The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-10-16
yellow Fever.
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yellow Fever.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 3-To-day's
yellow fever reports show 81 deaths
and Ill new cases. Fooiings to
date are 9,9l3 cases aud 3 006 deaths.
The weather is clear and pleasant.
Many thousand persons who have re-
turned from the lake shore watering
places are being prostratsd almost as
fast as they arrive. A perfect psaic
prevails. la the opinion of Nell-in-
formed observers, The iulax has re-
stored the epidemic to lis former
status Over 500 are proetrated in
Carrollton. and as many mere in
Gretna aud Algiers.
The %l,alian refugees who two
months ago, ia terror Of the fever,
encamped at Camp Parapet, are also
returning, and many have recently
sickeped.
At the Board Of Health it was an
uounced that the fever is increasing
and will increase 50 long as absent
ees from any locality flock iato the
city.
The death list for the "a hours end
ing at II o'clock to-day includes IS
children under I years of age.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 3-Applica-
tons for relief to the Young Mems
Christian Association, 1903 Howards,
800.
From noon TO G p. NJ, ID deaths
and lS7 cases were reported, of
which ITO date since Sept. 80.
Among the deaths today, is j. j.
lrby, a prominent merchant. The
sou died about two weeks ago, and
Mrs. Irby died this morning.
A. Campbell, telegraph operator
at Canton, died on Wednesday. and
Clark Harvey, who went from Brook
haven to take the place Of the sick
operator at Tangipahoa, died there
last night.
G. L. Raroul, operator at Osyka,
is very low. F. w. Cuisine, opera
tor here, was taken with fever last
night. All Of them are doing we'll
here except Fitzsimmons, whose con
dition is considered critical.
REPORTS FROM OTHER POINTS.
Reports from Mississippi show the
continued increase of yellow fever.
The disease seems to be spreading
through Hines county. There are
Is or 20 cases at Delta, Louisiana
1t has also appeared at Meridian,
Miss. There were eight deaths at
Vicksburg yesterday, six whites and
two colored persons. At Holly
Springs, Miss, twenty-six new cases
and nine deaths yesterday.
At Chattanooga, DR.. Vandeman
reports the death of Mrs. Della Gram
dali, Daniel McMilleD, W. T. Good
win and John Parker (~colored). Ten
new cases. The disease seems to be
on the increase. A strong northerly
wind all day gives hope that it will
soon diminish. There is no spread
cut of its old quarters.
AT Baton Rouge, there were 10
deaths from yellow fever on Thurs
day night. There is a large increase
of new cases. l.. Jadat, a promi-
nent member of the Towards, was
taken sick last night. We are hav-
ing July weather. If it continues
We fear tue consequences.
The fever is spreading at jackson,
Miss. One death yesterday and a
case Of black vomit to-iay. Ten or
fifteen cases under treatment The
indications are that it will be declsr-
ed epidemic in a day or two.
At Greenviile, Miss the deaths to
date have been 260; number now
sick, 1l2 convalescent, 65I; num-
Der still left to have the disease, 1923;
new cases to-day, % deaths in past
"a hours, 6.
At 0spka, Miss, seven new cases
in the last "a hours, u death and ,
with black vomit.
At Thibodeaux, La there were l6
new cases, but no deaths. A great
number of the cases are mslarial, and
not yellow fever.
Reports from Hickman, Ky, up TO
noon yesterday give ten new cases
of yellow fever and six deaths. Tel
egrsph operator Pollard is quite
low.
At L4fourche Crossing, Ssven cas-
es in the Lefort family; two of them
dangerously i'll. Three new cases
since last report. No deaths.
At Bay st Louis, Eighteen new
cases and 3 deaths.
There were two well defined cases
of yellow fever at Mer;deu, Miss
yesterday.
At Biloxi, Miss, there were 20 new
cases, but no deaths.
At Tangipahca, two deaths and 6
new cases.
A new Orleans physician. 10 a pri-
vate letter, writes US that be follows
the old treatment in yellow fever,
and has had over a hundred cases,
with only sixteen deaths. Two of
the latter were walking cases."
The term is q technical one, under
stood in yellow fever districts. A
walking case is a patient who refuses
to go to bed, and keeps bis feet IN
til he drops dead. Sometimes he re-
fuses to admit be has yellow fever;
sometimes be realizes be has the
dread disease, and despairs of recov-
cry from the start. Sometimes the
walking case manifests the most ab-
ject fear, and again be displays the
courage and indifference of a spy led
out TO execution. Sometimes the
walking is confined to patients cham
Der, and then again be roams the
streets, with the seal of death on his
brow, the dreadful back vomit ooz-
ing from his liDs-an object of lor-