HOSPITAL REPORTS. If time had been allowed us, we might have obtained interesting reports from all the hospitals in our city for the present number of our Journal, but under existing circumstances it has been impossible to attend to it. All of them have been full. In the month of June last, there were admitted into the Charity Hospital 1,216 patients, the greatest number that ever entered that hospital in the same time. -It The first death from yellow fever that occurred at the Charity Hospital, was on the 7th of July. From that time to the 22nd of August, the number of deaths from yellow fever at this institution was 362. is now the predominant disease of the house, and the deaths have been as high as 27 a day. This hospital will furnish some interesting fever statistics when the epidemic is over. MAIN BUILDING. June-Admitted: Males, 879: Females, 346. Total 1216. Discharged: Males, 665; Females, 247. Total 912. (Lunatic Asylum, 101.) MAIN BUILDING. July-Admitted: Males, 802; Females, 166. Total 968. ABSTRACT OF A METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL FOR 1847. BY D. T. LILLIE, AT THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. Latitude, 29 deg. 57 min.; Longitude, 90 deg. 07 min. west of Greenwich. S.W. N. 2-317 4 2.960 2-677 4 5.015 8 87.0 74.0 13.0 30.17 30.00 0.17 S.E. 3 1 0.050 15 90.0 73.5 16.5 30.18 30.04 0.14 s.w. 3 3 0.385 REMARKS.-The Thermometer used for these observations is not attached to the Barometer, but is a self-registering one, and is placed in a fair exposure. Regular hours of observation, 8 A. M., 2 P. M. and 8 P. M. The Barometer is located at an elevation of 19 feet above the level of the ocean, and is suspended clear of the wall of the building. The Rain Guage is graduated to the thousandth part of an inch, and the receiver is elevated 40 feet from the ground. S. WOODALL, No. 49 Camp st., N. O., Publisher. W. H. WELD, JOHN B. WELD, THOS. WATERMAN, H. N. LEWIS. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The above constitute at present the only authorized Agents for this Journal. All monies or remittances may be paid or sent to either of the above as may be preferred-and to them only. We mention this fact for the benefit of our Subscribers many of whom have sent monies to other persons not authorized to receive the same and in many cases the amounts have failed to reach their destination. We therefore repeat that we will consider no payment as valid, should it fail to reach us, if addressed to any other persons than those mentioned above. New Orleans, May 1, 1847. NOTE BY THE PUBLISHER. Subscribers are respectfully requested to give due notice to the Publisher of any change of residence that they may contemplate or may be making, in order that their numbers may be properly mailed to their address. We mention this in consequence of having numbers sent back to us from various points with the post office endorsement of "moved away" or something of that sort, besides the expense of postage. The same suggestions we would likewise offer to those who may desire the work to be discontinued, as in consequence of the great increase in our subscription list, we have no numbers to throw away by sending them where they are not wanted. We would remark in connection with the above, that in consequence of the repeal of the law granting to Post-masters the privilege of drawing drafts upon each other for amounts of subscription, we shall be much obliged to our patrons if they will remit the amount of their dues by enveloping a good and solvent bank bill, and addressing it by mail as below. Due credit will be given as in the next page of the present number. S. WOODALL, Publisher |