The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-22
SURGEON GENERALS REPORT,
Progress Of the Epidemic to Sep.
tember 10.

OFFICE SURGEON GENERAL, u. s. NJ. IL. s.,
WAsHINGroN, Sept. II, 1873.
Following is an abstract of sanitary reports
received during the past week under the nation
a. quarantine act, 80 wa "
MISUNDERSTANDING the week ended septem-
Der 18th there We're 6S1 deaths from yellow fe-
yer. II is impossible for the Memphis author
tiles TO ascertain the number Of cases,
Brownsville, Tenn Tho nrst ease of pro-
bablp yellow fever occurred on the 18th Of
August, resulting In death Septcmber2d I'd, since
which time there have been nine deaths from
yellow fever. There were 20 cases under
of the population fed the city between the LIST
and ith Inst.
Holly springs--ono hundred and sixteen
new cases OF yellow fever and a deaths oc-
Cured dnriDg the week ended yesterday even
Ing, making IN w 2l0 eases and u deaths. All
OF shS rSsiaen! ph}ssSSns sre sick *, on
week ended yesterday evening. First case
August !. Total cases, $40; total deaths, 80.
Port Gibson, Miss. -Dr.. Wharton, OF Mis-
cases % yellow fever and ~ deaths % yester-
day noon, and very few subjects len 10 take
it.h
Water Valley, Mis-. One citizen taken with
yellow fever sept, LIST, and died on the It'll.
No other cases to yesterday evening since the
Ocean Springs, Miss sixteen cases of vel
low fever and deaths occurred during the
week ended yesterday evening, making "a
cases and deaths In all since commencement,
August 80,
Sept. . there were 10 cases OF yellow fever and
Lay st. louis, Miss.-six cases Of yellow
fever developed In bay st, Louis during the
last week; two deaths, No new cases yester-
day.
Pascagoula, Miss.-One Of the cases preyi-
ously reported has since died. No new cases
New Orleans, During the week ended yes
terdny noon there were l52S cases OF yellow
fever and $50 deaths, mai Ing IN all Gla cases
and los deaths. In tho last u hours, 70 Fri
day noon, there were 22s cases aud ~ deaths,
Plaquernine, La,-l75 cases of yellow fever
and 81 deaths had occurred up 10 Sept. &.
Morgan city, La. There have been % cases
Of yellow fever and deaths, of which cases
and 2 deaths occurred during the past week
Port Eads, A,-No, phses and no igalhs
from yellow fever during last week. fliere
wers II cases and deaths from August 10 TO
9l,gerlod not previous y reported-makingin
Moble,-0ne death from yellow leyer, oc-
Cured on tho 9Th inst No other cases TO last
81. louis .EDuring tho week there were
cases, of local origin, said by some 10 BIO vel
low fever, disputed by othersi one died, the
other was sent To quarantine hospital, where
y refugees dledOf yellow fcNer during TIE same
Cairo;-The editor of the Cairo Bulletin died
of yellow fever on the 18th inst. One employe
Of the bulletin oliee died yesterday. NO
Of family residing two miles nom Cairo
upon the bank OF the Mississippi were sudden
~ stricken with yellow fever. On the 10th
the remaining two members Of the family were
attacked; one died The children found an
abandoned skin In the river and removed II 70
the house for repair. Three or four days at
te?ward all who were around the boat were
stricken with fever In one day. The quaran-
tine physician dissents from the diagnosis of
the attending and consulting physicians.
Hickman, ky.-The telegraph operator re-
nj Information
! Louisylllo.--There were 10 new cases Of yell
| low fever and deaths for the week ended yes
| terlay evening-all refugees:
lincinnati--From sept 18th to yesterday
\ evening there were cases of yellow fever and
| 4 deaths. All of whom were recently from
infected places South
GALLIPoLIs, ONO. There have been TWEEN
ty-1ye cases Of yellow fever aud nine deaths,
| resulting from communication with the steam
| boat John D. Porter and her barges, while
anchored near Gallipolis This vessel and
| her Injected barges assembled the Mississippi
| and Ohio rivers from New Orleans to Gallipo-
| lis with effect much like ilrebrand among ex-
plosiyes. The local health authorities could
only prevent her landing, and the law forbids
| this Office interfering in such cases. .
Key west--one case Of yellow fever and
| one death during the past week. ''f' "'
| Kingston, Jamaica, sept 3.A-A few cases OF
yellow fever have occurred at Port ROYAL, six
miles from Kingston, one proved iatal ms
steamship Etnq, from Hayti arrived ~ King;
sten on the LIST Inst WIN ihe pnrsner sick oil
Calcutta There were II deaths from ehol-
era aud 20 from smallpox during the week
ended July 18th.
bombay Twenty two deaths from cholera
| and from smallpox, week ended July sd
Havana.--fifty- deaths IRON, yellow
fever and from smallpox during the week
ended September Ith.
During the week ended August 2ith there
| were "a deaths from scarlet fever IN Berming-
ham, England, and the same number In Liy-
| erp0ol aud London. In Hamburg there Were
| 81 deaths from typhus fever, II from enteric
fever, and 20 from diptheria In the SAINT
| week.
| In Alexandria, Egypt, the ANIMAL rate oil
mortality per 1000 Of the population, based on
the weekly mortality for the week ended Au'
| gust sth, was hs.s.
No Official reports conld be obtained mon
vicksburg, Grenada, Baton Rouge, Bolton
| etc. -,
health JoiIN NJ. WoopMonTu,
| gu,.,,ann Et.nprul III. =. nj. H. y