Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-10-08
THE FEVER.

| CAIRO, October I. The outlook i. favorabl lie
this noon. No new CASTS of fever since Saturday.
| One death since last report.
| MEMPHIS, October I. The steamer John Nc.
Chambers, from st. Louis, with supplies for the
| infected points between this city and Vicksburg
arrived this morning. The steamer this af,erno
takes all mails for points below here and which
have accumulated since communication was cut
| of.
Nurses being sent to all interior town ada
| cent TO Memphis, where lever has appeared.
The weather is clear aud warm. Since six
O'Clock last night % deaths reported by under
takers.
BATON ROGUE, October I. One hundred aud
eleven cases and eleven deaths n The forty-eight
hours ending this morning. The scourge steadily
and constantly doing Its work and prospect of
abatement. 4 he weather Is hot and oppressive.
A great many cases are reported as doing badly.
CHATTANOOGA, October 7. There has been one
death from yellow fever in the past twenty -four
hours and seventeen new cases.
| The weather is cooler and the small mortality
shows that the disease is tossing its malignant
character
| MEMPHIS, October 7. The demand for nurses
al the Howard headquarters to-day is in excess Of
| the supply.
| The warm weather has tended TO favor the
| spreading OF the fever, and reports from the n-
| terror give gloomy accounts.
Additional nurses were sent to Tuscumbia, Ala.
|
vile, Tenn, and Garner, Miss, tn afternoon
| and others will he sent to morrow.
The appeals for physicians from adj AGENT towns
which was responded to, has left u scarcity of
medical men Ia Memphis, and the demand for
their services increases daily.
The board of health officially report 26 deaths
from yellow fever In "A hours ending tonight
The undertakes report % additional outside the
city limits for the same period.
New ORLEANS, October I. The reports show
n nnu linn Al of tau in h,rI
| and sixth districts. Every member of families in
some cases Is prostaed, aud those in afl dent cir
cumstances fiud diiculty in securing nurses. In
The 9th district. Alg iers, there is no marked i'm
proyement.
The Young Mems Benevolent Association of
Ascension parish make an appeal for aid
The fever Is spreading in the parish of St. John
the Baptist, between Goldmlne plantation and
Amant place, distance OF about five miles. Fiji
teen cases and five deaths are reported. The
fever is principally confined to children.
PoRT HUDSON, October 7. Fourteen ca ses of
fever here. There are but sixty persons who have
not had it.
CANTON. October l. The fever is abatng here,
but spreading through the country.
MOBILE, October I. Since the last report LIST
inst, the board OF health report eight new cases
of yellow fever. and three deaths. one of which
was a case previously reported. Two were of the
eight reported since the lst. Four cases are
now under treatment.
NEW ORLEANS, October Z. The mortuary re-
port Tor the week ending Sunday evening, at six
O'Clock number the total deaths at 5U3, yellow
fever 32S, and other levers 30. The deaths in the
public institutions were 80, aud deaths certified by
the coroner %.
The yellow fever commission appointed by
geon general Wadsworth met to-day in the Uni
versity building. DIR. Cochran explained to the
reporter the method of inquiry to be pursued IN
addition to he answers expected TO be received
from whom circulars he
These circulars embrace every possible question
IN regard to the origin OF the contagion or iniec.
ton, spread, Effects, treatment and results of yell
low fever.
The commission is expected to gather an i'm
mense amount of testimony by investigating par
ticular cases, going from house to house making
inquiries Of convalescents, their relatives and
friends, exam ming the sanitary condition of the
toci of the disease, and IN numerous other ways
attempt to clear up the ground and reach some
general prime lple upon which respectable and
atgumentic idea can be based With this intent,
the commission spent the morning hours 10 select
ing from books furnished by the board OF health,
the names of persons and places 10 be visited
The results OF the visits hereafter will be pub
lshed in full.
CAIRO, October T. One new case of fever in
the last twentyfour hours, and two deaths.
At Thibodesux the fever is spreading rapidly.
Twenty seven new cases but no deaths.
AT jackson, Miss the fever is increasing slow
~. Fifty seven cases to date.
AT Bay st. Louis there twelve cases and
three deaths.