The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-21
An Official Announcement by the Mem
phfs Board Of Health.

The Memphis Board of Health made
the following official announcement on
the 10th relative to the yellow fever in
that city:
The Board of Health being informed that
there is disposition manifested on the part
of some absentees from Memphis to return
sooner than it would be advisable, and, as
this disposition may be increased, it deems
best to submit the following statement in re-
gard TO the prevalence and spread of yellow
fever in the city. Though the death rate
from yellow fever up to August 2, the date
Of the last reg uiar weekly report, exceeded
the deaths from all other causes by few,
but being less than that of the week pre-
vious the Board of Health was encouraged
Der for any week during the prevalence
OF the. disease, and as no practical
good, it was thought, would result
from the formal announcement of the
epidemic, 1t declined to make such
announcement. At that time, August 2, it
prevailed mostly in the nei !hborhood where
the first cases occurred in July, in the south
ern portion OF the city, in the Fifth and in q
POI ton Of the Seventh and Tenth Wards, and
IN the rtheastern portion of the CITY, in the
Eighth Ward, and could not be considered
epidemic be, ond those limits. During the
last ten days it has extended beyond these
limits, where it was hoped to be confined,
and cases have been reported. Deaths have
occurred in SO many different localities of
the city that it is now impossible to say what
portion is not infected. Therefore the Board
of Health makes formal declaration of q
general epidemic.
The death-rate is small in proportion to the
number of cases reported, and there are good
reasons to hope that it will not exceed, if it
again reaches, the present weeks mortality
during the prevalence of the disease. These
reasons are: Some escape in every epidemic,
M holm 1ioh1o f<>6 hat
We do not know. Many of those who
remain are protected by previous at
tack, and it is reasonable to assume
that many who contract the disease
will recover; that large proportion of our
population who are liable to diseases have
left the city, and the work of depopulation is
still in progress, which should be, no doubt
will be, continued, unless free subsistence is
supplied in the city, which would not only
have the effect to prevent some from getting
into CAMPS, where such provision is made,
but would induce others to come into the
ing the disease to localities now free from in
fiction.
Therefore, in view of these facts, we are in
duced to believe, although the disease is Liza
BILE to be here until frost, the rate of mortality
will not exceed, If it equals, its present num-
Der for any one week in the future. Every
practicable means of disinfection and local
sanitation calculated to arrest the disease has
been, and is now being, practiced. In this
work the Board Of Health has the active CO
Boards of Health, through their respective
representatives, DIR. r W. Mitchell, of the
former, and the Hon. John johnson, of the
latter.
Following is the number of deaths from yell
low fever since its appearance, as reported to
this office: For the week erding July 10, 8;
for the week ending July 10, 6; for the week
ending July Is, "a; for the week ending Au-
gust Q, 8; for the week ending AUGUST 9, 20.
Total humber of deaths to date. 81. As is
customary, the Board of Health will announce
officially throu-h the papers when 1t is
thought safe for absentees to return.
g. B. THORNTON, NJ. D.,
President of the BOar1 Of Health.