The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-08-07

The ship Templar arrived at San Francisco
July 81, one hundred and sixty-one days from
Rio Janeiro, where she put in for repairs. On
the voyage out from New York, while in Rio,
the Captain took the yellow fever, but recov.
cred. Nine of the seamen died in port from
the disease. The first day after leaving Rio
the fever reappenred. The wife of Captain
Armstrong, and Harry Cave and Michael
Walsh, seamen, died, and Captain Armstrong,
his daughter, the ships carpenter and several
sailors were taken down. Captain Armstrong
is still ill, and several Of the crew are not fully
recovered. Quarantine officers took charge of
the vessel, destroyed the bedding and carpets,
disinfected the ship, and took her to quarantine.
There has not been any new case of fever on
board for three months.
Trains have been stopped on the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad. The city of Memphis
is now completely isolated.
There were eighty-three cases and twenty
six deaths at Memphis during the week ending
Saturday, August 2.
Notwithstanding the terrible desolntion "fol-
lowing in the wake of grim death, :" the authori-
ties at Memphis have declared the yellow fever
as not epidemic. During the week ending with
August 2, there were forty-four deaths, and of
these but twenty-six are charged to yellow fever,
' and hence this seemingly singular declaration.
1t is believed that the majority of cases Of
fever this year are the result of wearing cloth
ing infected with the disease. The victims
thus far seem to be those belonging to families
who were stricken with the disease a yenr ago.
Out of 216 cases of yellow fever in Memphis
this year, there have been "a deaths.
A telegram from New Orleans says that at
the meeting of the Sanitary Association last
Saturday, Sanitary Director White officially re-
ported the total deaths for the week as 81, di-
vided as follows: Malarial fever, Z; TYPHOID
fever 8 !; yellow fever, 3 and four cases of yell
low fever. Two of these are Mrs. Robert
Howell and her three-year old son, who reside
at 119 Washington street. The latter were
visited by DIR. Chappen who pronounced it yell
low fever.
All river trade is stopped at Memphis.
The Quarantine Hospital at New York re-
ceived two more new cases of yellow fever last
Saturday. Bartholomew MeKeon and A. V.
Reith, of the steamer Merida, died of the dis
ease Saturday.
New York has quarantined against Southern
vessels.
All the arms and ammunition at Memphis
have been collected from the gun stores and
placed in the arsenal at the station house.
The knights of Honor at Memphis have
abolished the use of all kinds ofliquor as stimu-
lants except upon the order of a physician.
They are paying two dollars per visit to ply
sicians.
A special to the Cincinnati Commercial from
New Orleans, dated August 8, says that the
stringent sanitary measures adopted by the
Board of Health of that city has, to all appear
ances, checked the disease, no new cases having
been reported for a period of four days.
The death rate to date from the fever has
been 33M per cont.
The wife of Chief of Police Athey, of Mem
phis, is convalescing.
There were services in but ono church in
Memphis on Sunday, the Sd inst.
The Towards have eighty nurses on duty.