Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-04
Yellow Fever.

The yellow fever scourge which is just
now devasting the South continues una
bated. A dispatch from New Orleans dated
the I'd, says :" New cases to-day, one hundred
uinety-fve; deaths, seventy-seve The deaths
yesterday include twenty children under
seven years, and today nineteen. The fever
is encroaching upon localities hitherto meas
urably exempt. IL is believed the worst has
not yet come. The condition of the streets
is better than for years, but the high, we'll
Trained districts seem 10 suffer more than
'ortions not so well favored.
"a dispatch from Baton Rouge reports
Ieven deaths from yellow fever there, four
u the last twenty-four hours. Many are
lown sick, and business is stopped. The
city's financial resources are insufficient to
lieve the Distress and appeals are made to
lie country TO aid them. From noon to six
clock p. NJ, twenty deaths were reported to
Tie board of health. The deaths from fever
Ia date number one thousand and ninety
one, including four hundred and sixty-one
children under eleven years of age"
The Memphis board of health records
slow eighty.four new cases and fifty-three
deaths for the twenty-four hours ending at
,ix o'clock p. NJ. on the I'd instant. The
.lw-mill and lumber dealers having closed,
it is thought the mayor will press all lumber
found, to be converted into collins for the
pauper dead. The impression prevails that
ii the whites in Memphis will be attacked
II fever makes as great draft on the working
organizations during the coming ten days as
il has the past ten days, nobody will be left
Ia direct the efforts of nurses and the distri
bution of supplies. Doctors, nurses, under.
i.kers, and even grave-diggers, are broken
down. 1t is common occurrence for two
or three dead bodies to be found in the
same house. Applicants for relief increase
laily 1t is becoming difficult to maintain
order among the mob at the relief office, and
supplies are nearly exhausted. Great diff
Guilty is experienced in getting carpenters to
make collins for the pauper dead and men
to dig graves, but so far all the dead have
h en- buried promptly, except in cases where
persons died unattended and the corpses
were only discovered through the efforts Of
tue health officers, as has been the case in
several instances.
The situation at Grenada is fearful to con
t mplate. Whole families have been wiped
ont by the scourge, and there is almost a
scarcity of medical aid-the attending ply
scians being worn out with their efforts tc
save life. Generous contributions have beer
made throughout the country for the relief
of the sufferers, and many persons are
volunteering to go as nurses. Where this
rrble scourge will end it is hard to tell.
At Port Gibson, September 81, four hun
d ed cases and fifty-fve deaths are reported
ut of five hundred aud fifty persons remain
ug in town. About twelve hundred hav,
Il d. The distress is very great. The SICK
IRE dying, with no one to give them a drink
water. Some nurses are on the way tC
New Orleans from Chicago. Help and fund,
IRE needed.
At Greenvile, north of Vicksburg, til,
wn is panic-stricken. Twenty cases o.
yer are reported, although it was strict,
liarantined, with every road guarded nigh
nd day.