The Portland daily press., 1873-10-13
YELLOW FEVER.


New YORK, Oct. ia special from Mem
phs says the situation there could hardly be
worse. Business is almost totally suspended.
Thousands have fled, many shutting up the
business houses and abandoning their dwell
hugs. The chief ravages of the disease are
confined to the portion of the city inhabited
chiefly by poor people.
There are many cases in South Memphis.
The disease has entered all poor families in the
infected district. Whole families lave died,
and for square on some streets there is not
house in which somebody is not sick or has
fallen victim. The money generously sent
from all quarters is being judicously used to
aid the sick and destitute and to bury the dead.
Often it happens that parents abandon their
sick children and children their parents
More Favorable Reports from Shreve.
port.
A Shreveport despatch says there are very
few new cases of fever reported. All the cases
taken down the last few days are doing WELL
and there are very few doubtful cases under
treatment, There is better feeling among the
survivors. Gloom prevails in the outskirts, but
hopes are entertained that the worst has been
seen.
At Montgomery.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. 11-There were
three deaths from yellow fever here in twenty
four hours. The deaths to-day and Friday were
| old cases and attributed to cold.
Another Account
MEMPHIS, Oct. 11.-There is no apparent
abatement of the yellow fever here. On the
contrary, the number of new cases reported
daily, which occur in every part of the city,
gives evidence that it is on the increase.
Inc doctors say the recent frost has had a
beneficial effect that will soon develope but as
yet the mortuary lists are alarming.
The Relief Committee are daily in receipt of
liberal contributions from every part of the
country and are busily engaged in properly dis
pensing aid to the afflicted and distressed.
The demand for nurses is greater than the
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drawn upon and are supplying additional de-
tails. The disease is not confined to any par
ticular locality, although the original seat of the
plague Happy Hollow is carefully avoided
and is being thoroughly overhauled and disin-
fected. The Howard, Citizens Relief, the Odd
Fellows, the Masons', the Germans, and all
other relief associations, are actively engaged
In the work OF administering to the sick and
providing for the distressed, the chief and most
difficult part of their task being to provide
temporary homes for great number of help
less children, made orphans by the terrible raw
ages of the fever. AS yet all have been pro-
vided for to limited extent but as each day
increases the number, the means at hand are
necessarily dimdished and what the result will
be in another week is beyond present calcula-
ton.
The Masons of Memphis are in financial dis
tress on account of the heavy expenses they
have incurred during the epidemic. They have
buried twenty of their number in the last two
weeks and have now on hand fifty-two cases.
Their expenses are over $500 a day. They
have received remittances from few other
cities, but not sufficient to meet necessities
Lodges and Masons can remit to A. j. Wheeler,
Secretary of the Masonic Relief Board
Large gangs Of laborers were in the street to-
day with brooms. Scrapers, Shovels and carts
and as far as they progressed the strrets look
clean, but smell of disnfection.
SHREVEPORT, Oct 12.-There were twelve
interments of yellow fever to-day.
MEMPHIS. Oct. PA slight abatement of
the disease is manifest, as but few new cases
are reported by the various committees, and but
fifty-nne death fran all causes.