The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-09-19
The Yellow Fever.

springs, 0TOWnSNlile ana hlCkmau.
At New Orleans 1t is in a compare
lively mild form, and SO at Vicks
burg. At Memphis and at other
points in Tennessee If is said to be
coupled with malarial fever, which
makes it manageable in many in
stances. The two diseases have to
be treated separately. 1t has ap-
peared at Somerville and Paris,
Tenn, and will doubtless prevail
more or less throughout the entire
western portion of the State, unless
an early frost should mercifully put
an end to il.
At Brownsville on Monday there
were 16 new cases and A deaths.
On Tuesday there were 5 cases and
deaths.
There have been several deaths
of refugees at Huntsville, Nashville
and other points in Alabama and
Tennessee, and the spread of the
disease is probable.
At Memphis on the 10th there
was a slight decrease in the number
of new cases, which was only 136,
deaths Ill. On the 18th new cases
not reported deaths SO.
Reports from Holly Springs are
more cheerful, though the sick list
is very large, and the mortality still
great. On the 18th there were ID
new cases and 9 deaths.
At Vicksburg the mortality is
about the same, but larger proper
ton of cases get well than at any
other point except n. O. On the
10th, there were % deaths, and on
the 18th %. New cases not re-
ported. The Towards announce
that they have plenty of supplies.
AT New Orleans on the 18th
there were only los new cases, but
there was a great increase in NOR
tality-73. On the 18th there were
223 new cases and 81 deaths.
At Grenada 4 new cases and 6
deaths on the 10th and 3 new
cases and 4 deaths on the 18th.
At Gallipolis, Ohio, above Gin
cinnati on the Ohio river, there
have been IT cases and deaths.
The disease was carried there by
the ill-fated steamer Porter.
Below we give report of the
number of deaths at all points to
date. 1t is made up from the Cou-
rierJournaPs report, with addi-
tions compiled from the daily dis
patches:
New Orleans, 2.215; Memphis,
2,002; Vicksburg, CLIO: Grenada,
303, Port Gibson, 104; Holly
Springs, SO; Greenville, 81; Canton,
6S. Plaquemine, 80; Brownsville,
Al; Ocean Springs, 33; Hickman,
KY, 80; Baton Rouge, 81; St. Lou
is, SO; Louisville, II; Port Eads, IL:
Gallipolis, 8; Senatobia, 8; Cincin
natl, IL; Delhi, La, z; Morgan City,
La, 8; Pilot Town, La, 5; Grand
Junction, %; Biloxi, Miss, 5;
Nashville, 3; Erin, Tenn, 2; Chat
tanooga, 2; Summit, Miss, 2; Tus-
caloosa, Ala, 2; Cairo, ILL.,, 2; and
or each at Helena, Ark; Pitts
burg, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Miss,
Mobile, Ala, Collierville, Tenn,
Goodrich Landing, Beechland, Miss,
Bolton, Miss, Chicago, Bowling
Green, KY, Mason, Tenn, and
Danvllle, Ky. Making total of
ebout 1894 in all. We do not
claim for this perfect accuracy, but
it is very nearly so if not quite.
We thank Col. A. C. MeKissack
for copy of the Holly
Springs Reporter which has been
reduced to sheet 81 by liz
issued occasionally. From it's
issue of the 18th we learn that
there had been seventy five deaths
there from yellow fever, and there
were at least $50 sick. Holly
Springs was supposed to be a safe
refuge. There had never been an
epidemic of yellow fever there, al
though she had been the asylum of
retreat from the scourged cities for
years past. The Reporter in its
last issue before the fever appeared
there, said:
"Holly Springs has never been
so clean and healthy. The Board
of Health have earned the good
will of our people by their excellent
sanitary measures.
"Holly Springs is 720 feet above
the sea level. Grenada $50 feet,
Holly Springs has no sewer to
open, nor malarial river to flow by
her as has her unfortunate sister
city, Grenada.
"The highest medical authorities
say yellow fever cannot originate or
spread in any altitude over 500 feet
above sea level. The alarmists
should study this paragraph care
fully"
Some persons doubted our state
ment that Holly Springs was 100
feet above the sea level, but here it
is corroborated, The "highest med
ical authorities say yellow fever
cannot originate or spread in any
attitude over 500 feet above the
sea-" but here is a sad contradic-
ton of their theory. The first case
was a refugee from Grenada on the
10Th of August followed closely by
or other refugees, and then on
the 2Sth by citizen, and on the
3Ist by many citizens.
The Occasional Reporter" says
words can not express the graft
tude of the suffering people of Hol-
ly Springs to those who have so no
bly, responded to appeals for help"
1t mentions the names of many he
roes, among them that of Hon.
Kinlock Falconer, Secretary of
State, (Gen. Bragg's old adjutant)
who changed his post of duty"
from Jackson to Holly Springs
when the fever broke out.
Col. E. w. Upshaw, father of our
copfrsre of the Columbia Journal, is
down with yellow fever at Holly
Springs. HIS nobleness of soul was
strikingly exhibited in the noble eff
forts he made in behalf of his peo-