The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-29
THE DEADLY FEVER.
Improved Condition Of the ice
Water Patient"
DISEASE SPREADING.
M u n
How Filthy Streets and Garbage
Brought the Epidemic.
MEMPHIS IN MOURNING.
Alarming Increaee in the
Number Of Deaths. 81 a
VICKSBURG RELIEVED.
Port Gibson Taking the
Place of Grenada.
MEMPHIS IN MOURNING.
Alarming Increase In the
Number Of Deaths. 'A
vICKsBURG RELIEVED.
Port Gibson Taking the
~ Place of Grenada.

R8sULT OF TEE ICE WATER rREAxNENT--rHE
PATIENT Northumberland OF THE
1EvER-rNcREAsE IN NEW CASES AND
DEATHS.
IBY rELEoRAPH TO THE HERALD Seas,
NEW ORLxASs, August "a, 1878.
The moribund yellow fever patient treated by DR..
ohoppiu, Tuesday, with ice water spray, passed
worry night and Is 10 fair wav to recover
The headache and deiirium have disappeared. His
nm psrature il down 100 3-s, pulse So but he
BtiIl has traces OF albumen
not yEr AT IT'S CLIMAX.
The President Of the Board Of Health stated to-day
that the epidemic has not yet reached the climax.
Dr. Chopin says the fever exists more or less all
Sections city, bus very slightly out at Carroon
ana Third district Al Algiers, across the vassr,
It mas not yss appeared.
From BAD TO WORSE.
There is increase both In the nnmber Of patients
and In the deaths today. Two hundred and twenty
sew cases been reported by the Board OF Health.
Deaths 1ity.seven, or eight moro than yesterday.
Among tne dead to-day was OTTO Hsyn we'll known
member OF the Cotton Exchange. He died In iorsy-
sghs hours after contracting the disease He was
sctive gsnsrous-hexrted business man, and Will be
lseply rsgrested by his old associatcs st .s,,
PoRT GIBSON INFECTED
despatch from ths Towards OF Port Gibssn,
Miss, to the Howard Association OF Now Orleans,
mys:-ssFever worry fatal. anu NO abatement. Two
hundred and thirty cases and thrty-fve deaths to
date. Ice 10 wanted than anything else Nurses
doing we'll. Our expenses $50 per day. New
York, st. LOUIS, Jackson and Columbus are aiding.
But one or two convalesoent persons far" This
vas answer to despatch asking further assist
snee was required. 49, ,s -
CANTON PLAGUE HOUND. 49, -
eases TO be increase there. and apDication
came from there to the Towards hero to-day asking
for additional nurses and material Every efYort Is
bein made combss the dreadful disease A Times
corresp ndsns writing nom there August n, says
ssG arrived hero Sunday last Pretty tough times
Not x.snglo business house opened sxceps tso drug
stores. Once population of $500, bus now
only ssvsnty vAAsskscs be fsund here. mayor
and family sick and Board OF Aldermen fed. Court
House locked UP and ofhcers gone safe place
Nothing but hoarse md collins TO Be seen on the
streets Some thrty.flve or forty cases OF yellow
fever here. Death list includes Miss Steele Mrs. Full
son. the three Misses Henry, Dr.. Mckay, Mra Carroll,
Miss BrutApl, &c. Many negroes have died within
the past fow days The few whites now hers
scared, because not . single OF yellow
been doctored successfully. No person attacked has
recovered
WHERE rns-scouRGE HAS xor REACHED.
A despatch from Colonel Daniel bennett, dated
Brookbavsp, Miss, says there ID not . yellow
ievsr in around BroeEhaven. He cannot hear OF a
sase OF yellow fever any between Canton and
New Orleans, distance OF over two hundred miles, Re-
ports the coast towns along the Mobile road
shsrs Is NO fever at any point between New Orleans
and Mobile. A letter from DR.. Case says there s mos
now at Ocean Springa Two Of lever had
curcd there; of the patients dfsd, vhile the
ether has entirely recovered. There 10 spread Of
ths disesse
INCRBAsHD CALLS FOR RELIEF
The Howard Association relief list is gradually In
sreasing. there being about nehundred and twenty
I'VE new applications daily The Young Mons Chris
elan Association now have 100 patients their relief
list
4 NATIVE OF NEW ORLEANS DECLAREs THAT
DIRTY STREETS AND FILTHY TENEMENT
PLANTATIONS CAUSED THE PLAGUE RE-
VARIABLE STATEMENT.
lBY TELEaRAPH TO THE HERALD
ST. Louis. August %, 1873
st. Louis 10 swarmIpg with refugees from tho fever
Injected district OF the South, and every Southern
train that arrives brings fresh additions No fears
arc felt that the scourge will take hold here. 81.
Louis welcomes all who come. Among the arrivals
to-day from New Orleans W. u. Kelis, promi
nent ana intelligent citizen OF that city.
CONDITION ORLEANS.
In an interview this afternoon he stated that whom
ne left New Orleans tho srssts were almost deserted
People confined themselves their houses, seldom
leaving thom except when absolutely necessary.
Whole families were swept down by the scourge.
Bald ne, 'rne worst ravsgss OF the fever are
sounned to those portions OF the CITY where
shs lower classes live. The higher classes have
rot suffered much. The city undoubtedly brought
sho fcver upon himself through taking sufcisns
sanitary precautions The impression prevalent ap-
pareniy all over the North, and New Urleabs
chat The disease did not originate In that city Is
soueoua 1t Is commonly supposed that the germ Of
she fever brought TO the city BY q ship frsm
Havana"
FILTHY STREETS oRIcNArfD THE DrsEAsR
That the foyer originated In New Orleans have no
doubt and mos, OF the members OF the medical fra.
ternisy with whom 1 have converscd are Of tho Same
opinion Al the time the fever began tho lower por.
tons Of the city were reeking with nth. There was
Insufficient sewerage and vegetable and AMI.
NAL matter permitted to accumulate In
the streets, which rapidly purified UNDER tho
burning rays OF the Gangs OF men worc
hired by the city clear the streets and worked
for few months bat as the dirt was scraped up In
pics and not all their labor wont for naught
Putrescence everywhere. The air was laden with
pestilsntiai smells Tho citizens osssn complained,
but the muuicpai authorities refused 10 need them.
yoRKwARxEp or rHg pIssAsR
The epidemic was ioreseen by great many people.
A physician predicted that there would DO yellow
fever II proper sanitary precautions not taken at
least thrco months before first case was reported
New Orleans you know, noted Tor its olsanl,-
boss, but ~ tho commencement OF the present sps-
Acmlc u was n the worst. condition l ever
nsw ~ The lower classes OF French and
Italians and The daGoes Eover attempt TO
keep their dwellings, clean, aud the city officers did
not attend garbage allowed to Ito IN the back
yards cutters and for weeks until the sun or
rain disinserrstsd putrcncd II. When an epidemic
Dad been declared by the Beard Of Health mon wore
~ pot 10 work cleaning the NTH from the city