The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-10-16

have been shree deaths and six new cases since
sPR1AD or THE FEVER IN AND AROUND DELTA,
LA.-FLvKR ON BOARD THE RELIEF BOAT.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
DELTA, La, Oct. Is, 1873
Drs. Gibbs and Hamilton say thers Is change In
ne general condition OF affairs Yellow fever 10
steadily on the increase IN this parish, with two
deaths r the past twenty -four hours The mortality
10 fearful among the nagroeR In the interior the
weather 10 uniavorable
The relief boat has fever on board and has returned
to Vcksburg. with the chie cfhceP down vish the
fsvs.
CHATTANOOGA MUCH WORSE THAN WAS sup
PosxD-220 CASES Of YELLOW YEvRR UNDER
TREATMENT.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HsRALD.1
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. Is, 1873.
The number OF deaths and convalescepss since sun
day have reduced the number OF yellow fever
uncor treatment here considerably. There IRE now
about two hundred and twenty under treatment.
TOTAL deaths TO date, 1lo. the to-day are
bwenty-threo white ana seventeen oolorsd The dis
Dass has shown 20 much inclination 70 spread on
10 the high grounds that these points
are Oeing slowly depopuiated Of families, Of
The CITY, The old Injected district has stili many
families IN u who ssubborny rotose or neglect 20
move 10 the camp prepared for them. Vigorous
measures being taken TO lover
hospitals, OF which there three open. Not
mill or a mandatory OF any kind is now IN opera
sion, except one furniture factory employing only
twenty hands. There are about three Thousand
.. night but no, .. midday and very uniavorabs 10
lever patients
axponrs FROM MEMPHIS THE DEATH RATE
LESS IN The cITx-THE FEVER WORSE In
THE COUNTY,.
MEMPHrs, Oct. Is, 1878.
The steamer Kentsr for ST. Louis passed up this
forenoon. DR.. N. " Kea.Ina. a volunteer physician
from New York. stricken down late last night
Twenty physicians oi tho Howard medical
corps report sixty-six new cases twcnty-sx
In the city and forty In tho suburba A. ID. Lang
stat, president OF tho Howard Association, who lett
here four days ago In charge OF tho Howard relief
tram, accompanied BY physicians and with nurses,
N extended trip ON The Memphis and Charleston
Railroad TO Chattanooga, visiting all points where
Itekncss exists. At Chattanooga no reports finding
OU cases OF yellow lever Al Decatur, Ala, loo per-
IONS were afflicted with tho lever, nil oi whom
sewing guod attention. Al Tuscumbia and Florence
bhe ievvf has Increased rapidly In tho pact
lew Gays, and owing 70 great difference
Of opinion among the resident physicians, none Of
whom had ever seen case oil yellow lever, tho dis
ease was not treated such ard tho result has been
that nearly all OF those who TOOK sick have died. Al
these points physicians we're le 10 render such AS.
s,stance ~ was necessary.
La Grangc, MOSCOW, SomervilIe, ColiiervilIs and
Germantown we're visited and supplies lott Tor
run this route TO rehsve the great dsss,.ution
when was found q. nearly every point Dr. >.
u. Collins. n Howard physician. who was sent 10
La Grange reports that eight cases VI fever nave APP
psAred at A,cnigaa CITY, MISS. This town has &C.
terced rigid quarantine Tor several weeks IL Is
seven or eant from the railroad, and s
difficult 10 DO reached.
rhs fever Is spreading rapidly a. Coilicrvilic.
Nineteen new cases and nine deaths have been re-
ported since saturday. Mr. 1. A. Rhodes, Miss
SAilis T. Ronoau ana three others died NJ German
town. Tenn, on Monday. Fvcr deaths occurred AZ
Grand Junction, Tchn., Monday. Dr. +. q. Prcwnt
n moi expected 10 survive The night
Ths weather ~ warmer. From Six O'Clock last even.
INK until neon today the undertakers report twenty
nvs intermentA Amtnx those WHO have died since
last evening are John Linborp, Ambrose Dalton, Jo-
sept Martins, and Brother Wenden, OF the
ORDER oi priests Rev. George q. Harris dean OF 81
Mary Cathedral, mas returned ana In once more on
active duty among hrs par,shOncrs.
GRAND JUScrIoS, Oct 10. 1S7a
There was one new deaths to-day.
the weather is warmer
Biloxi, Oct 15, 1878.
Two cases and iour deaths here.
THE rEvER HAS REACHED HI LENA. ARK.
HELENA, Ark, oct ID, 1878.
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