The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14
YELLOW FEVER NOTES.

The news from Memphis on the 4th seemed
to give a more favorable showing. Fifteen new
reported, but of these, it is said, sew
eral have been ofseveral days standing but were
not sufficiently developed to warrant yellow
fever diagnosis. 1t seems to be also limited
that many of the cases reported are in the hands
of ambitious physicians, who administer one
dose of quinine and then skedaddle. There are
but two deaths reported the 4th, one of
them being Father Edward Doyle, aged IS, and
the other Joseph Downey, aged As. Taken
altogether, the situation presents o more hope
full appearance, and number of the towns on the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad south from
Memphis on Monday, lowered the quarantine
bars to the extent that large shipments of
goods were made in that direction. It was said
to be novel sight to see the number of loaded
drays moving down Main street.
Ex- Mayor Chas D. Jacobs, of Louisville,
has Just informed the President of the Howard
Association at Memphis, that there is yet in
his hands 1900 of the relief fund carried over
from last year, subject to their demand.
President Langstaff will draw for the amount.
Two new cases reported at New Orleans
ON the 4th--a Mrs. Robert J. Howell and her
little daughter, aged four years.
Chicago reports case, in the person of Frank
Victory, aged 81 years.
Deaths from yellow fever in Havana during
the past week were 1877, increase of twenty
over the previous week. The total number of
deaths from this dread disease during July
were 5s7, against 5O4 the same month last year.
Since the beginning of the year s57 deaths have
| occurred from this disease.
Tho 10
day are not so encouraging. Eighteen new cases
| were officially reported yesterday, and FIVE
deaths. The towns of the interior run
ming short of provisions and the poor in Mem
| phis are really suffering for want of aid. Some
of the Leading citizens have prepared circulars
addressed to the rich at watering places asking
| them to send means to aid the poor who in
actual want of food. The fever is gradually
spreading from the two infected districts, and
an increase in mortality is feared.
| AT a meeting Of the Committee of Safety
| yesterday evening it resolved that rations
and medical attention be supplied to all camps
and societies alike, provided that all moneys
or contributions received by said camps soci-
eties be turned over to the Safety Committee.
| REPORTS from New Orleans to-day declare it
free from the scourge.
| AUGUST 7.--Twenty -one new cases and three
deaths, is the report to-day. Father Fahey,
another Catholic priest, is numbered among the
dead. The prospects for decrease in the
death rate, or for the abatement of the disease,
are now very discouraging, the most sanguine
even abandoning all hope of the fever being
dispelled before the coming frost.
One of the chief annoyances to unfortunate
the lack of regulation. Application has been
made to headquarters at Washington for
a daily mail, declaring that nothing but
daily mail would satisfy the public, but a
deaf ear is turned to the appeal inasmuch the
reply states that ait (the government) will do
all it can to forward the mails when they can
be forwarded without a violation of the quaran-
tine regulations"
The Howards have added two more physi-
clans to their force.
New Orleans reports case to- day, Annie
Mahony, aged nine years.
AUGUST S.-There is one report from Mem
phis to-day to the effect that there is swindling
going on among the physicians employed by
the Towards, to two of whom the finger of sus-
picion points very strongly. 1t is said that up
to the very day the two professionals referred to
were employed by the Howards, they gave out
that there were of fever among their
patients, but from that moment forward every
sick person whom they called upon was " ter
riblc case" The belief that "somcthing is
rotten" is still further obtained in tho
fact that the ratio Of deaths compared
to the number of sick, is not great enough.
Last nights dispatches announce twenty five
new cases and six deaths. The Towards are
working nobly, and daily add to their force from
, twenty five to thirty new nurses. The Odd