The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-07
MEMPHIS WORSE.
Upward Of a Hundred Deaths
Yesterday.
GRENADA BE TT E r..
Six Hundred and Nlnety-sx New Cases
in New Orleans.
REMOVING FEDERAL TROOPS.

RAPID SPREAD OF THE DISEASE IN THE Ores
CENT cITY-sIx HUNDRED AND NINETY-sI1
CASES YEsTERDAY--sIxr DEArHs-RE
VIEW OF THE FEVER Observation-Disclosures
NESS NOT ALWAYS A PREVENTIVE.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.]
New ORLEANS, Sept g, 1878.
The number OF reported for the pas
twenty four hours by the Board OF Health Is 2ss
against pol yesterday, an increase OF 49, Those re
ported by the Howard Association number 2s2
seainst I0S yesterday, increase OF ia. The mum
Der OF new reported by the Young Mems Chris
tan Association Is 1885, against So yesterday, an in
crease OF so. Total for the past twenty lou
hours, 322.
STRIKING DOWN THE NArivER
Among the deaths from yellow foyer reported to
day notice the names OF John Welsh, aged forty
seven years; Francis Scanlon. aged thirty-seveI
years. and Ida Lacquet, aged ,wentytnrse years al
natives OF New Orleans. This certainly looks strange
II TO be the general impression that the disease
has not yet reached It's height The month OF Sep
tember has always been fatal for fever cases in ou
Southern climate. and we cannot expect to see The
worst until this has passed.
SURVEY OF THE DISTRICTS.
detailed account OF the present condition OF this
city, taking ii by districts. Is as ioliows:-In the
FIRST district the fever has spread very generally and
in some places 1t has been extremely violent. The
neigh porhood near the corner OF Carondelet and
Euterpe streets bias been perfect plague spot Thia
portion OF the city Is high, dry and clean. II has
been fumigated, the streets psrricadsd and strewn
with shavings. :. Indeed, every preoaution has
been taken the safety OF the SICK, yet in
the short distance OF half square twenty cases
occurred, fourteen OF which terminated fatally.
sEcoND DISTRICT.
The population IN tho Second district 10 mostly
French creole but even here tho sickness has bee
unprecedented Instances are gwen OF fsmilcs which
have lived here for generations where the children
have suffered terribly. Or. Landry, OF this district
reports clad cleanliness been all powerful pre-
Veutive this district would have been spared the
ravages oil the disease"
DISTRICT
The Third district winch up TO the present time has
and with rapid spread OF the disease. Disnfectanis
seem TO have failed hers, cases recurring on the
came pr mises where both iumgati0n and cisin-
iectanis l. d been thoroughly employed
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Tho Fourth district, except IN some few localities
appears to have suffered less Than other portions OF
the city.
ALGIERs INFECTED
The Filth district tAlgers) has nad only few
mp he present time, but tncrc now be
creasing.
During the month OF August the Sixth district sui.
iercd but hitle. Recently, however. the disease has
spread. sui, the only Injected portion Of the district
OF any Qnence as Tar mahgnancy OF type and
successive Invasion OF neigh boring houses is con-
csrned, has been that In The vicinity OF the
corner OF General Taylor and ST. Charles streets.
rom Of he most beantiul paatiai residences OF
city, where all the appliances OF wealth abounded,
the fever started in this district, ana here. too
most untiripg efforts toward the Of the
lever germ by means OF carboic acid and sulphur
failed most signally.
sIxrY.oSK DEATHS ON FRIDAY
The number oil deaths ior the past twcnty-our
hours sxy-one, against eishty-six yesterday, de-
crease OF twenty-h The names OF the dead
folows:-
Frederick Pcix. Henry A. CJrbin
Robvrt II. hcDonald Mrs. Mary McClue.
lda Locquet. Bella Smith.
W. n. slarke Daniel Dirgen.
Emilia Marie KiefeE Il ward Paul Robelot.
Charles DubrIer Frederick b. Moxon.
A. Ella TnamO. EDWARD Stenc.
John f. Verges Frank n. Csrrere
Mrs. o. Josephine Currap. $. b. johnson.
Joseph Pcrnal. Joseph BaeL
Matthew Sanders. Mchael Williams.
Paul BaIanser. Anna A. Anten.
Fredsricka Bull. Jonn ID Jordan
James Young William II. Wiriz.
MARY Il. Regan. George W. Cover
william Matthew. Edgar q. LOnd,f.
Thomas U. Wilkinson. Thomas Mahoney.
Alice II. Cullen. GarrieI Saess
Anne OiKeee. Francois Nndeau
MINNIE Welsh, LOUIS Henri Hamonds X o.
Carrie Louis1 Jett.
Cecie Johnson Catalina Ferr,r
hugo Uhapsky. Mrs. Kaie Brown
Christian Pouharst Amos Patton
Rebecca Washington. Charles knoblock.
koss Klein. John q. 5cLrcvoE
PhiIomene higpon. henry Bcizer
Mareellne Miilet Mrs. Catharna vicha
Francls Scanlin. August Dutiin.
Maggie Wliiams
NEWS FROM HOLLY STRINGS
The Howard Association received the folowin az
despatch from Holly Springs Miss. -
with corps nurses all night Great constcrna
don aud exist, The town Is dtsorted go
ere eighty patients down. There have ocen thirteen
atone et Tor DUTY all down send three fourcooks
one druggist ana two more medical men. Am short o
having impoverished themselves 20 help Grenada. RI.
ar. sSc tsSu e S ss ' Sr Inn 70
letter UUUKkIER N, b.
The Howard Association also received telegram
from Ocean Springs, MISS, asking for nurses and
statipf that tho fever ID Increasing tncre The nurses
were forwarded MS requested
An APPEAL FOR CATHOLIC AID.
The following appeal IS maae:-
The Society 81 St. Vincent de Paul has been
whatever race creed or color and is oricSy
BY ecclesiastical authority In view OF the present ep
Areho,hop Of New orssns At appess 20 the charities o.
sssa may enecsualy assst poor anc
prphans during this areadial visit alton.
MI. kxKrAcgAs and TBosAs g. RArIER. Secretaries
FALSE IMPRESSIONS cogBECTED.
WASHINGTON, d. c., sept 9, 1875.
The following has been furnished Tor pnoliea
non:-
Some msrep presentations having 1ouDa their way
Into print IN regard 10 The relations Of the dneren
benevolent associations OF New Orleans with each
other, the undersigned, Representative In Congress
FROM the SAID city, deem II proper TO state 10 the
fellow citizens throughout the country VINO may "
disposed 10 contribute 10 the eei OF the sun srsrs
That the three reei assocat onsnamely, the Howsr,
Association. the Peabody subsistence Association
ana tue Young NeL's CbrIs tiaD Associaii o"--ar
ali com posed oi The best and most humane eiLzens
New Orleans, anu are working together IN pcrtec
harmony ContrDulions Of money may DO forwarded
TO either orgsnizaton with perfect assurance tna
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