The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-08-31
Up to Thursday there had been in all 1871

I l. w 'iiNiN ii''N' iva 80 '''' ''' :
cases and 1876 deaths
The physicians seem pOsed-the disease is
so different and more malignant than usual,
and attacks both old and acClimated residents
and negroes, who formerly almost wholly cs-
capped OF course the most frlghtful scenes of
suffering and dcsttutlon abound. Often whole
families are taken down and die with no one
to look after them. Too poor to hire nurses or
procure medicine or food, hundreds die from
sheer poverty and neglect The Howard As.
ISOLATION with its army of heroes is every
where present and active, but cases by the
score occur daily which they reach too late.
Amid the gloom IN New Orleans one ray of
light appears. On Wednesday DR.. Samuel
Chopin met case that had been sick and
without medical attendance for "a hours, his
temperature 1855 degrees and pulse 100 a
minute To all appearance he was dying He
was stripped naked and sprinkled with ice
water until his temperature was reduced to 9S
degrees and his pulse to g. The body was
then covered with sheet, the fever disappear
Cu anu tHC pdtlCut lHlo SCuiIt
Next day he was doing well with all the symp-
toms favorable to a speedy recovery. If the
same treatment acts rs well in other cases,
there is hope of conquering the disease.
MEMPHIS suffers next to New Orleans The
same gloom, restitution, neglect and harrow
ing cases there as in Now Orleans, and the
same steady increase of the scourge; 45 cases
and - deaths on the oath; 80 cases and IA
deaths on the 2Sth; and so on steadily up to %
new cases an 70 deaths in the 18th. Yet the
city is almost deserted by the whites, many ne
grocs being among the sufferers. Fathers flee
to the north deserving their families and chill
drcn fly deserving their sick parents, and waits
children parentess and homeless grow dali
ly more numerous. But for the noble How.
ards, the suffering would be beyond all com
putation or conception
AT GRENADA the deaths continue from 9 to
u day, about half Of them negroes, though
less than 100 of the white population arc left
Memphis, New Orleans, &c, keep the town
supplied with nurses and the north sends
enough provisions, but the people are actually
suffering for food because there Is nobody TO
cook il.
N1CKsBURG is suffering about equally with
Memphis, with the same narrowing scenes Of
"msery, dcstitution and desertion. From II
new cases and - deaths on the oath the in
crease has been steady to 125 cases and "a
deaths on the 2Sth
CANTON, Miss, was attacked with a fury
equalled only by Grenada OF its $500 people
all the whites but 70 fled during the first week,
and of the 40 cases on the 28th most were ne
grocs. Thus far not a case had recovered
Port Gibson, Holly Springs, Plaqucmine,
Bayou DIES Almo, and other interior towns in
Mississippi and Louisiana, are as badly afilict-
ed in proportion to size as New Orleans itself,
with no abatement of the disease.
Cases continue to occur at Nashville, LOUIS
VILE Cincinnati, st. Louis, Philadelphia, &c,
but they are all refugees from the south and
being hurried off to hospitals rs soon as dis
covered, there Is thus far no indication or fear
of an outbreak north of Memphis, and thus
far also the gulf and south Atlantic coast have
happily escaped. The fever, however, has still
six or eight weeks to run, and who can under
take to fix its bounds for all that time?