The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-31
yellow Fever Notes.


The Health Commissioner, of St. Louis, sen !
notices to the agents of all transportation lines
southwark, July 81, that no Memphis freight
must be brought into the city. The Health
Commissioner has larger powers than last year.
He can now take sick persons and transport
them from any place in the city to another
place, if in bis opinion the health of the city
demands 1t.
The announcement of thirty-si III new cases on
a third panic in Memphis, and from every d.
rection Of the city could be seen men, women,
and children, white and colored, all stricken
with deadly fright, hurrying to the depots.
Hacks and wagons, express and handcarts,
and every conceivable means of transportation
were brought into requisition, even the heads
and shoulders of staIwart and unterrifed
colored giants, anything and everything
TO get to the depot out of reach of the dreadful
disease. The fever is now scattered over the
city, and the indications are before the week is
ended there will be no section Of the city with
out its quota of sickness. The doctors still
maintain that the disease is of q mild
type of yelow fever, while others
contend it Is something else. The
Memphis Euening Ledger has reduced its
size one-half, with only six compositors in the
composing room. The Euening Herald has
ceased publication.
A Louisville dispatch Of the 21st says: Gov
ernor McCreary has called a meeting of the
State Board of Health, to be held in Frankfort,
July "a. The meeting is to consider matters
/ pertaining to the possible invasion of Ken
lucky by the yellow fever. The quarantine
here against Memphis is a not a very rigid one.
Healthy persons, and baggage, etc., not in
fected, viii be allowed to pass after inspection.
From st. Louis, the 21st, we learn that
refugees from Memphis arrive in the city by
hundreds daily, and nearly a score of Memphis
establishing themselves in st. Louis. The
feeling here IN favor of o strict quarantine is
very strong, and the officials are directed to be
vigorous in looking out for any goods from
Memphis which an attempt may be made to
bring here. Memphis people arriving here to-
day express no longer q belief that their city
can escape a terrible season.
L 0SNOA hSWA OuoOo 0A0 v N0eho WV
ported at Memphis on the 22d of July. The
progress of the disease is slow, but it is only for
the lack of material. Several of the editors of
| the Avalanche have gone away for the season.
The gamblers have closed up their bells, and
are making their way elsewhere with their
gripsacks in hand. The death of Mr..
Thomas P. Herman occurred at his residence
- cIo,E tbroa ogoIooL fh;n
morning, and the remains were inferred at ELM
wood Cemetery. Mr.. Herman was well known
in steamboat and railroad circles by having
been engaged in the passenger agency for more
than twenty years past. Mr.. Herman leaves
an estate valued at about thirty thousand dol
lars. It is estimated that not more than five
thousand people liable to yellow fever now re-
main in the city, and they are rapidly de-
parting.
Shelbyyille and Martin, Tenn, it is re-
ported, have suspicious cases of sickness, said
to be yellow fever.
The Health Officers discovered two cases Of
yellow fever in Louisville on the 22d, both Of
which were brought from Memphis. Mrs.
Samuel Eckcrs, wife of the banker WHIT died in
Memphis several days since, and who came to
Louisville on Sunday, was taken ill at the resi-
dence of a friend on Storey avenue, in the east
ern part of the city. The other case is that of q
Mrs. Essing, also a refugee from Memphis,
residing with q relative on Portland-ayenue.
Both cases were of a mild type, and there was
no excitement over the discovery. There were
no cases oflocal origin in the city.
In connection with the yellow fever epidemic
some historical researches by DR.. Drake have
been referred at Washington which will be Of
special interest just now. DR.. Drake fixes
limit to the fever at four hundred feet in the
United States. Fort Smith, in Arkansas, foul
hundred and sixty feet above the sea, is tn,
highest point at which there has been an cpl.
demic. This was in 1928. Cases were reported
at Winchester, Va, seven hundred feet abov,
the sea, in 1902, but in this instance it is not 4
well authenticated epidemic. A chart giving
the points at which yellow fever has beer
treated, with altitude of the localities, show.
that it has been at st. Louis, four hundred and
seventy-fve feet; Louisville, four hundred anc
fifty Cincinnati, I've hundred and fifty Cali,
polls, Ohio, five hundred and twenty, and Bale
Valley, Pennsylvania, FIVE hundred feel
above the sea. These, with Winchester
are the highest points it has ever reached
yet the history of the fever at these place
proves that it did not obtain as an epidemic, ant
that no new cases were developed, the ones re
corded being those brought from lower eleva
tons. Memphis is two hundred and sixty ant
Yicksburg one hundred and seventy-fve fee
above the sea. During the last one hundret
years there have been epidemics along the At.
lantic seaboard as far north as Portsmouth
New Hampshire, but all the points at which i
has appeared on the coast and back in tn
country arc less than two hundred feet abov'