The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-14
YEELOW-FEVER NEWS.

YEELOW-FEVER NEWS.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Board Of Health issued circular OF
the Goth, on disinfection. They advise
thorough scrubbing and moist cleansing, to bt
followed by the fumes of burning sulphur a,
the rate of eighteen ounces per 1000 cubic
feet of space to be disinfected.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, and Vicksburg,
Miss, established quarantine against New
Orleans on the goth.
TWELVE new cases and only one
death from yellow fever in Memphis on the
Both ult. The fatal case was that # 8
man named Hatcher, who had the same
disease in 1873, and also last year, this being
the third attack.
A FIREMAN of a steamer from Ha-
vana died of yellow fever at the Quarantine
Hospital in New York on the 31st ult.
DIR. chopin stated on the 31st ult.
that there was no fear of an epidemic in New
Orleans. One case was reported on that day
at quarantine, and two suspicious cases oil
children in the city.
TWO YELLOw-FEvER patients were
sent to the New York Quarantine Hospital
on the LIST. They were from ocean steamers.
THERE we're seventeen new cases
and four deaths reported in Memphis on the
LIST. The Committee of Safety held meeting
and passed series Of resolutions relative to
the refusal of many colored peop'e to locate
in the camps outside the city. It was
claimed that no unjust discrimination was
made against the colored people. and that the
plan adopted had the approval of the State
and National Boards OF Health. There were
nearly 1000 people already in the camps.
REPORTS from Mississippi City re.
ceived in New Orleans on the I'd were to the
effect that the fever was spreading in the
former place. Four cases of yell.w fever
and three deaths had been reported in New
Orleans during the week.
ONLY one yellow-fever death (from
Memphis) occurred in Louisville during the
week ending on the I'd.
ITALIAN and Portuguese ports have
quarantined against United States shipping
because of the existence of yellow fever.
The number of fever cases reported
in Memphis during the week ending on the
% was eighty-two. Total number to same
date ZIG. and total deaths sixty-five. Twelve
new cases and two deaths were reported on
the Sd. The colored people were still opposed
to the camp system, and would not 60 out OF
the city unless forced to by the pangs of
hunger.
Two sEAMEN from q brig which
touched at Havana were admitted to the New
York Quarantine Hospital on the I'd, having
the yellow fever.
THERE were 1877 deaths from yellow
fever in Havana, Cuba, during the week end
ing on the I'd, an increase of twenty over the
previous week. The total number of yellow
fever deaths during July was $50, against 5O4
for the same month last year. Since the be-
ginning of the year So deaths had occurred,
against Sl3 for the same time last year.
A MEMPHIS refugee died in Chicago
yellow fever, but the physicians attending
him did not think it a genuine case of that
disease. The victim had "tramped" q large
part of the way from the South, and been
subject to great exposure to heat and hunger.
FIFTEEN new cases and two deaths
were reported in Memphis on the 4th. The
Chicago Tribune of the 5th contains an az peal
ITO the Citizens of the United States, ~
issued by the Memphis " Colored Citizer q Re
lief Association" dated July 80, in which
they claim that the colored people are mis-
represented; that they, as a race, are not
susceptible to yellow fever; that tie heavy
death rate among them last year was brought
about by their nursing and caring for the
white victims of the plague; that thes object
to camp life for three reasons-6rst. because
all who were susceptible to the disease already
had the germs in their systems; sec
ond, yellow-fever patients require
comfortable quarters and the most careful
nursing, which are not attainable in camps
third, "camp life will only serve in this damp
Mississippi Valley to fill us with the seeds Of
pulmonary complaints to linger with all win
ter and die in the spring." They were moi
afraid of yellow fever, but death from s!arva.
ton was staring them in the face unless they
would go to the camps. They had organized
relief associations among themselves, ani
were doing ell they could-were all poor, nc
money, no work-and In Gods name they
appealed to all for help. Nothing but
money could now reach them, aud
drafts or postofiice orders sent to any
one Of the foIlowing-named committee w0ult