The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-09-14
THE YELLOW FEVER.
no ABATEMENT OF THE DISEASE.

On Monday the report of the death.
and progress Of the disease was published
1t says at New Orleans during the week
there were 1872 new cases and 526 deaths
making total since the commencement
of the disease of 4,609 cases and 1895
deaths. At Port Eads during the week
no new cases and only one death. Al
Morgan City, La, IA cases and deaths
total, y eases aud deaths. At Vicks-
burg, ISL deaths; total 366 deaths and
about $500 cases. At Grenada, SO cases
and 40 deaths. AT Canton, in the last
two weeks, 172 cases and % deaths; total,
1870 cases and 30 deaths Ocean Springs,
Is cases and deaths At Holly Springs,
the total is 100 cases and % deaths. AT
Memphis for the week, 500 deaths; total
for two weeks, no deaths At Hickman,
KY, the total is go cases aud "a deaths.
At Louisville, 25 cases and Z deaths. AZ
St. Louis, 3 deaths, two being refugees
and a nurse who attended the patients at
quarantine. At Key West, cases and
death. This record shows a total NOR.
tally at the places named during the
week of 1916 deaths, with no report from
Port Gibson, Greenyille, Brownsville and
other points where the fever exists. The
Right Rev. Bishop Elder was still alive at
Vieksburg on Saturday, though in a very
critical condition, his case, which was
originally mild form, having suddenly as
sumed alarming symptoms. At Canton,
Miss, Il new cases, 3 deaths; at Lake
Station, Miss, 40 cases are reported, and
10 cases at Bolton. The refugees are tax
ing the fever to the surrounding country.
In one house seven miles southeast OF
Canton there are IL cases. The wife of
Secretary Southmayd, of the New Orleans
Howard Association, with five children,
are all sick. At Plaquemine, La, there
have been q deaths. There were 232
new cases at New Orleans on Saturday
and II deaths. On Sunday the deaths
were 81 and new cases 223. A man sick
with the yellow fever occurred yesterday
on board the steamship Hutchinson at the
New York quarantine. The vessel is from
Morgan City, Louisiana Sunday added
nearly 100 deaths TO the mortality at
Memphis. There are 5000 sick in the
city. The Howard Association have 40
physicians, and 8 have died. There is
only one hotel open, and all the provision
stores have closed. Only two drug stores
were open yesterday, but the Towards in
tend to open those that have closed and
place prescription clerks in them. The
new cases yesterday were over 300. Four
members of the Howard Association have
died during the past week. DIR. McKim,
a volunteer physician Of St. Louis, is dead
and Miss Emma Reed, a volunteer nurse
from Cincinnati, is among the sick. There
are 81 cases at the st. Louis quarantine,
and one was admitted yesterday at Gin
cinnati. They were all refugees.
An appeal has been issued by Congress-
man Ellis and Gibson, of Louisiana, Sen
ator Morgan, Of Alabama, Hon. w. r..
McArdle, of Mississippi, and Mr.. Cyrus
Bussey, President Of the Chamber of
Commerce of New Orleans. for further
help to the sufferers from the fever and to
those who are reduced to want BY the sus-
pension of business They say:
II IS cStimateu that IN the suspension OF
business on the Mississippi river, south of Mem
phis, over so steamboats, are tied up, their
crews discharged, and the 'longshoremen and
gangs Of stevedores and other laborers who
were engaged in the receiving and discharg
ing OF freight, are out Of employment. -Four
great lines of railroads are paralyzed. and
their employees are idle. Nearly every place
of business in the cities and towns where the
fever prevails is closed, and their employees
discharged. These employees are poor and
dependent upon their labor for support. 1t
is estimated that OF these unemployed men
there are IN New Orleans 1900, Memphis
5000, Vicksburg 1000, and in smaller towns
1000, making total Of $1,000 discharged
workmen, most of whom are the heads of
families and represent a total population of
not less than 100000 in actual and desolate
want. These people have no means to get
away from the pest-riddeu cities. For them
there is no labor, no wages, no bread, moth
ing but death and starvation, and this condi
ton must last at least for SO days, for there
will be no stay of the pestilence, no resumption
of business until frost. Averaging the sup
port of each individual at 20 cents per day,
which is 10 cents less than the cost OF an army
ration, for so days the support Of the suffer
ing and destitute viii cost 81, 080, 900, and
this for subsistence alone. Nothing for med
iciEes, clothing and proper sustenance for
the sick and the burial of the dead has been
taken into account in this calculation