Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-06
BOARD OF HEALTH.
NO Case of YeIIOw-Fever I'm the City
mp to Last Night-But one Case
ut the Quarantine Station.
The Board OF Health Keeps no Secrets,
but will Announce Every Case of
YelIow-Fever Appearing,
which will be Pub
blished Daily.

The board of health held busir ess meet
ing yesterday. No case of yellow-fever had
| been reported up to last night, and none ex-
| listed in the city. The board has determined
| that publicity, instead of secrecy, shall be the
rule of the board as to cases of yellow-fever
appearing When yer case IS reported it
| will be promptly published in the daily pa
pers. The name of the person, the location,
and all other necessary facts will be duly pub
| ished The board of health will at once
take charge of the patient. The house and
| the locality will be at once isolated and prop
erly disinfected. Even the square wherein
| the case developed will be disinfected, and
people will be duly warned through the press
not to visit the locality, but to keep as far
away from it as possible. The health board
intends making a thorough and scientific
fight on everycas of ye'low-fever appearing,
and the board feels confident that such eff
forts will prove successful. Should the fever
break out In a virulent form, and threaten to
become an epidemic, the people will know it
they will be advised by The board of
health to leave the city, if able to dolso.
The readers of the APPEAL may rely on the
| fact that every case OF yellow-fever which is
discovered by the health board will be pub
llshed. No attempt at secrecy will be made,
but all publicity will be given. This should
effectually dispose of the tales circulated by
ing discovered in different portions of the
city. Madame Gossip will be checkmated for
once, and will be put down as d scandal
monger This course, now being pursued by
our efficient determined and scientific board
of health, is that pursued in all other cities
\ The only case that has yet appeared in our
city was that which developed on Thursday
| last, where the man William Warne was
sent from the hospital to the quarantine
grounds on Presidents Island. The facts of
that case are as follows: Last Thursday a
young man giving his name as William
| Warne, applied to the secretary s office for
| medicine, telling DR.. Brown that he had been
| having the chills. DIR. Brown questioned him
| as to where ne was from, and was told from
| the mouth of Red river" Warne said he
| was deck-hand on the steamer Maumele,
and was backed up in his statement by a
| companion, who was with him. DR.. Brown
| gave him some qulnlne and advised him to
go aboard of his steamer and not expose
| himself. That afternoon the companion who
| had been with Warne again came
| to DR.. Brown and SAID Warne was
| quite III and should be sent to the hospital.
| DR.. Brown replied that the hospital ambu
| lance had made Its last trip to the hospital
| for the day Gt was then past six o'clock, but
| but If he could get an express wagon to con-
| vey his friend to the hospital he would give
HIM permit. This, the companion prom
| ised to do, so DIR. Brown wrote an order for
| the ADMISSION OF Warne 10 our city hospital.
| The next morning CFriday) Warne himself
came to DR.. Browns office and told him ne
| had not been to the hospital, but desired to
| go there Immediately. He was quite i'll, had
a high fever, and had slept all night under
an old cotton shed, near the board of health
| Office. Transportation was at once furnished
him, and he was sent out to the hospital
| Late In the afternoon DR.. Thornton, the
physician in charge of the hospital, reported
| to DIR. Ersklne that he was suspicious of
| Warne, and thought he had the yellow-fever.
| He had questioned him and ascertained that
he came direct from New Orleans on the
steamer Golden Crown, and had
| come across the river from Hope
| field the Wednesday night previous.
| President Saunders, OF the board of health, is
| in daily communication by wire and mail
with the New Orleans board of health. The
| plan of disinfecting the city adopted and now
| being enforced IN vigorous manner In this
| city Is the same that is in force at New Or
| leans. AT present force OF one hundred
| men and thirty carts is at work cleansing
| the city. The police force is actively en-
| gagged examining premises and reporting all
| nuisances. Detectives have been employed
| on the different railroad lines to arrest all
| persons coming from infected districts and
| attempting to enter Memphis. The members
| of the fire department are at work with hose
and pipe, washing out alleys and street gut
| tiers. Steamboat captains and all others who
violate the orders of the board of health will
be arrested and fined fifty dollars-the extent
| of the law-and there is no such thing as
having these fines RENTED. 1t is the duty
of every physician, hotel keeper and
others to report at once any case
| of yellow-fever discovered by them
| The city is being placed in a good sanitary
| condition, and the health board feels conf
| dent that the yellow-fever can be kept out,
or, if few cases do make an appearance
that the disease will be stamped out without
| any trouble. All this should satisfy every
reasonable citizen. All should rely on the
published statements, and ignore the flying
| rumors set afoat by sensationalists, who al
| ways know and hear more than sensible peo-
pie. The APPEAL will keep its readers post
| ed daily on the subject, and every case of yell
| low-fever appearing will be duly published.