San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-11-09
YELLOW FEVER NEWS.

wArhi Deaths ~ cases repotteu 40, tota
deaths $500; total cases, eleven thousand TIVE
hundred and six.
At Pattersonville, Louisiana, the fever il
spreading and on Teche generally: IS cases Il
date and % deaths The fever is of malig
} nant form with the whites, yet of mild type
with the blacks. Four deaths and new cases
since October 9Th Deaths-Miss Louisa Der
nard, Geo. Bernard, the daughter of Mr.. Burke
aged 10, and niece of Mr.. Dsuphine. Twelve
deaths to date Richoce. All doing well at
Calumet and Lagonda.
The death list includes afteen children un
der five years of age. Among the deaths are
sisters Mercedes and A Justine, of the con-
vent of Mercy, st. AnG,ew's street; brother
Joseph, of the order of the Holy Cross, from
Notre Dame, Indiana, and Lebanon Vaughn,
aged two years, and son of j. G. Aleyn, act
ing manager of the Western Union telegraph
Office.
The managers of the relief association report
having one thousand and fifty cases of yellow
fever since commencing their work, September
first, three hundred and twenty -tive of which
are still under treatment. Aside from furnish
,ng physicians, nurses and medicines for such
sick, subsistence for their families, in the az
,,regate five thousand persons, also has been
supplied by the association. They claim an
average death rate of less than five per cent
with all present patients doing well. Have &C
complished large amount of good work by
sending doctors, nurses and medicines into in
terror infected districts, all of which have met
with success.
Latest dispatches show that the fever con-
tinues at the following named places, and is
spreading throughout the surrounding country:
Canton, Vicksburg, Water Valley, Dry Grove,
Osyka, Port Gibson, Donaldsonville, Thiba-
Iaux, Sabadiville and Bay st. Louis, and con-
t,nues at Holly Springs, Baton Rouge, Morgan
City, Ricohoe, Tullulah, Delhi, Lake Waverly,
Edwards Ferry, Meridian, jackson, Ocean
springs, Biloxi Pass Christian, Mississippi
City, Berwick City, Winona, McComb City,
fangipahoe, Lafourche Crossing and at plan
atoms in Louisiana and Mississippi too num-
.rous to mention. :
The board of health, in special meeting to.
lay, passed resolution that committee of
i've, including the president, be appointed to
INQUIRE into the cause and origin of the yellow
ever in New Orleans and other parts of the
state of Louisiana, and to suggest to the leg
stature such measures as will tend to prevent
The recurrence of such calamity. Dr. Aus
5in wanted DR.. G. B. White, for many years
PRESIDENT of the board of health of New Or
eans as member of the commission Objec-
lions were made partly as the right Of the board
% appoint outsiders and this would be consid-
red as incapacity on the part of the board to
;rapple with the question. DR.. fancy favored
general commission of scientific men from all
,arts of the world. Neither would the local ,
have time to ascertain all the facts
before the meeting of the next Legislature. The
president finally appointed Drs. fancy, AL
,recht, Jones and Austin, as a commission. 1t ,
s understood the commission will recommend :
he appointment of general commission by +
he legislature, and to our representatives in
congress the appointment of a national COM =
Mission with the necessary funds to go thor
ughly into the subject.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 11.-Weather sultry, with t.
howers this morning. Still threatening. Re- a
ef trains under the directors of the Howard b
association were sent out this morning on the a
louisville and Memphis and Charleston rail- IL
Dads For the "a hours ending at noon to-day ii
deaths were reported by the undertakers; p
of these have died since six last evening" 81
mr. hn lacr 70 OH 70 ftop1 foL ,o;
ess are Geo. NJ. Baker, manager of the West
N Union telegraph office; w. w. Molken, II
lshier of First National bank, and A. j. P. Vi
oyle of the citizens relief committee. ="
VIcKsBuRG, Oct. 11.-Mercury at 8. p. NJ. =.
degrees; p NJ. rs degrees; deaths o-day s; -,
nong them DR.. Happaldt. of Morganton, -,
orth Carolina, who came on a call from the :,
oward association. New city cases are very .,
W. but there are some going down every day. -.
eports from the co&ntry continue to give &C -,
UNITS of the spread of the disease The fever =,
still increasing at Delta, La n,
BATON RorGE, Oct. 1l.-Fifty new cases Sc
d three deaths. Since the beginning of the sp
idemic We have had some 9, 900 sick and about m;
deaths. The rain storm of day before yes to
day brought no relief. Contrary to exp:c- VT
lions another warm spell is upon us, bringing of
tn it an increase of cases. The Towards are we
Il keeping up their work, with both white fig
black Great restitution prevails and the on
demic although not fatal to colored people, thu
them by hundreds. When strick- BE
they are found in need of everything. All me
aid possible is being extended to them. ed
new YORK, Oct 1.-THE committee collect lie
clotbipg for the fever sufferers address tho no,
ing Mems Christian Association, saying the sen
N has been complete success, and advises aii'
consideration in all great cities. pai
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