The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-08-23
THE FEVER ELSEWHERE
Terrible Condition ot Affairs in ylcks-
seurE

burg.
The following dispatch was yesterday re-
ceived by the Board of Health of this city:
VIcKsBURG. August g. 1878.
nurses and physicians. Seventy-five deaths
yesterday from yellow ED 6ve3 q BaNKay G2nf y9Ml NJ hep
The proportion of deaths to the population Of
thecity is SO great that it indicates a mistake
1t is probable that the dispatch should read
seventy five deaths to date,
Dr. Banks was in this city when the fever first
made its appearance. He visited the hospitals
and accompanied our physicians in their calls
on patients In regular practice, and is there
fore competent to make a comparison between
the type of the disease in New Orleans and that
in plague stricken Vcksburg.
To the dispatch of DR.. Banks DR.. Chopin
yesterday made the following response:
New ORLEANS. August %. 1878.
Dr. E. G. Banks. Vicksburg:
Sorry to hear Of your distress. The epidemic
is the battlefield of the true physician. viii
sSs medoa anMatl ad sAm * uh RfS WIN
President Board Of Health.
The mayor of Vicksburg also sent q dis patch
to the Board of Health calling for assistance,
and it was referred to the Howard Association.
! A private dispatch from
CANTON, MISS,
states that the fever is well under control and
confined 10 street. but the press di patches.
! in another column. indicate that this fact if it
is Il fact has not alayed the excitement or
quieed the terror of the people of that town, as
| according to the press telegrams the people are
leaving in hordes. and out of 1000 Inhabitants
| only 125 remain.
letter from
| TERRY MISS,
states that there has been no fever in that town
| that a negro woman a refugee from Grenada
| Cant Rr0Wu'S nlantAfif n
several miles from the corporation limits, and
died, and this gave rise to all the excitement,
That
| FRANKLIN. La.
| ia greatly excited there can be no doubt. The
| town has Quarant tined and the police jury wa
TO decide yesterday whether or not a uuaran
| tine OF the entire parish OF St. Mary should be
| declared
| That the fever has broken out in
MORGAN CITY
the following dispatch will show:
MORGAN CITY. August %. 1873.
DR.. Chopin, President Of Board of Health:
| One case of yellow fever here died this morn
ing, J. A. SMITH, nj. D.
The dispatches state that the situation at
! GRENADA
is more disheartening and desperate than ever
| before
HOLLY SPRINGS.
the town which invited all fleeing from infection
to locate there has two imported cases from
Grenada.
P0sTOFFICE NOTEs.
A New Mail Route to Grand Isle.
: Postmaster Badger yesterday received the fol
lowing dispatches:
, ATLANTA, Ca, August q, 1878.
Postmaster New Orleans. La:
withhold second and third class mails to Min
den Miss. until quarantine Is removed.
L. NJ TERRELL. Superintendent.
JACKSON, Tenn, August %, 1878.
Postmaster of \, W Orleans, La:
Sn-No mail desired from your postoffice TO
| Coffepvlle Miss unless fumigated before
, hand. Yours, respectfully.
CHAS. A. FEYHI
PATTERsoNvILLE La. August 81, 1878.
7 Gen. A. S. Badger. New Orleans, La:
r. Deer SRI am requested by the authoritie
to request you not 10 send any parcels. pack
, ages or any articles of merchandise to thi
office as this town is Quarantlned against New
Orleans. Yours. respectfully,
GEO. w. KERR. Postmaster,
Per e. HAusMANN.
i Postmaster Badger approaching the anxiet
T of families summering at Grand Isle about rela
! tives remaining in the city. and recognizing tn
| fact that the method of carrying the mail b
luggels was unsatisfactory on account OF il
/? slowness and irregularity, requested permls
: sion Of the postofiea uthorities at Wasnlngto
D. to make arrangements for more rapid trans