Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-12
yellow FETER, ETC.
Official Record of the Past Week.


Official Record of the Past Week.
OFFICE SURG EoN GENERAL, US. Mis-,
WASHINGTON, Oct. l., 1878.
Abstract of Sanitary Reports Rsceirea dur.
Quarantine Act
New Orleans.-There were 9SS cases of vel
low fever and $40 deaths during the last week
ended Yesterday afternoon. For the last "A
hours. 164 cases and 49 deaths. The diseas
now prevails throughout the city. Total case
For Fort ' Esds. % LaSone death from yellow
fever occurred this week.
Baton Rouge, La.-397 cases of yellow fever
serday Toa ss 9eed deaaSs saSsd m yes
Morean City, La.-DnTing the week ended
YESTERDAY there were l2S cases OF yellow feve
and % deaths. Total eases 42s, deaths Il.
fever and deaths for the week ended at noon
Yesterday. Total cases l03. deaths %.
beas xara q casss MsTSF 81 the past week
eaths. Total cases 81. deaths 9.
Bay st. Louis, Miss.-During the past tw
weeks ended Yesterday evening there were 2Os
eases 81 SSeabs lever and So deaths Total
Biloxi: Miss.-From commencement OF out.
break Of yellow fever, to the llth inst, there
Port Gibson, Miss.-The yellow fever has
spread into the country at least 80 planta-
tions surrounding Port Gibson are now in
at 100
Friars Point, Mss.-There have been l3
cases OF yellow fever and deaths to yester-
CRYSTAL Strings. Miss. Total cases OF yellow
fever to yesterday evening 81. deaths 36. The
lever first appeared at Dry Grove neighbor-
Hernando. Miss-The first case OF yellow
fever. a refugee from Memphis. occurred
August 3lst: . cases and 10 deaths during the
pass week: =, Total cases to yesterday evening
Grenada, Miss cases of yellow fever and
deaths for the past week. Corrected total
deaths to yeste day evening 323.
Spring Hill, Grenada county, MS5.-l5 eases
First case October 1st.
were 30 deaths from yellow fever. 95 deaths
have occurred in Warren county, outside of
NIcksburg. Total deaths in city and county,
Holly Springs, NIiss.-Total cases of yellow
fever TO October Sth, l,01; total deaths 10 that
jackson. Miss-Between 80 and 40 cases of
yellow fever reported to October 5th.
Memphis, Tenn.-There were l57 deaths
from yellow fever for the week ended the
evening of the 10Th inst. Total deaths, 2,7sl.
and s. deaths for the week ended yesterday
afternoon. Total cases, 4l3; deaths. III
Paris, Tenn.,Ihe first case of yellow fever
among n The nhaslta9ts az occurred
gees. August 23d. Total cases to Yesterday
evening, 50; deaths, p.
Cairo, ln.-TOtal cases of yellow fever to yes.
day evening, 81, besides doubtful cases; total
deaths, %. Assistant Surgeon Waldo, of the
marine hospital service, taken sick on Thurs
day probably with yellow fever.
the city; 3 deaths at quarantine during the
past week, two of which were refugees. The
superintendent of the quarantine station is
sick with yellow fever.
Louisville, Ky.-FOr the week ended yeSter-
day evening there were 10 new cases of yellow
fever and s deaths, OF Which numbers cases
and deaths were among the Inhabitants re-
siding IN the infected portion OF the city re-
felred to in previous reports. Total eases, liz
deaths, 40; OF these IS cases and 81 deaths
WcTe refugees.
have occurred since last report up to the 9Th
inst.
Mobile. Ala.-There We're cases of yellow
fever and ) deaths since noon of O;to0er It'll
tothe llth inst. Total cases, 81; deaths, y.
Decatur, Aia.-The first case of yellow fever
occurred Sept. 1th: Total eases to yesterday
evening 50; total deaths l..
Key West, Ela.-TWu cases of yellow fever
occurred this week. the first since the 2l.t of
sept. Total cases b; deaths l6.
=. Canton, MisS.-From Oct. 18th to Oct. 10th
. deaths. To:al cases to that date SO; deaths
Havana, Cuba.-Twenty- six deaths from vel
Oct. 5th, N wan '''''' p'A' "'7A en'e"
No reports received from the following
places where yellow fever exists: Greenyille,
InlSolooippi Slty, NllSS.s water valley,
Miss: Chattanooga, Tenn. Grand Junction,
Temp; Hickman. KY; South Pass, La; Pla-
quemine, La, sc.
South America-At Rio de Janeiro there
were deaths from yellow fever and a from
small p0X during the week ended Sept. 10Th.
Good health prevails in Barranquil1a, New
Grenada; adviceS Sept. 10Th.
EurOpe.-1n 132 cities and towns of the Ger
man m en- EMPIRE J having an aggregate population
causes for the week ended Sept. sd, being an
annual rate of mortality of 26.7 per l. 900 of the
population. Among the deaths reported there
were l04 from scarlet fever, from typhus l0i
from diphtheria and Group, and none from
small pox.
At Vienna, Austria, during the week ended
Sept. llth. there were Il deaths from smallpox,
2lrom typhus, from scarlet fever and Il from
dphtheria.
Africa.-A dispatch from the United States
conSu late at Gibraltar, Sept. 23d, states that
private adyices from Tangier announce l03
deaths from cholera at CaSablaflca. Morocco
on 18th September, MoOrS, Jews and Chris
tlans being attacked by the disease. At EeZ
the cholera is reported as Increasing Cholera
has broken OUT in several other places in the
interior of Morocco. At MogadOre, Morocco
the deaths from hunger and typhus are re-
ported to be from 60 to 20 per day. The hun
cry M0orS attacked the custom house and
Bl itiSh ana Spanish cOnSulates at that place
and were repulacd with loss
ASla.-Ihifty-One deaths from cholera in
Bombay, week ended Aug Goth. No deaths
from cholera in Calcutta for week ended Aug.
10th. JNO M. WOODWORTH.
Surgeon General L. S. NJ. HI. S.