New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-29
THE FEVER IN FOUR CITIES.


,,>,er-e or vrNpHTs TAKEN AND CAMP ESTAB-
,,surn-A DEATH IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
IN OTHER PLACES.
MEMPHIS Tenn, July 2s.-Thrteen additional
,aes of fever were reported to the Board OF Health
today. Six of the victims are negroes. There
ware two deaths from fever, one of which was be-
Eond city limits.
The specal policemen detailed to take the city
,ensus completed their task to-day They report
the population of Memphis at 16,11o-whites'
42s8; negroes, 1897; adults, 1861 children
b459 OF these, s. 743 have had the fever, leaving
1867 susceptible to disease.
Failing to secure transportation to the site Sc
lected for the establishment of camp the Padu-
cab Railroad, Colonel John F. Cameron, at . p. M,
with detail of sixteen colored soldiers, took pas
sage on train supplied. by Superintendent
Burke. Of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railway,
and established a camp five miles south of the city,
half mile below the site of Camp Joe Williams
last year. Tents were taken along, and by morning
the detail will have fifty tents ready for occupa-
tiOn.
The Secretary ofSNar has telegrsphed d. I. Por-
ter chief executive Of the city, that ratioDs will be
furnished only to those sick with yellow fever or IN
camps.
A. D. LanrstefI, president, and General W. j.
Smith. vice-president of the Howard Association,
have been added to the executive committee on
the Committee of Safety.
A detail of twenty-five men from a cOlored mill
tary company has been made to do police duty dur
Ing the day, as the entire strength of the regular
police force has been assigned TO night service. 1t
has been raining steadily to-day since daylight.
DR.. Samuel j. Fox. of Ennis. Texas, arrived this
morning. He will be sent out of the city tonight
by order of John Johnston, superintendent of quar-
4
ors at quarantine stations have been instructed not
to permit unacclimated people to enter the city.
KEw-ORLEANs, July 2s.-rhe Board of Health
reports one death from yellow fever in this city
last night that of an Italian girl at the of
Second and Constance-sts One other case was re-
ported this morning In the neigh borhood. The
case of Vinceuza SpanO the Italian girl attracted at
tentIon here on Saturday, and Drs. Bemlss, White,
Bailey and Holt visited the patient. All united IN
the opinion that the disease was sporadic case OF
yellow fever, the first case that has occurred this
Season. A member of the Board of Health at once
sent nurse who remained with the girl until at
a. m today, size died. The Spano family have been
here two yeaTs, but last summer at the breaking
out of the fever, removed 10 CarrOlton, and the
house remained closed during the entire season.
The family moved to-day to another house, the
Board of Health destroying all the bedding, etc,
and fUmgatiug the premises, Which were very
filthy The entire neighbOrhOod for four squares
around has been diSnfected with zinc ana non:
The auxiliary sanitary ASSOCIATION and the Board OF
prevent the spread of the disease. The former as
ISOLATION, ia accordance with resolutions adopted
last week, to-day began the work of disjnfecting
the city. They BEGAN on the river front with
large force and will continue until the work is COM
pletcd.
CINCINSAT1, July 2S.-" Chris" Myers, thirty
seven years old, who left Memphis few days ago,
called on the Health Officer this afternoon and
stated that no believed that yellow fever had at
lacked him. After au examination the officer sent
him 10 the hospital as a suspicious case,
LOUISVILLE XIV. July 2S.-MrS POmerOy, who
with her chld was removed from Preston-st; to the
hospital last week, died last night. The child, also
suffering from yellow fever is doing well. Tney
arrived from Memphis only the day before they
were removed to the hospital. The death of Mrs.
Pomeroy is the third that has occurred here this
year from the fever and the first at the Yellow
Feye Hospital All of the cases were imported
from Memphis. There has been 10 local case this
year,
MANCHESTER n. H., July 2s.-An announcement
IN the local papers that person lately arrived from
the South bad been stricken with yellow fever
created considerable excitement here this evening;
but the Board of Health has no information to JUS
ffV the reuOrt.