Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-15
The Yellow Fever

The Board Of Health Of Norfolk for The
twenty flour hours ending on the 18th at 2
o'clock, report in the city. new cases and 3
deaths, and at Vie hospital death.
The Richmond and Petersburg papers, re-
ceivsd last night, furnish the following addi-
tionsl items of intelligence from Norfolk and
Portsmouth up to Sunday morning:
The people are continuing their fight from
Norfolk by every possible mode Of convey
ance. The steamer Coffee was chartered by
the Hon. John s. Millson and some three or
four others, all Of whom arrived at City Point
Sunday afternoon, with their families in good
health. They took the cars of the South Side
railroad yesterday for the mountains.
All the verbal accounts from Norfolk report
great sickness and distress prevailing through
out the city. In Portsmouth the disease IL
said to be not at all abating. Mr.. James L
Wilson, retired merchant, died Of the fever
on Saturday.
The Norfolk Bulletin has been temporarily
suspended.
The Howard Association has organized.
with a sum of So, 900, for the relief of the sick
Capt. W. B Ferguson was elected President,
James A. Saunders, Secretary, and Capt. X.
W. Bowden, Treasurer
Two hundred persons, mostly prominent
tucu VI XNOTiOik anu fOrtSnOutn. anu their
families, left on Sunday in the steamer Georgia,
for Baltimore. .ae9N
On Thursday there were two cases of yellow
fever on board the U. s. receiving ship Penn
sylvania, and the patients were removed to a
vessel at anchor below Craney Island, where
all other cases occurring on the Pennsylvania
would be carried.
In the town Of Suffolk, $50 had been raised
and forwarded to Portsmouth for the relief OF
the sufferers.
The Norfolk Herald of Monday morning has
the following account of the progress of the
disease: a.
There was decline in the progress of the
prevailing disease during thei "a hours up to
Saturday, 2p. m. The deaths in the city from
yellow fever exclusively were only three
The new cases are greatly reduced in number
and are confined exclusively, we understand,
to positively manifest cases of yellow fever
other cases Of fever exist, but they were not
then within the category and were not report
ed. We understand it is the intention of the
Board Of Health, after to-day, to report none
but deaths, which is the only certain means
by which the progress Of the disease can he
correctly ascertained. 1t is very easy to OBJ
tain correct report of deaths but almost i'm
possible to state accurately the number of new
cases, as every case of fever does not prove it
sell 70 be yellow fever.
A correct list of deaths by yellow fever from
its commencement on the 10th July, has been
kept by physician, and up to Saturday the
number was fDezty, out Of about sixty cases
showing the mortality to have been only ole
in three. And it is for this that nearly one
half of our population have deserted their
homes, shut up their stores and caused a total
suspension of business for the next two-and-a-
half months!
By letter from Portsmouth, dated the 18th
instant, received this morning, we learn that
the rumored sickness and death by yellow fe-
YER of Mr.. William B. Collins is unfounded:
that he had been confined to the house few
days by sickness, (but not with the yellow
fever,) and that he is now convalescent and
attending to business. The substance of the
above is contained in letter from member of
the family to son of Mr. Collins now in this
city, and can be relied On. The death of Miss
Moseley Latimer is mentioned in the same
letter.
Letters from Portsmouth and Norfolk sneak
solemnly and touchingly of the ravages of tn
epidemic, and the suffering in conseq uence.
yet they complain bitterly of the exaggerated
accounts which are frequently published.