The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-26
z iYeHfow-Fever.
INCREASING AT. MEMPHIS.


MEMPHIS, August 24.-The fever is in
creaslng. The new cases for the past
twenty-four hours number los; deaths, is.
To-day the number Of new cases Of vel
low-ierer is reported as nearly double that
Of any previous day the total for the TWEEN
y-fours ending at 8 P. NJ. being LOG. The
deaths for, the same time number Is. 8:
IlTli:f:i5,35 AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, August 24.-From noon
to P. h. to-day 103 new cases were re-
ported.
NEW ORLEANS, August 24.-There were
one hundred and ninety-three new cases to-
day and fortyttwo deaths. Hugh Irvine.
chief operator ;of the Western Union tele-
graph Office In this city, died this morning
from yeIlow-fever. aiter six days illness.
| ABSTRACT OF sANTrxRY REPORTS FOR THE PAST
, !2,&.-&; -. WEEK. XIX 4 h. 5.s. ~
:a WASHINGTON, August "a. The following
| IS an abstrac: OF sanitary reports received
during the past week under the national
quarantine act - *. - =, i; - J.
T :, In New Orleans there were III cases Of
yellow fever and !295 deaths, making IN all
| to date 1878 cases and 534 deaths. during
the twcnty-four hours toEnoon Yesterday
there were 1913 new cases and 40 deaths.
In yicksburg there have been at least 400
| cases Of fever from August 18th to yester-
Eday evening and So deaths. :, Twenty deaths
occurred during the last twenty -fouE hours.
Dr.. Booth, In charge of the Marine Hos.
pital service at that port, telegraphs: 81
am sick; impossible to procure accurate
data" r. 80, >. ~ -
At Memphis there were IA cases and 6S
deaths during the six days ending Friday
evening. - 80 =. s... III
| At Canton, Miss, the first case occurred
on August 1st. Up to yesterday evening
there have been IS cases and eight DEATHS.
AT Port Gibson, Miss, there have been
11S cases and nine deaths up to yesterday
morning. -.F :. -
At Cincinnati the engineer OF the steamer
| Golden Rule was admitted to the hospital on
the 22d instant with yellow-fever. There is
also one other case OF probable yellow-feyer
from Memphis. + sl.k ~"
At Morgan City. La, there was one case
on August 21st, the patient coming from
New Orleans. r,..t .,=.-' s-.'.
At Ocean Springs there have been three
cases and one death--all imported. s-..
At St. Louis four refugees have died OF
yellow-fever during the past week.
| At Louisville four river-boatmen suffer-
ing from yellow-fever are under treatment
in m improvlsed hospltai on the Marine
Hospital grounds. They were admitted
from the steamers John Porter, SuDfower,
Bell, and Golden Crown on the 18th and
18th instant. '
The cases at Mobile reported as fever on
August 10th are officially announced rs q
mistake. -
At Key West there is no yelow-fever.
At Grenada, Miss, so many OF the re-
manning population are stricken with fever
that definite information cannot be OBJ
tanned. ---..,-.....~.. -.--'
At Havana ninety deaths from fever and
six from smallpox are reported for the
week ending August 18th. ~ r.
at Matanzas The yellow-iever cases have
decreased. Only five American vessels in
port August 18th, and all OF them have
either had or were having cases OF fever on
board. .......s. -. -,
From Cardenas and Sagua la Grande,
Cuba, there were no fever adyices to the
1911, instant ...-