The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-22
THE PLAGUE.
FORTY-ONE VICTIMS OF YELLOW
FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS YES.
TERDAY.

DEATH roll. AT vICKSBURG TWELVE AND AT
MEMPHIS sIX-DEPREssTON or BUSINESS
AND SUFFERING AMONG THE PoOR-THE
EPIDEMIC At GRENADA THE MOST MALGG-
SAST EVER KSONS.
MEMPHIS, August oO.-Thc conditions to-
day present quite favorable, almost a
cheerful aspect. A marked decrease in the
death rate and the number new cases
leads Us 10 believe that the monster has
been throttlcd and that by the energetic
application OF industry and medical science
our health authorities have been successful
in checking the invasion of the dreadful dis
ease, which seems bent on the conquest and
dcsolaton OF the American continent.
While the medical gentlemen who have
stood by us in our calamity have done much
to accomplish these great results 1t Is gen
orally conceded that the deserton OF the in
ieCtcd district 10y those able to leave by rail
way andh steamers and the removal Of the
poor people 10 the camps, has done much
good. That part of the city which now, as
in 1878, seems the
ABIDtiG PLACE or POISON,
is really entirely deserted save by few
families who are compelled to remain and
take care Of their sick members and friends.
But train loads continue to be carried out
to the camps as rapidly as they can be
gathered together.
The fever troubles are no sooner paciticl
than We are forced to look upon the suf-
tcring staring Us in the face Nearly every
branch of industry has been closed, and the
working people, whose wages with the best
times are barely sufficient to care for their
families, are out OF employment, and nc
commodations from the retail dealers is out
Of the question. How they are to obtain
support or the way to make it is the Qucs-
ton without solution in the prospect
ahead. Hundreds OF white and colorcd
people are standing on the street corners
ready to turn hand to anything that may
offer, but there is nothing to do. 1t is
feared that
GENERALIZATION AND DESPERATION
will result from this hopeless condition OF
affairs. But our various relief committees
are receiving favorable responses to their
| petitions for aid, and may soon be able to
provide against this threatened trouble.
Absent citizens are contributing money
and provisions literally. Boston responds
to telegram from Mayor FIippin for AS
! sistance with contribution of $1,000,
while smaller sums have been givcn from
various other sources.
Leading medical gentlemen convcrScd
| with to-day assures your correspondent that
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it should not he considered that the fever
had been conquered entirely, 1t will re-
! main here as long as there is material to
feed it, and we may not hope for its entire
abatement until thermometers have marked
39 degrees above zero. They say the dis.
ease is
GRADUALLY SPREADING
in northeastcrly direction, with very little
deviation toward the southern portion OF
the city. But cases may occur in all part,
of the city, which can be prevented iron
spreading by the timely and liberal use O
proper disintectants They say also thai
the death rate will not be so great as ha
been thr case, as physicians and nurses hOv,
better control of the disease and the PEG
! Ii' NV NV ~ '''ll'l'N-lN 'NNl W tlllllt'
with fear. Eighteen new cases were re
ported at the board Of health in tine pas
twenty-tour hours, with SIX deaths. TIL,
weather is not so favorable tonight, and i
II rainy season sets in, we may expect ~
increase in both new cases and deaths.
The following is the death roll for til,
past "a hours;
Fanny LEVITT, aged % years.
Ben X. Kouns . years
Jack Long, II years.
Fanny Dessarr, % years,
Morris. Bloomfield, 30 years
Peter \. Tigh, "a years.
Three other deaths are reported, one %
dysentery, one neglect and one disease
brain. A Grenada refugee was taken witt
the fever at Holly Springs, Miss, to-day
VICKsBuRG.
VICRsBURG, Aug, Colts estimated that
! 200 cases Of yellow fever are under treat