New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-25
THE FEVER OF A MILD TYPE.

cpp1T MANY NKw CASES, But ONLY A FEW
nr,Tus-rHE MALADY APPEARS IN TWO MORE
PLACES.
MrwpHIs Tenn, July 2f.-Elghteen new cases
of yellow fever and five deaths were reported 10
m, Board OF Health to-day
The Howard Association yesterday placed about
Cen nurses on duty and this morning the street
\, front of the rooms was crowded by colored peo-
No oil anxious 20 be assigned to duty. They DIS
norsed on being informed that no more nurses are
required. r
The authorities experience great difficulty IN
finding means Transportation to the site which has
baen selected for the erection of camps. Suporn-
londent Monslrrat, of the Psducah Railroad re-
Tnsss to supply cars, fearing the indignant citizens
ill destroy the track. There is also sentiment
among the majority of the colored people against
hang forced from the city or removed to camps
A. meetiug held by them last night, resolutions
rrotesting against the scheme were adopted. Five
hundred people left the city to-day, OF whom 20o
took MASSAGE in the steamer Ouachita Belle for ST.
Jonis Two carloads OF Government tents have
arrived. and the camp will be established to-
morrow. seven miles from town on the Paducah
Railroad
Three cases of yellow fever are reported at Bon
hona Springs, Tennessee. 10 which point many
Memphis people fed. Among others IS Lieutenant
Robert DOWdy, y. ,. A., VINO Is no" uV"H WIN '-0
fever.
A dispatch sent to Cincinnati states that numcr-
pms rough-looling plantation hands continue to
arrive in the city in search of free ratiOns and adj
Tices from plantations twenty miles away report
that the negroes are openly saying they will so TO
Memphis to plumber and enrich themselves From
The present outlook it is doubtful il there Will be
,bled-bodied men enough in the city 10 protect
property against pllagers, Very lew OF those who
remained through last years siege are TO be seen IN
The city now.
Is only 90. IL is known that others lex nave NOT
beeu Included owing to the milluuss OF the alta K.
r. generally believed that all liable 10 the ma3dy
will suffer before the Summer ends, but the lndca-
lions are that the fever will lie of less violent type
han any heretofore experienced. In several tam
lies where all have been down none have died.
WASHINGTON, July 24.-Telegams received by
he National Board of Health to-day announce five
Eases of yellow fever and one death at Mississippi
City. The latter point Is reported as isolated and
DO danger of the disease spreading
NEWT ORLEANS, July 24-Dr. fitzpatrick. sanitary
Inspector of the National Board of Health, tee-
Eraphed this afternoon from Mississippi City, 30 DR..
bemiSs, that the IN the Cree family were yell
low fever. One Of the patients died at O'CLOCK
tins morning, and q post norton examination in
acated yellow fever as the cause OF death,
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 24.-Miss Essing, a re-
tugee from Memphis. who had been in this city for
nearly q week died of yellow fever ut the house of
friends this forenoon. hers was one or three III
ported cases and was the second which terminated
fatally. The third case Is that OF hr. faradose.
who Is doing well.
CINCINNATI, July 24.-Joseph Hook, Memphis
refugee who arrived here on Saturday last, died
to-day of yellow fever.