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beautifid new land. They passed along great swamps of cypress trees which were nonexistent in England. Finally they reached their destination, New Orleans, which was the portal through which most immigrants going west entered. Upon arrival, one of the first things Henry did was write a letter to Martha Bristol. He also sent her a New Orleans newspaper. The population of this city at that time was approximately one-half million, half of which were slaves. The health of the inhabitants was notoriously bad as they were subject to yellow fever and cholera, along with other maladies. Deaths mounted to two hundred daily. The worst of the diseases was cholera which spread through the western United States in the late 1840's and early 1850's. The epidemic was at its peak when the Argo anived. The disease raged up river, thence west across the plains where it ravaged like an uncontrolled prairie fire. Whole tribes of hdians died of it. The redmen fled before the whites who brought the plague upon them. Cholera is a disease of the human intestines caused by bacteria which enters the body through the mouth in contaminated food or water. Patients were known to have died in as little as six hours, but the disease usually took several days to run its course. By present standards the ignorance of the time was appalling. The unlearned felt that the h e s in the air canied the disease and great campaigns were waged in which sulphur was burned to purify the air. Lime was spread on the streets and all kinds of remedies were proposed. Bloodletting was advocated, but finally one doctor found success in washing down medicines in small doses with "lots of fluids." He accidentally hit on the only successful remedy, which was fluid and not medicine. Approximately fifty per cent of those who contracted cholera died, mainly from dehydration. The water was, undoubtedly, the source of the problem in New Orleans and in other areas, as there was no such thing as water treatment and chlorination." Henry must have had a natural immiunity to the disease because he was certainly exposed to it on the ship and nearly every place he went. The steamboat-cotton wealth was developing along the mighty Mississippi. One enthusiast called the New Orleans waterfront "the ~ master street of the ~ o r l d . " ' Nowhere else, it was said, could be
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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