Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-11
YELLOW FEVER.
NO RELIEF FROM DEATH.

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Mems Relief Association telegraphs for
aid: also the homeopathic fraternity.
The Peabody Subsistence Association
telegraphs as follows:
To the People Of the United States: .-.-
Inasmuch as the Peabody subsistence
association is beginning to receive lib
eral donations from abroad, we deem it
not inappropriate that we should state
to the country the nature and extent of
distress which has called into existence,
as we'll as disposition, its making of
means rendered by a generous and
charitable public. New Orleans is sink
ing under the weight of bad epide
mic, has four week been surrounded by
a Gordon of guarantees, wnioh
have effectually cut off from all inter
course with adjacent and tributary
country; her business is stifed; her in
dustries paralyzed, and large classes of
her people, who are dependent on their
labor for daily bread, have been driven
out Of employment and are without the
plainest necessities Of life. To many Of
these destitute homes have been added
the power of the fever; disease and
want has met, and the intensities of hui
man misery are illustrated with grim
and CHASTITY effect by the presence Of
this awful visitation. 1t will be i'm
possible for these people to sustain
themselves. They are helpless. The
Peabody Subsistence association is en-
deavoring to feed them. The Howard
| association is fully occupied in nursing
and caring for the destitute and sick.
Each organization is distinct and has
its separate charity: but restitution re-
sulting from epidemic has spread far
beyond the limits Of disease, and its
needs are no less urgent. The Pea
body association has been in active op-
Grafton but five days. It has distributed
one weeks rations to 1890 families,
representing 5000 people, and calls
show no diminution. So far, great bulk
of supplies issued have been donated
by our own people. The generous aid
extended from abroad, except to Inn
tied extent, has not reached us. The
requirements are stretching beyond
the means of our citizens. The How
ard association has nobly donated us
the sum of $4,000 from its funds. At
the present rate Of distribution, this
will last five days; the necessity may
exist yet for forty days. . .
A Vicksburg dispatch Of the 9Th says:
Up to 6 P. NJ. Is deaths and 81 new
cases were reported. At the meeting
OF the board of health, this evening
the sanitary inspectors report for the
month Of August was read. The fol-
lowing is brief synopsis: The sanitary
Inspector of the LIST district reports 9S7
cases in August. The sanitary inspector
of the I'd district reports 595 cases and
105 deaths; 5rd district, 81 cases-30
natives, "A foreigners; 50 white, 2 col
ored; II females, 81 males; q children,
q adults; 6 deaths; also reports the to-
tai failure of carbolic acid as a disin-
fectant, and sui phur as a fumigator
4th district, no report; 9TH district, Al
giers, no cases up to August LIST; IN
August, II genuine cases. The
sanitary inspectors say the cases
of children are Of similar type as
yellow fever, but different from it
in many points. The sixth district SAN
itary Inspector reports 100 cases, whites
104, blacks 5; adults, 80; children under
II years, So; natives, 76; foreigners, 80.
Deaths in August, IL; natives, Z; for
eigners, 4; adults 2, whites 6, blacks l,
children t. The most MALIGNANT type
and successful invasion Of adjoining
premises was at the corner Of Taylor
and ST. Charles streets, and there was,
besides, an instance where the untlring
efforts towards the determination Of the
fever germs by the use of carbolic
acids and sulphur fumigation failed
most signally. The inspector does not
think that the adjoining dairies, I'M
clean as some are kept, had anything
to do with the fever; but the infective
drainage Of the streets is more likely
the only and true cause of the malig-
nancy Of the fever in that quarter.
| Holly Springs called for help on the
9TH. At Memphis the situation con-
tinued about the same with the usual
number Of deaths and new cases. ~.
At New Orleans On the fourth inst,
sixty new cases were reported to the
board Of health. Among the new cases
are Mai. Nathaniel Burbank, of the Pica-
yuae, julius Resck, we'll known mu-
sician, III. Heidenheim, and two sisters
of mercy at St. Andrews convent
Several cases also at the Boys Orphan
Asylum on St. Charles avenue. Father
Dufo, the only priest in Shreveport who
survived the epidemic there, goes to
Vicksburg, this evening, to assist Bishop
Elder. Mrs. Matte Narville, wife of
the late 0. H. Narvllle, of the Democrat,
died to-day. @a1 s Try n"s 55#' 81
A Memphis dispatch of the 4th
inst, says: Cur city at pres
ent is one vast charnel house. Under
takers report So interments for 24hours
ending 6 P. NJ; Of these SO deaths caused
by yellow fever, 76 were whites and 20
blacks. The county undertaken discov-
cred the fact that at nightfall there were
about so more reported dead that still
remained unburied The question of
disposing Of the dead is becoming seri-
Gus. One Of the citizens relief commit
tee has employed a burial corps of 80
negroes to assist the county undertaken
and his men, and it has even been sug-
gested to burn the dead if they cannot
be buried more promptly, as corpses
have been known to lay unburied for
more than As hours, burthening the air
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