Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10
PROGRESS OF THE FEVER.

Weekly reports, ending on the oth lnstant'
to the Surgeon General Of the United States
Marine Hospital Service, show the following
number of cases and deaths for the week, at
the places named, as we'll as the total num-
Der since the inception of the disease:
New Orleans-1,754 cases fever and $50
deaths. Total, 1928 cases and 5000 deaths.
Southwest Pass-5 deaths
Morgan City-155 cases and 18 deaths.
Total, 300 cases and 40 deaths.
Baton Rouge, Friday morning at nine
oclock-524 cases and 80 deaths. Total L.
All cases and 7S deaths.
Plague Mine-242 cases and 10 deaths for
week ending September 81. Total to that
date, SAT cases and 63 deaths.
Pass Christian-26 cases and 8 deaths.
Total, SO cases and deaths.
Mississippi City-12 cases and 2 deaths.
Total, 20 cases and deaths.
Canton, Mississippi-Total number of cases
to the 4th, 720, and deaths 113. Dr. Semmes
reports the fever milder. Material nearly
exhausted.
Ocean springs-1S cases, 4 deaths. Total,
7S cases and % deaths.
Pascagoula-1 death.
Mobile-13 cases, deaths. Total, 80 ca.
ses and II deaths,
Vicksburg-7O deaths. Total, 349.
Brownsville cases and 20 deaths. To.
tai, 274 cases and 86 deaths.
Chattanooga-43 cases and 1S deaths. To-
tai, "a cases and A deaths.
Nashville-6 deaths-all refugees.
St. Louis-2 deaths at quarantine none
in the city. Total deaths, quarantined and
city, Al.
Memphis-199 deaths during the week end
ed 3rd instant. Total deaths to that date,
2,627.
Grand Junction--First case (refugee) oc-
Cured August IL. Total cases, 1920; deaths
81.
Louisvlle-During the week, cases and
5 deaths. Of these, 5 cases and 3 deaths
we're among inhabitants residing near the
Louisville and Nashville depot. No alarm
exists, as it is believed there that the fever
will not spread beyond its present narrow
limits. The small number Of cases seem to
warrant this belief Total cases to date 102,
mostly refugees, as previously reported total
Deaths Al.
Cairo-Three cases and one death since
October End.
Cncinnati-From September % to Octo-
ber 2, two cases Gone refugee) and one
death.
Grenada-Eighteen cases of yellow fever
are under treatment; the number of deaths is
not definitely ascertained.
Water Valley-For the week ended Sep
tember %, 18 cases and 10 deaths. Total
number of cases to that date, 80; deaths II.
Key West-No cases of fever or deaths
from September 81 to October 4.
At New Orleans on Saturday there were
81 deaths and IS new cases.
TIE latest intelligence indicates that the
scourge is spreading. A dispatch ofMonday
night from Port Gibson, Miss, says the fe-
yer has appeared on several plantations in
the vicinity of that place. The total deaths
in the country around Port Gibson are 81.
For the twenty four hours ending at noon
on Monday, there were 49 deaths and 1872
new cases in New Orleans.
The following reports Of deaths and new
cases are for the twenty-four hours ending
Monday evening, unless otherwise stated !:
Donaldsville, deaths; new cases, %. Bay
St. Louis, 8 new cases. 4 deaths. Morgan
City, 20 new cases; to-day, over 140 down.
jackson, Miss, 80 cases to dates deaths
all white. Osyka, 8 new cases 1 death.
Biloxi, % new cases deaths. Thibadeaux,
30 new cases; 1 death. Port Barrow, l.
Boule Sacramento, l. A Memphis dispatch
of Monday night says the demand for nurses
at the Howard Association on Monday was in
excess of the supply. The prevailing warm
weather has tended to favor the spreading Of