The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-28
YELLOW FEVER.

Prior to the Sth inst. the chlls and fever,
bilious, congcstivc and malarial fevers pre-
vailed throughout the city, and indeed
throughout the Mississippi and Arkansas
river bottom countries between here and
Vicksburg. The tendency of these fevers
was toward the malignant point, and the
cases were difficult to overcome, not yield
ing readilyto medical treatment. The yell
low fever, malarial fever, or pernicious fe-
yer had already broke out in New Orleans
and suspicious cases of sickness were dis
covered on board steamboats, running from
New Orleans up the Mississippi to st. Louis
and other points north. About the 9th inst
white man, sick, landed here from the
steamer John B. Maude, boat belonging
to the Memphis and st. Louis Anchor Line
Packet Company.
THE FIRT CASES.
This man was conveyed to the city hos
pital and next morning was reported to the
board of health by the hospital physician,
DR.. j. b. Thornton, as a suspicious case
with symptoms of yellow fever. That day
he was removed to the quarantine yellow
fever hospital, which had been established
at the foot of Presidents island, which is
four miles below the city, the hospital be-
ing at the southern part of the island, ten
miles south of the city. In a day or two
the case was pronounced yellow fever by
DR.. Lawrence, the officer in charge of the
quarantine hospital and grounds. Two or
three days thereafter white man got off the
steamer Golden Crown, from New Orleans,
breaking the blockade which had been estab-
lished, and managed to enter the city. He
was taken sick and was discovered by the
health officer, DR.. Erskine, at his boarding
house Charleston house, near the Charles
ton railroad depot, near the center of the
city. This man was at once summoned to
the quarantine hospital, his bedding was
taken out and burned, and the room, build
ing and locality thoroughly disinfected
with carbolic acid, A strict quarantine
had then been established against persons
and goods coming from New Orleans,
Vicksburg and the entire infected district
South. The fever had by this time broken
out at Grenada, Miss, 100 miles south of
this point at the junction of the old Missis
sippi Central New Orleans, St. Louis and
Chicago railroad) with the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad.
HOW GRENADA WAS ATTACKED.
At Grenada quite number of people
from New orleans were travel-bound owing
to the quarantine established here. These
New Orleans people became sick at Gre
NADIA, and soon that city, numbering about
$500 inhabitants, whites and blacks, he.
came infected and the fever ragged there at
once. The quarantine established at Mem
phis became Intellectual. People could slip
into town from the infected districts south
by way of the Mississippi and Tennessee
Railroad, by way of the New Orleans, st.
Louis and Chicago Railroad, which form,
a junction with the Charleston Railroad at
Grand junction, and again by way of the
Louisville Railroad, which forms aiunction
with the southern roads at HUMBOLDT and
Tilon. From New Orleans boats passen
engers got off ten and twenty miles above
this point, and employing fishermen, ran
the blockade at night in skitfs. the fisher
men using mutiled oars and landing their
passengers in the southern portion Of the
city, The numerous dirt roads leading
from the city were impossible to guard, and
over them people from the infected dis
tricts south came to Memphis. This at
once proved that quarantining an inland
city was somewhat Of humbug. The
only advantage that resulted was the feel
ing of security which the quarantine estab-
lished in the minds of the citizens of our
city.
EFFORTS AT DIsINFECrIoS.
On Monday morning, the 18th inst, Mrs
b. Blonda, keeper of an Italian snack and
eating house at No. 2l2 Front street, died
of yellow fever. The house and locality
were at once taken in charge by Health
Officer DR.. Erskinc, the dead woman was
inferred within few hours, the bedding
was burned, the building, sidewalks alleys
and streets adjacent were drenched with
carbolic acid and barricade was erected
around the block so MS to isolate the local..
ty as much as possible. Mrs. Blonda's
snack house is located on Front street. one
hundred yards from the upper steamboat
landing and in the center of the city Her
snack house was lrequented by steamboat
men, roustabouts from the landing, etc
On the Tuesday following the fever broke
out on Alabama street, half mile northeas.
of this point and near the Bayou Gayoso.
THE INFECTED DISTRICT.
To understand the latter locality the fol-
lowing brief description is necessary.
Memphis extends some two miles along the
Mississippi river from the mouth of (old
Nesluba) Wolf river To Fort Pickering.