Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-09-16
TELEGRAPHIC.
YELLOW FEVER RECORD.
Not Much Sign of Abatement Of
the Memphis Plague. u
Thirteen New Cases and Seven
Deaths Up to Noon Yesterday.
asj.iuaE I-EFItI oLa 2a3T3.
Weather Clear and Cool and the
Thermometer Dropping, r.

Thirteen new cases were reported
this morning, among the number
are John DeVot, John Leger, Mrs.
Tom. O'Dannell, two children of
Rev. J..J. Peroz Jewish divine.
Seven deaths have occurred since
last night, among them Timoahy
Keefer, policeman, CARROT
Devica, and Nancy Palver white. J
The weather. is clear and cool, the
thermometer last night dropping to
81.
Special to Nashville American.
MEMPB1s, Sept. 12.-The sum
mary of the week just closed shows
that there have been 1872 new cases
reported to the Board of Health, of
whom 81 were white and 70 colored;
under FIVE years of age, 6. The
total number reported to the Board
of Health to date, is 1,136. The
distribution of cases for the past
week is as follows First ward,
Ia; Second ward, 10; Third ward,
4; Fourth ward, 10; Fifth ward, 10;
Sixth ward, 8; Seventh ward, 80;
Eighth ward, 7; Ninth ward, 80.
This showing indicates that the
fever is raging with more violence
in the southern than any other por-
ton Of the city, nearly half the
entire number Of cases being re-
ported from the Seventh and Tenth
! wards. The total number of deaths
from yellow fever, reported for the
week, aggregates 48-whites, 81;
ca'ofed, l6. Six deaths from other
causes are also reported. Twenty.
three cases were reported to day, 13
OF whom were colored. The follow
ing are the whites
George Doubleday, aged 20,
Fred. Deidrich, aged 40; 6. Deuries,
aged SO; Moss Furr, aged 8; J. j..
Sharp, aged rs; Blanche Gilmore,
aged %; Hannah O'Brien. aged As;
G. w. Sperry, aged 81; G. B.
Mahaffey, aged 80; Charles, War
den, aged 3S.
Nurses were supplied to-day by
che Howards to the following
whites s9L%8 @
Edward Case, aged 49; Pat Mann,
aged 80, Mrs. Luccarien, aged 80.
The death list is as follows:
George N. Payne, aged 80, SO
Adams street; Joseph Dargis, aged
3; 211 Carolina street; Frank An
derson, colored, aged 33, 81 Main
/ S 'ee'; Fanny Robinson, aged 80,
! City Hospital.
The weekly report of the How
;,cd Association shows that they
have 178 nurses on duty, attending
118 white and so colored patients.
5 Special to the Courier j Journal
MEMeH1s, Sept. 12.-Another
Phclea2e in both new cases and
dc ,sths comes in the reports, official
and unoficial, tosday.s There are
twea5y~seyen new cases, embracing
the following white persons; Kate
Bu ae, Robert Morgan, Barbara
>Axtman, Willie Biglow, Mary
Dargis, Carrie Sneed, Mollie Mad>
den, Perry D. Harrison, Claude B.
Prestidge, Henry Durham, Mary
! { y. Ii. III. Ennis, Richard Sharp
I; I'd Ms Hannah O'BYien. ~
The. Unds takers report eleven
de tbs, inciading the following
whites: Carl Valandre, Thomas
WaFd, W. H. Hammer, ]. P. Plagid,
Mary D. Lee, VIM. E. Lee, w. N.
Wood and Mrs. E. G. Baxter.
Rev. Father VIM. Walsh, in
charge OF Father Matthew Catholic
camp, is reported seriously i'll. but
not of yellow fever. Father Walsh
came from Europe to Memphis, on
hearing of the reappearanee of the
fever, and has also been laboring
arduously in caring for the people
OF his faith.
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