Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-19
THE YELLOW FEVER.
THE SITUATION AT MEMPHIS I'M
PROVED.
Oiminution in the Number Of New Cases
Thirteen in All Reported Yesterday
Rules Of the State
Board of Health.

MEMPHIS, August lS.-Eightnew cases
were reported to the Board OF Health up
to noon-six white and two cOlored.
Among the number are I. ii. Haynes,
Cordelia Atwoon, William freeman and
Julia Zeeler. Five deaths have oc-
Cured, among them A. L. White, W. G.
Nelson and w. G. Franklin, the last
named colored. General Joseph S.
Skeffinton, prominent criminal lawyer,
was Frustrated this morning. His case
is considered fatal. The weather is
growing warmer.
MEMPHIS. August 1S.-Miss Birdie
Goff, eldest daughter OF A. l.. Gof,
ticket agent at Whitehaven, Tenn, was
attacked with fever at noon to-day.
DIR. X. w. Mitchell, who returned from
Bartlett tonight, reports a negro sick
with the fever near there. His in
fection can be traced to this city.
MEMPHIS, August lS.-Thirteen cases
in all were reported to the Board Of
Health to-day, six of whom were color
ed. Two additional deaths have oc-
Cured, VIM. Costello and Critic Salvet-
to. ThOs. III. Cooke, a well known citi-
zen, was stricken at noon, also j. G..
Hook. a printer at the Appeal Office.
Mrs. Van Anderson and daughter are
down with the fever, four and half
miles distant from the city, on Poplar
Street Boulevard. The lady is the
daughter OF ex-Gov. Jones, of Tennes-
see. The State Board of Health officials,
tomorrow, begin the isolation OF dwell
inys where the fever exists. Guards
will be placed to prohibit communlca-
tion with the inmates. DR.. Jerome
CJchrane left at noon for Mobile.
Nashville.
NASHVILLE, August lS.-Nonew cases
have been reported to-day, and no
deaths have been reported to the Board
of health to-day.
Rules of the State Board of Health.
NASHVILLE, August lS.-At the night
session of the State Board Of Health
the following rules were adopted:
/. A house infected with the yellow
fever shall be designated with yellow
flag.
>. No person shall be permitted to
enter house infected with yellow fever
except physician, clergyman and such
nurses and attendants as are necessary
for the care OF the sick.
3. No person except the physician
and clergyman shall be permitted to
leave an infected house without
the permission, in writing, OF the
superintendent of quarantine, they
having first complied with such
methods of disinfection as may have
been prescribed by him.
1. Physicians and clergymen may en-
ter and retire from the apartment OF the
sick of yellow fever at all hours, pro-
yided, however, they shall not enter
non-infected houses, carriages, cars or
other public places of resort, until their
persons and apparel have been thor
oughly disinfected.
). Public assemblies of all kinds are
prohibited in any place dangerously in
fected with yellow fever, and the super
intendent OF quarantine is charged with
the rigid enforcement of this rule.
6. From the hour of 9 O'Clock p. NJ.
uulll Illc llDut VI " ClONh n. u, Ns'h
and all persons not engaged in the care
of sick or in the execution OF their duties
as officers of the law shall remain at
their homes on their respective prem
ises, unless by permission OF the Super
intendent of quarantine.
President Plunkett received a dis
patch tonight from John Johnson, SUI
perintendent of quarantine at Memphis,
saying: 81 find, this morning, num-
her of parties returning to the city in
violation OF our rules. wish the State
Board to pass formally rule or regula-
ton positively forbidding all parties
from entering Memphis without the
permission of the State Board is first
had and obtained through its represen-
tatives in Memphis.