The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-11-20

90. nclfich, VI. D.s New OiitanSs ,SASSn-
vile Dowe!I, M. D., Galveston, Texas;
Memphis. Tenn. James D. Gait, NJ. D..
health officer Of Norfolk, Va; Colonel
Thomas s. Hardee, engineer, New Or.
leans. La; William Fl. Mullins, Chatta.
|nooga; P. D. Sims, NJ. D., Board OF Health,
Chattanooga; W. L. Hope, Chattanooga;
| D. Stuart Lyon, Charlotte, n. c.; j. III.
Raymond. N. d., Sanitary Superintendent
| Health Board, Brooklyn; Lewis Fl. Steiner,
III. D., Frederick City, Nd; E. Heber-
smith, NJ. D., Marine Hospital Service, New
York; T. 4. Atchison, NJ. D., Nashville;
A. n. Bell, M. D., Garden City, L. l.; G.
W. Chancellor, N. D., secretary State Board
OF Health, Maryland; r. W. Mitchell. N.
D., medical director Howard Association,
Memphis; Heber Jones, NJ. d., health off,
Ger, Memphis; J. Berricn Lindsley. secre.
tary Board-o Health. Nashville; Rev. G.
K. Marshall, D. D., Yicksburg, Miss; s.
Writ Johnston, NJ. D., Jackson, Miss; o.
S. Iglehart, NJ. D., Mobile; F. j. Turner,
medical inspector United States navy,
Washington, D. c.; A. L. Gihon, medical
Inspector United States navy, Annapolis,
Md; Azel Ames, Jr., Board Of Health,
Wakefield, Mass; c. B. White, n. D.,
New Orleans; Henry B. Baker. N. D., Sec
| retary State Board Of Health, Lansing,
Mich. Edwin NJ. Snow, NJ. D., health offi.
Ger, Providence, r. l.. J. S. Billings, sur
geon United States army, Washington, D. c.;
Thomas l.. Neal, Dayton, Ohio; John NJ.
! Woodworth, Surgeon.General NJ. K. II. s.,
| Washington, D. e.; Professor j. L. Cabell,
NJ. D., University Of Virginia; Thomas
Kinloch, Charleston, S. e.; Robert Lebby,
health officer, Charleston, S. c.; George
a. Pelzcr. NJ. D., Charleston, S. c.; Charles
Buckley. Rochester, n. Y; f. G. Janeway,
N. D., New York; w. H. Mussey, NJ. D.,
Cincinnati; James 4. Stuart, president
Board Of Health CT Baltimore, Md; Pro-
fessor Henry }. Bowditch, M. D., chairman
Massachusetts, State Board OF Health, Boston,
Mass. Charles F. Folsom, NJ. D., secretary
Massachusetts State Board OF Health, BoS-
ton. Mass; James Crane. NJ. D., president
Board OF Health, Brooklyn; r. D. Webb,
Livingston, Ala; Stephen Smith, New
York; William &. Austin, New Orleans;
George E. Trescot, Greenvile. S. c.; 5. Q.
Vanderpool, Quarantine, New York; P. II.
Bailhache, surgeon United States Marine
Hospital Service. Baltimore; w. Fl. Long,
surgeon United States Marine-IIospital Ser
vice; Robert White, assistant surgeon
United States Marine e-Iiospital service. Phil
adelphia; E. Fl. Jones, NJ. D., New York;
w. Ii. Fl. Hutton, surgeon United States
Marine-Hospltal Service, New Orleans.
Many more names will be added this
morning.
| PERSONAL.
The following representatives OF the press
are here especially 10 report the proceed
ings OF the Association =. Z. Rarnum, OF
New York Associated Press: Henry Guy
Carlton, New York Times; Thomas NJ.
Coleman, city editor Public Ledger. PhlIa-
delphia; and Mr.. White, New York 1ri-
bune.
Among the members OF the Association
is Major w. T. WalthaIl, of Mobile, whose
heroic abors as q nurse in Memphis during
the worst stages OF the fever were so VAL
liable.
Major Walthall has been for several years
past the private secretary OF ex-President
Davis. and engaged in assisting him in COL
lecting material for his forthcoming Me-
moirs.'
1t will crafty their many friends in Rich
mond to state that Major Walthall reports
that both Mr.. and Mrs. Davis are recover.
ing from their recent illness.
Life In the Fever Districts Pictured.
DR.. Bemiss, OF New Orleans, president OF
the Yelow-Fevcr Commission, yesterday
related the following, giving some OF his
experiences in the yelow-fcver country:
i People throughout the rural districts in
the South, looking alone to self.preserra-
ton, frequently instituted neighborhood
quarantines without any law or authority.
Three or four neighbors would get together
with shot-guns and picket road, letting no
one pass. Should another epidemic occur
upon the heels OF THIS, or should an out
break OF the disease occur in the Seaboard
cities, people, in their present humor, Would
tear up the railroads.
Great endemic yistations lead to great
confusion, breaking up lines OF travel, stop
ping traffic upon the railways, and causing
great ANNOYANCE and lt.inflicted pains by
Imprisonment through quarantine. People
quarantine their houses and allow no oncto
come near them.
THE TRUE GOLD OF HUMAN NATURE.
Great epidemics, like all other infectious
sutferings and great troubles inflicted upon
the human family, bring out the true gold
of human nature, and at the same time show
the dross in our compositions. Instances OF
beroism and self-devotior stand side by side
with the most brutal and pusilanimous con-
duct that man is capable Of. One instance
| will relate. A father, having good deal
of property and being afflicted with the
vellow-fcYer, on his dying bed sem for his
three sons, all OF whom lived within mile
or two miles OF him, to come and receive
his dying blessing and allow bim to divide
his property among them. They let him
die alone without going to receive his bless
ing, but no doubt have arranged the pro-
perty matter long before this. In the same
village, where there was u mortality OF
nearly thirty per cent. Of the whole popu-
Iation, in the midst Of the most terrible part
NJ thn endemic. n Dalc-faccd hoy about
nineteen years OF age came walking into the
village and protiered hi. services in aid OF the
sick. The doctor II charge asked him what
he could do.
"Anythng, II you will first tell me how"
"Did YOU ever see case OF yellow-fc-
ver?" asked the doctor.
Never" replied the boy.
"You don'r know how to nurse yellow
fever" continued the doctor.
Said the boy: ssIf you tell me how,
can follow your directions"
The doctor pondercd moment, and then
) said: "You are already exposed, anyhow.
: I will keep you here and put you to work.
and when you are stricken down VIII
watch YOU"
THAT DEAR BOY.
Tie doctor, in describing this incident to
me, SAID he never witnessed such tender
nursing, such faithful watching. The boy
continued bis work CT love, and was the
means OF saving several lives. FINALLY, DIS
turn came. When the doctor first VISITED
= him he found him with his arms ioldeo
J across his chest, and he was at that moment
giving utterance to such prayer Us tue
o doctor declares, he never before heard.
TTnon questioning him the doctor learned
, that he was the only son OF a widowed
.ho. IIo b,3 falt i'm nplIad by a sense OF