The New York herald., 1879-09-30
A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK
Only One Death from Yellow Fever Ii
Memphis Yesterday.
DECREASING NUMBER OF PATIENTS
Difficulties in the Way Of Destroying In.
feeicd Bedding and Clothing.
[BY TrLEoRApH TO THE HEnALp.l

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Sept. -, 1879
Nine new cases of yellow fever reported h
the Board OF Health to-day, five Of whom wer
colored. The following are the whites:
Lizzie Cash. aged s =. Sxty-fourth street.
A. 7. Bell. aged 27. of Third and Conse
streets.
Miss Ena Murray, aged %. No. 4S6 Vance street.
Hugo Loudon aged rs. City Hospital.
The following whites were supplied with nurses
to-day by the Howard Association
Wash Bless, aged %. No. III Main street
John Merrens aged 35. No. A Robinson street.
James Rice, aged 49, No. &C Poplar street.
Mrs. Caroline Glenn. aged 62. Horn Lake road.
Only one death has been reported for the past
twerty-four hours, viz. FRANK GOLDCAMP. aged
II. No. &C Jackson street.
or the sick. Mrs. j. S. Prestidge is much better.
Miss Eva Murray, whose name appears on the list
of new cases, is the daughter Of Mr.. Alexander MUIR
ray, of Murray 4 Ridgely. merchant tailors. She
has been quite i'll for several days, but is
rapidly convalescng. Her friends did not wish to
alarm her parents. who absent from the city, SO
that her name reported to the Board Of
Health until this morning.
DIR. Heber Jones reports the convaescence of Mrs.
Alice Rotwett. who had black vomit for forty-eight
hours.
Mrs. D. F. Jackson, wife of the Health Officer. IL
able to be up. She had quite a severe attack.
The donations to the Howards to-day were as fol-
Proceeds of o concert at vicksburg. Miss. per
Morris Iouoe..
Riggs Co., Washingto ID. .C................. 100
Proceeds OF an entertainment at Fulton, No..
per Miss Ell en- Martin 5S
Citizens OF Colerville, Tenn. 80
A lady. Savannah, Ga. Ga.........................
Citizens OF Jackson, Tenn. Observation-Disclosures. Is
J. NJ. Stewart. Cowan. Tenn. 10
IL.
Total .192
The Knights of Honor have six patients OF their
list. Mrs. J. D. Stewart and Miss Carrie Walbrecht
are in critical condition. william Crone. A. Bier
man. Mrs. Ida Berman and Mrs. Caster con-
valescing.
STRINGENT REGULATIONS.
On account of the development Of several new
of fever in the country adjacent to Memphis.
the following Instructions received by Mr.. johnson
tonight. will be put in execution tomorrow
NASHVILLE. Tenn. Sept. 29 1879.
To the Hon. JOHN JOHNSON, Superintendent Quaran-
The creates: vigilance is now necessary to pre-
vent the spread OF the pestilence into tho country
No. Of the instructions to be observed by pckets
and patrols as to read as follows:-
Parties residing beyond the picket lines are hereby
warned against the great danger they would incur
by coming within the city limits and precaution
to prevent the further spread OF the disease into
the country such persons will not be permitted to
pass the picket lines without special permit from
the Superintendent of Quarantine. Such special
permits will be granted only in cases OF urgent neces
sity. j. d. PLUNkEf,
President State Board OF Health
The house Of Captain Berkshire. some four milea
out on tho Poplar Boulevard, while undergoing
fumigation last Saturday morning. caught fire from
tho explosion Of chemicals and destroyed. to.
gether with it's contents. The family were absent
and the house being prepared for reoccupying.
The loss is said to be about $500.
The work Of disinfecting dwellings, where fever
remains but obstacle to thorough disinfection.
In and about very many premises there Is infected
bedding whose owners cannot afford to have 1t de-
stroyed without compensation. 1t is generally
owned by poor people who have had the fever and
who do not fear second attack. Only to-day
the sanitary officers were prevented from removing
the contents of a room where patient had died.
the owner declaring his purpose of defending his
property unless he reimbursed for the loss he
would sustain by having ii cremated. If the National
Board of Health could consistently appropriate
$4,000 $4,000 to be expended in having all such
infected articles burned. it would be doing moro
toward destroying of infection and nsuring
gested- Several instances have occurred this year
where the fever was directly traceable to infected
bedding and clothes which had been exposed to the
epidemic of last year.
The thermometer to-day has ranged between q
and 50 degrees