Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-12

JoNEsBoRo, July Washington
county has been suffering from excite
@ ment on account of the general sickness
e Up to this time some three cases of bow
q el disorder have been reported, none o
i which have proved fatal. The one cast
q in JonesbOro, Miss Marks, from Greene
4 vile, is recovering. A few cases o
8 chOlera-morbus and cholera-infantum il
!. different portions of the county. There
d is a needless amount of excitement
many rum0rs-the conflicting opinion:
of practical physicians-persOns dieting
I themselves-all combine to make the
situation one Of peculiar interest. With
S the necessary precautions, there need be
no fears. A combination of causes may
! tend TO spread the disease. A little sick
ness and much excitement may prove
fatal in almost any case. The health OF
the county is as good as usual at this
season of the year. am glad to report
that in almost every neighborhood
cleanliness and prudence are icing Oo-
: served.
AT ST. LOUIS.
From the New York Worldl g
ST. L1UIs, July 3.-Precisely how
many cases of cholera there are at pres
ent in this city, or have already resulted
fatally, it is impossible to say. The
health officers refuse to give any inform
alton whatever, and have locked up the
death register, so that no one can say
VINO is dead or how he died. The press
is silent, since to call the epidemic seri-
Gus would be to court financial loss
Last fall, when smallpox broke out, one
paper ventured to work up the "sensa-
tion,n forced the health officer to produce
the books, the mayor to announce his
views, and generally scared the eOmmu-
nifty. The result was that the merchants
signed "round- -robinsn never to adver-
tise IN or subscribe for the paper, its
managers recsnted, discharged the city
staff, and declared that there was no
smallpox in the city. The result of this
greed on one side and cowardice on the
other was five hundred and thirty-one
deaths. In view of this state of affairs,
it is almost impossible to obtain news,
and decidedly dangerous to say it. This
much, however, is known: On Tuesday
there were six deaths by "Asiatie chol-
era" registered on the mortuary books
| On Monday three deaths were reported,
all the cases being unusually malignant
In East st. Louis, on Sunday, two fatal
cases occurred, and third was rumored
Within two weeks the deaths from
''chOlera- morbus'' have increased from
eight to twenty-five, and the total NOR
tality of last week showed an advance
over the week before of one hundred
deaths, or more than sixty per cent. As
to the sanitary condition of the city, bad
is the best that can be said. The sew
erage system should be good, with a
rapid river rolling at the very city's
doors and a steep incline leading thereto,
but is not. The same faults are notice.
able here as in New York. Errors in
construction and location, defective
joints, pestilential traps, all are found in
st. Louis in fatal abundance. Accord |
ing to an official statement, four
thousand houses in the city are
without sewer connections. The
street sweeping and scavenging are
imperfectly performed. More Veget- |
able matter is left here to decay in |
the streets and it decomposes more |
rapidly than in New York. There are |
yards" and dens, particularly in the |
colored quarter, which for filth aud over
crowding would compare with any eel /
lars or tenements in New York. Then
there is the large colored population. /
ignorant of sanitary precautfon and pc
culiarly susceptible to panic. 1t will. |
therefore, be seen that we cannot escape
an unusually severe season of sickness.
The peculiar vanity" of st. Louis,
however, is its system of wells. OF these
there are thirty-seven hundred or there
abOuts, all of which are impure, some
poisonous in the extreme. TWo-thlrds
of them are sunk through made soil and
the readers of the World know what
that means in an old city. The others
are almost as bad, for, thanks to care
less construction, they are tainted by
stagnant ponds or dripping sewers.
These are the sources whence so many
cases of cholera morbus arise. One in
stance will suffice: Drs Porter and
Kuhn, the attendant physicians, testify
that within the past ten days a well at
1907 State street has caused the death,
by cholera-mOrbus, of nine persons.
AT FLORENCE, ALABAMA.
From the Times-JournaI.
Our town has been, as usual, exempt !
from malarial diseases. The ''prevail- ,
ing disease" I" in its mildest form-chol-
arine-has attacked a few of our citi-
ze1s, but as yet without single fatal
result. 1t is found to be necessary to
abstain from vegetable food, and ex-
,essive eating of fruit for a few weeks.
Already the nights are cool, and, after a !,
ew days, all fear of the epidemic, even !
n its less dangerous phases, will be F,
gone.
MIR. Thomas Garter, lately a resident !
If our county, died between Courtland
md ROgersville, it is supposed with s
,hOlera, on Friday last. Mr.. Carter has
'een living lately at Birmingham, and {
vas on his way to his former home. '
lear Rogersville. He left the cars at '
jourtland, and attempted to walk home, s
,ut when a little over half way, became {
lex, and in three or four hours was '
lead. H- -. f
AT CHATTANOOGA. Q
rom the Chattanooga Times, lOth.l q
1t is reasonably probable that the {
holera is now over. Only five deaths !!
rom that cause have occurred here in l
he past forty-eight hours, and if the D
ecessary vigilance is not relaxed, we 5
elieve the scourge will pass away. But l
here is great danger that in the sudden d
elief from panic, those who have been T
wing prudently from fright, thinking q
be danger is over, will gorge themselves v
nth vegetables, or will indulge too free q
7 in cheering beverages, and then will L
ome a relapse. There is little danger II
! the use of any article of diet that a
erson ordinarily Telishes and digests, q,
ut to commence now TO greedily devour 81
egetables OF any kind, after abstinence 81
n week or more, would be dangerous, :
say the least, and perhaps fatal. %
LEBANON, TENN. fc
rom the Lebanon Herald, OF the 9Th cc
The cnolera still fingers, as though II
Dath to leave us. While it can scarcely az
e called epidemic, it is still here, and p
lanifests the fact of its presence by an II
ecasional sudden appearance in some ~
nexpected quarter, after days of ap- "
aren't absencJ. During two consecu- T"
We days of last week, for instance,
lere were no new cases, and eTybody O,
lid, "The cholera has gone.n But it II
ad not gone; and the fact that there d,
re six or eight cases under treatment n
lis morning. several of which are new, a
lows that the disease is sthi n
ere. We call the attention of those 81
ar citizens who are absent to the card W
gned by physicians, in this issue, and it
e urge upon them compliance with di
he advice therein contained. While ST
lose of us who have remained here dur Ii
Ig the whole time, have possibly be- to
,me acclimated, so to speak, to the 81
lolera atmosphere, and are compare ST
vely safe, those VINO have been gone, sh
our opinion, incur great risk by re- ts,
Irning at present to an atmosphere and
anner of living to which they have
zen totally unaccustomed for three or 81
ur weeks, They had better stay away
ltil our physicians advise them TO re- 1
I'm, which they promise TO do through
le columns of the Herald.
NONE AT KNOXVILLE. 81
rf
'om the Chroniele.l cl
We note with pleasure q greater de- oI
zee of confidence on the part of the "a "a
Iblic as TO our ability to @ stamp out" %
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