The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-10-08
YELLOW FEVER.
No Abatement of the Sc0urge.
An Increase Reported from Nj any
Quarters.
The End Impossible to Estimate.
At New Orleans.


NEW ORLEANS, Oct. deaths 10 New Or
leans today Al; cases reported lis; total deaths
3212. cases 10000.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 1.-THE reports show a
continued spreading of the fever in the Sd and
9Th districts. Every member of families in
some cases is Frustrated, and those in afflueut
circumstances find difficulty 10 securing compe-
tent nurses. In the SIN district, Aigeers, there
is no i'm UrOvement.
The Young Mems Benevolent association of
Ascuncion parish make an appeal for aid. The
fever is spreading in the parish of ST. John the
Baptist, between Gold Mine plantation and
Armant place, distance of about five miles.
10 cases and deaths are reported. The fever
is principally confined to children.
The Outlook at Cairo.
CAIRO, Oct THE outlook at Cato was
favorable this noon. There have been no new
cases since Saturday. One death has occurred
since the last report.
At Memphis.
MEMPHIS, Oct. THE steamer John NJ
Chambers, from ST. Louis with supplies for the
infected points between Memphis and Vicks-
burg. arrived here this morning and left this
afternoon. She takes all the mail for points
below which has accumulated since communi.
cation was cut of.
Nurses are being sent to all interior towns
adjacent to Memphis where the fever has ap-
peared
The weather is clear and warm. Since six
o'clock last night % deaths are reported by the
undsrtakers
ters today is in excess of the supply. The warm
weather has tended to favor the spreading of
the fever, and reports from the interior give
gloomy accounts. Additional nurses were sent
Mazons and Brownville, Tenn, and Garner,
Miss, and others will be sent tomorrow. The
appeals for physicians from adj AGENT towns
which was responded to has lest scarcity of
medical men in Memphis. The board of health
reprt 26 deaths in "a hours ending tonight. I'm
dertakers report % deaths additional outs de
city limits for the same period
In Baton Rouge.
BATON ROUGE, Oct. I'LL cases and IL
deaths in the 4S hours ending this morning.
The scourge is steadily and constantly doing
its work and there is no prospect of an abate-
ment The weather is hot and oppressive. A
great many cases are reported as doing badly.
Aid to the Sufferers.
Gen. Borel, the French minister of war, has
sent to the American minister 500 francs, fer
the relief of the yellow fever sufferers.
Commander Kane, of the gunboat ALLAH cs,
at Leghorn, encloses to the Navy Department
a draft for 800. contributions from the off GERS
and crew of that vessel for the sufferers.
At Chaitnneogn.
CHATTANOOGA, Oct. There has been one
death from yellow fever in the p asst "a hours,
and II new cases. The weather is cooler aud
the small mortality shows that the disease is
losing its malignant character
In Mobile.
MOBILE Oct S.-Since last report (O,t Isl
the Board of Health report new cases Of
yellow fever and deaths, one of which was a
case previously reported. Two were of the s
reported since the let. Four new cases are
now under treatment
At Port Hudson.
PORT HUDSON. Oct. ia cases of fever
here There are but sixty persons who have
not had it.
Abatement al Canton.
CANTON, Oct. THE fever is aba.ing here,
but spreading through the country.
Aid from France.
PARIS, Oot. IN. Krantz, chief commission
er of the exhibition, has written to commits
sioner general Mccormick, offering to organize
special performance in behalf of the sufferers
from yellow fever scourge. M. Kraptz, in his
communication, says: 1--WE are DESTROYS of
showing your country that we share its SORROWS,
and of testifying to our former compatriots that
at heart we are always with Them" Mr.. Nc
Cormick replied thanking M. Krantz in the
name of the United States. The offer meets
the appreciation of the American colony, and q
fete for the benefit of the aft cted people of the
South will take place at Trocodero Palace on
the 18th inst