Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-08
THE DREAD VISITOR.
THE DAYS STORY OF THE FEVER
CARNAGE.

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Gloomy Reports from the Rural Stricken
/ Districts--Spread Of the Disease In Ger
tain Portions of New Orleans--Meetfne al
the National Fever Commission at New
! Orleans--scope and Manner of Investiga-
tion--Grand Fete in Paris in Aid of Fever
! Sufferers miscellaneous Notes of the
Dread Visitation.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. THE demand for
nurses at the Howard association headquarters
to-day has been in excess of the supply The
present warm weather has a tendency of spread
ing the fever, and reports from interior towns
give gloomy accounts of the condition of
affairs. Additional nurses were sent to Tus-
cumbla, Ala, Moscow, Paris, Lagrange, Mason,
Brownsville and Gaines. Miss, this afternoon,
and others will be sent tomorrow.
Sheriff J. w. Anderson is reported in criti-
cal condition, with but faint hopes of recovery
The appeals for physicians from adjacent
towns, which have been responded to, has left
scarcity of medical men in Memphis, and the
demand for their services are increas
ing daily. The board of health
officially reports twenty-six deaths
from yellow fever during the twenty-four
hours ending o'clock tonight. Undertakers
report ~ additional deaths occurring outside the
CITY limits for the same period. Among those
died are P. M. Brown, E. s. Chemeyer Mrs.
Margaret Saur, VIM. Sheperd, Edward Hanley,
Isaac Ell. Hawley, Park Tayl +, j. E. Pollard,
Mrs. NJ. j. Barleson, James Doyle, Mrs. j. A.
StIehl, Miss Kate Cook, Eliza Michel, Mike
Provenzala, Mitchell Brown, ST., r. F. Brown,
secretary of the board of health, and Thomas
Stewart, late in charge of Elmwood cemetery
DR.. J. r. Tample, of Austin, Miss. assistant
physician in charge of Camp Joe Williams died
this morning. j. B. Cook, architect, Mayor
John Logue, Martin Griffin and w. W. Thatch-
er are classed among convalescents.
NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Oct. deaths, Al; cases re-
ported, lis. Total Deaths 1912; cases, 10000.
J. W. Nader, secretary of the Peabody associa-
ton, is con-alesclng. Reports show contin-
ued uprising of fever in the Third and Sixth
districts. Every member of families, in some
cases being FRUSTRATED. Those in af1uant cir
cumstances find difficulty in securing compe-
tent nurses. In the First district of Algiers
there is no improvement
Rev. Father Kratz, of Vaudeville, La, died
yesterday of yellow fever. DR.. Kennedy,
volunteer physician from Galveston, was taken
down with fever yesterday.
The Young Mems Benevolent association of
Ascension parish, makes an appeal for aid.
Fever is spreading in the parish of st. John
the Baptiste.
Between Gold Mine plantation and Armant
place, Assistance of about five miles, Is cases and
deaths reported. Fever principally con-
fined to children.
Mortuary report for the week ending Sunday,
p NJ: Total deaths SOB; yellow fever 1913;
other fevers so. Deaths in public institutions
80; deaths certified by coroners %.
Among the new cases reported tO-nieht are
Mro PCh Rrftf 90
Lippold and the wife Of the late Rev. b. G.
Slater
Eighteen physicians of the Howard me deal
corps renort 81 new cases.
New ORLEANs, Oct. THE Peabody associa-
tion issued a. 723 rations and sent 1860 rations
to Freetown. The Orleans relief committee
have commenced work. The merchants will
advance rations in anticipation of arrivals.
Applications for relief to Y. M. G. A. 118. The
Towards to-day sent five nurses to Bay ST.
Louis and to St. Gabriels postofice.
THE YELLOW FEVER COMMISSION,
appointed by Surgeon General Woodwork, ,
consisting of DR.. NJ. Bemis, Of New Orleans,
chairman; DR.. Jerome Cochrane, of Mobele,
and Prof. Ellord Howard, of Baltimore, met
to-day in the University building. DR.. Coch-
rane explained to the reporter the method of
inquiry to be pursued, IN addition to answers
expected to be received from persons to whom
every possible question in regard to contagion
or Infection, spread, effects of treatment and
results of yellow fever. The commission ex-
poets to gather an immense amount of testimony
by investigation of particular cases, by going
from house to house and making inquiry of
convalescents, their relatives and friends, ex-
aiming the sanitary condition of the foci of
the disease, and in numerous other ways COM
piling to clear up the ground and reach some
general principles upon which a respectable and
automatic idea can be based. With this intent
the commission spenF the morning hours in
selecting from books furnished by the board of
health the names of persons and places to be
visited. No prominence il sought to be given
to the selected persons. Their names will,
therefore, be withheld from the public. The
results of visits hereafter will be published in
full.
BENEFIT FETE IN PARIS.
PARIS, Oct. 7.-Krantz, chief commissioner of
the exposition, has written to Commissioner
General Mccormick, Offering to organize a
special performance in behalf of the fever suf-
ferers. In his communication he says: We are
desrous of showing your country that we share
its sorrows, and of testifying to our former
compatriots that at heart always with
them. Mccormick replied, thanking Krantz
in the name of the States: The offer meets the
appreciation of the American continent, and
1cGe Tor the OeneuG OF the aHllCLeQ people OF the
South will take place at Trocadero Place. the
18th inst Gen. Borel, French minister of war,
has sent Gen. Moves, the American minister,
500 francs for relief of yellow fever sufferers in
the United States.
BATON ROUGE.
BATON ROUGE, Oct. 7.-One hundred and
eleven new cases and IL deaths officially report
ed, with physician to hear from, in the 43
hours ending this morning. The plague is
speedily and constantly doing its work, with
no pros pc ct of abatement. The weather con-
tinues hot and oppressive. A great many
cases are reported as doing badly. The cry for
assistance is coming from every quarter, and
the Towards are sorely pressed. The Towards
expenses now amount to hundreds of dollars
daily, and their resources are fairly melting
away. Assistance is much needed.
AT OTHER POINTS.
CHATTANOOGA, Oct. DR.. Vanderman re-
ports for twenty four hours, deaths from yell
low fever: Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart; seventeen
new cases, eleven colored. The change to cool
er weather and the small mortality shows the
disease is losing its malignant character and
inspires hope.
PoRT HUDSON. Oct. Fourteen cases of
fever. Sixty persons who have not had it. DR..
Weary is here with nurses.
CANTON, Oct. Fever abating here but
spreading through Gne country.
CAIRO, Oct. Tone new case reported for the
last twenty-four hours and two deaths from
fever.
TH1BEpEAux, Oct. Fever spreading rapid
". twenty-seven new cases, no deaths.
Jackson, MISS, Oct. 7.-Fifty-seven cases of
yellow fever to date; fever increasing slowly.
BATON ROUGE, Oct. 7.-Drs. Woods, Harri-
son and Whitaker are improving very slow.
BAY ST. LOUIS, Oct. Twelve new cases
three deaths.
GRAND JUNCTION, Oct. Fever at stand
l NJ 80, no 81. nov Loo ha ToGrorr.