The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-10-05
YELLOW FEVER.

| II the great SCourgc shows any diminutior
during the past week it is 10 be accounted tol
solely on the ground of decrease of material tc
operate upon. There is certainly no let up in
malignity or readiness to Smitc all who come
in its way.
At Memphis the week opened with warmer
weather, and though the fever seemed to have
passed its climax in the city, IT'S spread into
the rural districts was continued with singu
lar violence. There has not been day but
the Towards have been importuned for sup
plies and nurses from all directions outside OF
the city for distance of % miles, and every
call has been answered In the city the daily
mortality was from 2S to 81, the higher mum.
Der towards the latter part of the week, The
total number of deaths to Oct, LIST was 2,,ls,
which Is about . per cent of the total popuIa,
ton of 10000, but at least 10 per cent, of those
who remained in the city.
In New Orleans the death rate continued
steadily during the week at about % q day,
with daily return of about POO new cases.
The fever has found an immense supply OF
new food in the return Of some 5000 from the
gulf coast and lake shore watering places,
every one of whom is bound to be attacked on
his appearance in the city, The weather has
been quite warm all week, which Is another
fact against any favorable decrease of the NOR
,aliy The Peabody Association continues TO
Issue 10000 rations "A day to the destitute, and
the war Department having refused to issue
any more, the Association calls on the North
for contributions. The Towards were appeal.
ed to for help but said, while they responded
to all applications made TO them, they had no
money to be spent by other associations. The
total deaths to oct. lst was 30S9,
At Vcksburg the death rate was about Sper
day during the week, the new cases being
chiefly returned refugees The weather has
been showery, clearing off hot. While there is
such decided amelioration of the plague in
the city, however, the country for miles in all
directions around is suffering terribly, and all
the energies Of its local relief associations are
directed 10 work outside.
Holly Springs continues to have about 10
deaths day At Grenada there have been no
new cases and no deaths during the week. and
the Towards have left. The place wants no
more aid Grecnville, Miss, with population
Of 400, lost 2l9 by death, and of her whole
population but - escaped having the fever.
At Baton Rouge the fever had been compare
lively light until the middle of the present
week, when it began to increase rapidly,
Thursday showing % deaths and 100 new
cases. Water Valley, Canton, Port Gibson,
Hickman, Brownsville, and dozens of other
small cities and villages in Tennessee, Louisi-
ana and Mississippi are all more or less severe
ly afflicted, and are mainly dependent for help
on the large cities. Gallpoles, Ohio, had a
new scare on the eth ult. by the appearance
of three new cases in the heart of the city, one
of them being deck hand on the Inflated Por
ter, who died. The others being IN fair way
to recover, and there beng no new cases, the
panic has subsidized The scare at Chattanooga
has also largely disappeared on the death rate
dropping to two a day with no new cases, and
no spread of the disease from the limited quar-
ter in which it first appeared.
The biggest scare during the week was at
Louisville, where eight alleged indigenous
cases having showed themselves in the viclni-
ty Of the Nashville depot, report went out
that the disease was spreading all over the city.
People began leaving in hundreds, and at Gin
cinnati there was flying report that there
were $50 cases day at Louisville. 1t was al
sheer scare, however The eight cases near
the railroad depot were either refugees from
below or some other fever, and there have been
no other cases since then. SO the panic has
subsidized.