The Morning herald., 1878-09-11
TELECRAMS.
YELLOW FEVER.
THE DREAD PIsTELENcE,


THE DREAD PIsTELENcE.
SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN CASES IN NEW
oRLrANs--A CAD sToRY-ARRIvAL OF
REruaEEs.
A dispatch from New Orleans Sept. Q,
saws the number of new cases of yellow fe-
yer reported In the last twenty-four hours
ID % follows:
By the Howard $50
Board of Health l44
Young Mems Christian Association 4S
Total GIG
Against ST. yesterday; as increase OF 40.
A large number of the Howard,s cases
are cases that have laid over for the past
week unreported. Out of ffty.four cases
among the employees of the New Orleans
gas works and their families only eleven
have died 90 far, among whom four were
children.
DREAD OF TIE DISEASE.
! saw to-day . family Of four, not one OF
whom had had the fever. All were more
or less terri6ed-the mother most OF ALL
But this is not peculiar to this population
alone. We have not seen single unaccli-
mated person this season who does NOT
seem to stand in utter dread OF the disease.
This seems to be the prevailing feellng.
The rapidly with which the pestilence runs
its course may, in part, account 1or tnls.
yery low hours decids often the late Of the
patient, even when properly attended. In
az In a1mnet sire
death. This is Q peculiarity of the disea
alvays which the unscclimated will not un-
derstand, and yet, strange as 1t may appear
Il adds to their fear Of the fever. The
safe period after apparent recovery this
year seems to have been longer deferred
than usual.
AsAD CASE.
We knew of one case where the patient
died three weeks after being apparently
well. What made this case particularly
sad was that the young lady had just mar
ried a poor and honorable young man
against the consent of her parents, and all
OF her relatives deserted her in consequence
with single exception. Only the yearn-
ings of q mothers heart brought her to
visit and comfort dying child. Otherwise
the young wife was entirely unattended, ex-
cept by her devoted husband. None of her
wealthy relatives left their elegant man
sions to attend the funeral of the poor girl.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 9, 1878.
Southern refugees continue to pour in on
every train,D and, jwhile many 60 East,
hundreds remain. Louisville's Invitation
for all to come, sick or well, occasions the
most heartfelt gratitude. The tales of woe
told by those who chance to be interviewed
are heartrending in the extreme. Grenada
people have almost ceased to arrive, though
the representation from Mississippi other
wise continues large. New Orleans peo-
ple seem to take things calmly, but those
from Memphis are full Of gloomy appre-
tensions.
REJECTED BY TAE H0WARDs.
DR.. W. G. Ramsey, DR.. T. P. Pease and
Miss Aisle Wallace, of the compony Of ply
sicians and nurses who went from Washing
ton to Memphis last week, returned yester-
day morning to Louisville ON their way
home, DR.. Ramsey, who was the physL
clan irlcharge, states that he and the others
named were rejected by the Towards for
the reason that they were not acclimated,
the authorities having determined to force
- all unacclimsted persons to leave the city.
HORRORS IN MEMPHIS.
Doctors Ramsey and Peace say the hor-
r0rs OF the scourge In the doomed city are
not half told by the newspapers. A walk
or O ride through any street of the city ro-
veals the scene of death at almost every
step, while the stencil from rotting bodies
is most loathsome, the number of unattend
ed cases being 80 numerous that many are
found daily onlyby tracing up the scent
till its source is reached, and then 1t ia Of
ten the case that three or four dead bodies
are found in one room. 1t is said that one
cause Of the increased mortality In the city
was the daily visi' of the negroes and poor
whites from the country, those who have
taken refuge there and come to the city fol
rations and supplies. They are quickly
stricken down with the fever, and crawl
off to some vacant house or shanty to die
unattended. These doctors served one day
under the Towards, and say they VISITED
over hundred patins each during tha
time.