The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-07

money 1Or tne rellet OF the sufferers, anu u
great deal of hard work is being done in
their behalf.
THE FEVER SPREADS.
The latest dispatches show the rapid
spread of the yellow fever in New Orleans.
SOL cases yesterday and 81 deaths.
100 DEATHS AT MEMPHIS.
In Memphis it also is worse and the dis
ease is spreading. Over 100 deaths were
reported yesterday and 400 new cases.
THE DEATH ROLL.
The subioined statement shows the num-
ber of deaths from yellow fever i'll cities
principally visited by it, so far as reported
up to the present, the deaths among ref
ugees not being included: New Orleans,
1867; Memphis, 994; Vicksburg, 297; Gre
NADIA, Miss, 1856; Port Gibson, 55; Canton,
Miss, 81; Hickman, KY, "a; Greenville,
Miss, 81; Holly Springs, II; Baton Rouge,
La, Is. Total 3,120.
TERRIBLE RECORD AT vICKsBURG.
In Vicksburg the fever is terrible; 1888
new cases yesterday and 81 deaths.
REPORTS FROM VARIOUS POINTS.
Over 80 cases at Hickman, KY; go cases
to date and "a deaths.
Holly Springs is almost depopula!ed; only
600 persons there now; 80 cases of fever and
13 deaths the past 48 hours.
Grenada, Miss, reports only deaths and
6 new cases.
Canton Miss, reports 16 new cases for the
past "a hours.
Ocean Springs Miss, reports the pesti.
lence increasing.
REFUGEES AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept Eight hundred
Southern refugees have arrived in the last
twenty-four hours. The tales as told by
them of the terrible progress of the fever
are heart-rending in the extreme.
The city is full of strangers, but has
thrown open her gates to all who come
The Washington nurses all left here Thurs
day night. The women of the party seemed
less appalled, by the stories related by refu,
gees than their male companions.
REPORTS OF THE WEEK.
WASHINGTON, Sept An abstract of the
reports received at the office of the Surgeon
General of the U. s. NJ. H., for the past
week. under the National Quarantine Act,
is as follows: New Orleans, 1,732 cases, 52t
Deaths Port Eads, l death; Morgan City, IA
cases, deaths; Vicksburg, 181 deaths; Gre
NADIA, 96 new cases, 40 deaths; Canton, III
the past two weeks, 172 cases, % deaths
Ocean Springs, 10 cases, deaths; Holly
Springs, about lOU cases ana twenty-five
deaths; at Memphis, 500 deaths
Hickman, KY, altogether 60 cases and "a
deaths; Louisville, 25 new cases, 7 deaths
st. Louis, 8 deaths and 10 new cases at the
quarantine, all refugees but the steward,
who contracted the disease at the quaran
tine; Pascagonli, Miss, cases. Key West
cases and one death; Havana, "A deaths
Calcutta, latest report, 8 deaths from
cholera and 26 from smallpox
Bombay Al deaths from cholera; Madras, {
deaths from cholera.
No official reports could be obtained from
Port Gibson, Greenville and Brownsville
Tenn, where yellow fever is reported tc
exist.
Reports from other places indicate goot
health.
THE AIR IMPREGNATED WITH FEVER.
GRENADA, MISS, Sept. IA physician
here says; ''The air is impregnated witt
the odor of the fever. You can easily dis
tinguish it. There is popularity about i
which, once discovered, never can be mis-
taken do not remember any smell SINH
lar to it during the whole of my profes
sional life. 1t attaches itself to your cloth
ing, and of course makes all woolen good'
dangerous"