The Van Buren press., 1878-08-20
YELLOW FEN ER.
Increase of yellow Fever il Menu
pliis.

A Memphis, Tenn, dispatch of Aug.
II, says:
The fever seems TO be gaining ground,
and the Board Of health will probably
pronounce it epidemic during the next
twcnty-four hours. LIS origin has been
traced to persons who came up from be-
/ low on the steamer Galdon Crown, and
ran the quarantine blockade two weeks
ago to-day. One person who came up
on the boat has died and several more
are down with the fever. Prof. Decker,
living next door to the parties that came
up on the boat, was taken Sunday, and
died, last night. His son is down with
it. Gen. Bergman, a prominent tobac-
conist, was taken the first OF the week,
and will probably die tonight. The fe-
yer seems to be well spread all north of
Jefferson street, rs near rs L can learn.
| Up to the present time there have been
five deaths and seventeen cases reported
in the last torty.eight hours
Physicians are advising all to leave
| that can, and the trains in all directions,
are loaded down.
Two cases are reported at Grand juno
ton, on the Charleston road. Horny
Mynott, telegraph operator, living in
the infected part of the city was taken
down with the fever, this afternoon.
The following has been received by the
Associated Press, here
GRENADA, MISS, Aug. l4.-Owing to
the sickness of huWayor and Council
men, the undersigned have been appoin-
ted by the citizens of Grenada, at gen.
eral meeting, to receive and distribute
whatever pecuniary aid can be obtained
for those suffering from yellow fever in
Grenada. The disease is here in its most
malignant form, and the sick are so nu.
merous and destitute as to make it utter
y impossible for Grenada, unassisted, to
relieve or move them. The assistance of
the charitable is respectfully solicited,
and the press are asked to copy this dis
patch generally. (Signed,)
Robert Mullon, r. S. Ringgold, NJ. D.,
Health Officer, and Thomas WaIdron.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 15.-Ot the deaths
reported, to-day. were children under
five years, l was eight, l was fourteen,
and another child, age not given. The
Times editorally says the same remark
able features that characterized the fo-
yer, in its incipiency, continue to char
aetcrlze 1t now, In what may be regarded
as its matured and developed form Ful-
ly 70 per cent. of the deaths are foreign
ers or unacclmated people, and fully IS
per cent. of the remainder are children.
1t is very rarely that we notice the death
OF an adult born here, or who had lived
here any lenRth of time, and of whom it
can be said that he or she received oven
moderate attention. Instances of this
sort constitute exceptions to a very mar
ked general rule, indeed. Leaving out
strangers and those persons whose hab-
its Of life render them especially liable
j to malarial influences, the sickness seems
to be devoting itself especially to chill
dren and the fact that, as the time goes
on this feature becomes more conspieu-
Gus, justifcs the theory that the fever
may be looked upon as having declared
itself 1t is true that great many ma
tive adults haYe been afflicted, but the at
tack, in nearly every instance, has been
! light and rnanAnaalllo, aud hut far tha
scare, would hardly have excited com
ment. So far, it is distinctly the chill
dren's year.
MEMPHIS, August lG.-Eleven new ca
ses and four deaths i'll the past twenty
four hours. The city has abolished
quarantine, and people are leaving for
the country by hundreds.
The fever is assuming a mildor form,
and ply siciaus are moro hopeful.