The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-03
Eealth Of the interior.

While the health of Nashville during the
past summer has been remarkably good, many
localities in the interior of the State have not
been thus signally favored. In a conversation
the other day with q gentleman from upper
East Tennessee, he informed US that the Elux
had carried off its scores in two or three coun-
ties, willie feyers had added largely to the
fearful list. From other parts of East themes
see we also have melancholy accounts OF the
extent Of disease aud death during the past
summer.
Some OF the interior counties of Middle Ten
nessee have been sorely afflicted, though upon
the whole, the Middle Division Of the State
has enjoyed better health than the Eastern.
The destroying angel lowered long over
Memphis, and melancholy are the traces it has
left. A large number of her best citizens have
fallen victims to the pestilence; and now that
it is passing away, a few Of her citizens, appa-
rently forgetful that the destroyer has left in
their midst its deep lines of sorrow, which
eternity only can eff&ce, have got into bitter
quarrel about the character, or rather name,
of the diesase, one party contending that it
was Yellow Fever, and the other that it was
no.. What finale to the pestilence!
But Memphis is not the only place in West
Tennessee that has suffered from sickness the
past season. A correspondent of the Memphis
Bulletin, in that paper of the 28th ult., who
had just returned from McNairy county, 70
miles East of Memphis, reports that an unu-
sual amount of sickness had prevailed there
He says:
sold citizens of that county, some of whom have
numbered % years residence there, say that there
has been sickness this season than during any
two years within their recollection. coBversed
with several Of the resident physicians who informed
me that the patients we're first attacked with pains
in the back and neck, generally followed by hard
chill ague, 10 which a high fever succeeded with
continual nausea, aud in instances the patient
would throw up black yonit After the cessation
Of the fever, drowsy, dull state Of the system fol-
lowed; aud the patients generally died in this state
in from to days from the time they were attacked
In one family in Purdy three persons were attack
ed on the same morning, all Of whom died. In
another family few miles from town, seven were
attacked, six of whom died before | left, and the
seventh thought to be in a very critical state
In most cases. however the fatality was moi so great
as in the two families mentioned. The physicians
there say that it is bilious cOngestive fever, and
think its appearance in its present malignant form,
is the result of the heavy rains, &c. One Of the
ply scians with whom | conversed told me that he
treated cases of that sort every year, though in
milder form. Some of the pPtents | forgot TO men.
ton, had yellowish appearance during their sick
ness, and most Of them, think, after death turned
yellow. learned while there, also, that several
bordering counties had suffered to considerable
extent with the same character Of disease, and that
its fatality was very great"
Upon the whole, there has, probably, been
a greater amount of sickness in Tennessee the |
present year than during any previous year,
and the mortality has been exceedingly great.
1t is TO be hoped that with the recent change |
in the weather, the diseases which have so
sOrely afflicted so many localities, have nearly |
or quite passed away, and that wonted health
has ere this been restored.