all parts of the Southern States after the close of the war, and this city probably contained a larger white population in 1866 and 1867 than at any previous or sub- sequent time. The decrease in the white population of New Orleans after the Civil War appears to have been caused chiefly by the so-called reconstruction measures of the Eepublican Party of the Northern States, vigorously executed by the President of the United States. By the absorption of all public offices by men alien to the people of Louisiana, by the reckless waste of the illegal and ruinous taxes wrung from the conquered proviuce, by the dis- franchisement of her best citizens, and by the destruction of her resources and credit, the tide of white immigration was not ouly turued from Louisiana, but thousands of her best white citizens left New Orleans. The white populatiou of New Orleans, therefore, during the sixteen years, 1861-1876, inclusive, so far from receiving any actual and substantial additions by foieigu and domestic immi- gration, actually lost a considerable portion of its permanent