The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-17
The Pestilence.

From memphis, OCTOBER 4: Inc GSmEnd
for nurses at the Howard Association head
quarters to-day has been in excess of the
supply. The present warm weather has
tended to favor the spreading of the fever,
and reports from interior towns give gloomy
accounts of the condition of affairs. Addi-
tioDal nurses were sent to Tusctimbis, Ala,
Moscow, Paris, Lagrange, Masons, Brown
vile, Tenn, and Garner. Miss. this
afternoon, asd sa; 9thesS w will aeeso be sent i
reported ii a critical condition.. with
but faint hopes of recovery. A. Y. Dod, a
well-known stationer, was taken down this
afternoon. The appeals for physicians from
adjacent towns, which have been responded
to, have left scarcity of medical men in
Memphis, and the demand fer their services
is increasing daily. The Board of Health
yellow fever during the past twentS-iott
hours ending at six o'clock tonight.
Undertakers report twenty-five .ad-
ditional a-aths occurring outside of
the city limits for the same period.
The stsai..ar sGhaa1hsss In the employ of
the United States Marine Hospital Service,
anchored in mid stream last night. Sur
geon Keyes, accompanied by DR.. Frank
Reilly, of Chicago, was on shore this morn
ing endeavoring to find such of the govern
ment officials as were left in the city. DR..
Keyes appeared perfectly serene. The
Chambers will leave this afternoon, con-
tinuing OH her Voyage Of hstGy.
No SUPPLIES were needed here. II. NJ.
Keyes, NJ. D., Frank w. Reilly, NJ. D.,
representatives to the Chicago Relief Com
mittee, were in the city this morning. They
went on down the river on the hospital sup.
ply boat Chambers, with medical aid and
other supplies for. points down the river.
There are thirty-hve cases in Hopeheld,
Arkansas, opposite Memphis. There were
three deaths reported yesterday. Mrs.
Leonard, Jerry Stack and James Guthrie.
Mrs. Blaloek has bad case and needs a
nufsS,
New Orleans, October Z: The mortuary
| report for the week ending Sunday six p.
M, show the total deaths, 503; yellow
fever, 223; other fevers so; deaths in
public institutions, 55; deaths certified by
Coroners, %. The Yellow Fever Commits,
sioners appointed by Surgeon General
| of New Orleans, Chairman, DIR. Jerome
Cochran, of Mobile, and Professor Ellerd
Howard, of Baltimore, met to-day In
the University Building. Df. Cochran
explained to the reporter the method oi
inquiry to be pursued. In addition to the
answers expected to be received from per
sons to whom circulars embracing every
possible question in regard to the origin
contagion, or infection, spread, effects
treatment, and results of yellow fever, tn,
| commission expects to gather an Immense
amount of testimony by investigating par
ticular cases, going from house to house
making inquiries of eonvalescents, thei
relatives and friends, examinin,
the sanitary condition of the foe
other ways attempting to clear up tn
ground, and reach some general principle
upon which respectable and axiomati
idea can be based. With this intent, tn
Commissioners spent the morning hours il
selecting from books furnished by tn
Board OF Health, the names of person
and places to be visited. No prominenc
is sought to be given to selected persons
Their names will therefore be withheld
from the public. The results of the visit
hereafter will be published in full. J
W. MaderS Secretary of the Peabody Al
. sociation, is convalescing. The report
! show continued spreading of the fever i
the Third and and Sixth districts, ever
member cf the families, in some cases. b,
/ ing prostrated, and those in af1uent circun
stances find difficulty in securing competeI
nurses. In the Fifth District, (AIgiers
there is no Improvement. Rev. Fatht
Kratz, of Manderyille, La, died there
, yellow fever. DIR. Kennedy, a volunte,
physician from Galveston, Texas, WI
taken down with the fever.
New Orleans, October 8: Sixty-thrt
deaths and two hundred and eighty-nir
a cases since Sunday noon. The fever has a
4 tackled the families of the most of the Sta
j officers, and business at the State-house
: virtually suspended. The situation is u
changed.
: On the outskirts of Chattanooga, on Il
d 8th, camp was established, and many pc
9 pie began moving out. Physicians al
q funds much needed.
At Vaudeville, La, Frank Goodbee W
. shot through thu heart and instantly kill
e by George Chevillan, in an altercati,
y growing out of discussion as to the pr
g priety of calling on the Howard ASSOCIATE,
|. for aid.
: A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gaze
> writes from New Orleans on the 9th
e October: Rainy, dirty weather, and d
/, of humiliation and prayer. The outloo
withal, evidences Of fever included, b
If been gloomy enough. An opening morni
" :. scene was sad in the extreme. A bereavs
" " mother and three sympathizing frien
H. passing along in an ordinary furnitu
a. car, in the center of the group
n, small white coffin, the whole funel
h; cortege of mothers darling. An exte
sive tramp in the rain and the mud throu
III the First and Second Districts, or Frent
G. towE, proper, showed the evideno
d. of the fever sad and terrible on every har
is Here are the districts of all in which
an cases are never reported. The French a
- Spanish creoles will persist in keeping tn
Nv yellow fever patients to themselves. Th
to send for doctor, as a rule, only to SO
er themselves the alternative of sending