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Show TUB YlCKsHtvEii llrrahl gives the causa for; liic tcrriblo atuck q:' the yellow fever upon SIirevcporL I s.)T3 the town was in the most filthy condition, . Sink holus dotuj the etrccti?, and the bodies of half de-uiyed de-uiyed aniinaJs were ottered around promiscuwialy. Xos long since a boat containing a hundred Tcx;is cattle was sunk near tlic city, and these animals have Iven tishetl from the wreck act! Liken ubore tor tiieir hides, and w-ereartern-ard left bloatcl and A'oyim: in the sr:r;, ;h j-o n-ous-tenc'ii lining tiic whole air. Such invitations to an epidemic eon Id not very well le p.ss-d by. and the tcr-rihJo tcr-rihJo lc-on that has fKuwid is but the lhiinatc mjult i,f gro.se i-t i:e lcet of all law- uf health, and the most ordinary of sanitary pn.-.i:i-tions. It has seemed wonderful that Shreveport should j au sii:"l.xl out by the dread so .u;--. I ."a in'ihe light of theuU.-.,. inrnuiUen ihtrf is n ' longrr c.ui-e ...r i,:.u |