Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-01
YELLOW FEVER ITEMS.


The Little Rock Board of Health declare
that no mail matter from St. Louis will be al
lowed to be taken from the cars, or the agents
handling it to stay at Little Rock.
One case of yellow fever was reported at
Shelbyville, Tenn, and two at Louisville, KY,
on the 22d. All of the parties were refugees
from Memphis.
Six deaths from yellow fever occurred at
Memphis on the 22d. Seven new cases were
reported. The Howard Association held a
meeting and detailed two of their members to
ascertain from the physicians where nurses are
required, which will be furnished; but the
organization as whole will not begin opera
tions.
Nineteen new cases of fever and three deaths
| -oPa-taa +ha No. --hi~ Roard of
Health on the 23d. Every station along the
line of the Mississippi 81 Tennessee Railroad
between Memphis and Grenada having
quarantined against the city, no more trains
win be sent out on that line until the fever
disappears.
| A Memphis refugee, who arrived at Cincin-
nati on the 10Th, died of yellow fever on the
oath.
At Memphis, on the oath, five deaths and
eighteen new cases were reported. People
were stil leaving the city. The colored peo-
Pile object to being forced out Of the city OF
removed to camps. A meeting was held at
which resolutions were adopted protesting
against the scheme.
For the twenty-four hours ending at six p
m. on the 25th, ten deaths from yellow fever
and eleven cases were reported to the Board
of Health at Memphis. Two colored military
companies have been placed on duty to main
tain order.
The Mayor of st. Louis, on the 25th, tele,
graphed the National Board of Health that
yellow fever refugees from Memphis were
arriving in such large numbers that the estab
lishment OF a quarantine camp would become
necessary. He asks that tents and rations fol-
1000 persons for thirty days be forwarded al
once.
At Hickman, Ky, on the 25th, citizen oi
Memphis, who came up the river on steam
er, succeeded in eluding the vigilant guard'
of the town and went ashore. The citizent
soon spied him, however, and with shot guns
they drove him to the woods
The Executive Committee, appointed by the
General Committee of Safety at Memphis
issued an address on the 9th, calling upor
their fellow citizens for moral and mate
| ilhA AhSJ OhO anu dll u
protect the good name OF. the city
from the possible mputatioh of being
a community of beggars on the worlt
at large, sitting idly down and expecting
others to take care of their interests and fee(
their poor. The committee state that If thu
good men of Memphis will do their Who'll,
duty, and with economy, honesty and thorough
system in management, they hope, earnestly
not to be compelled to ask charity of th
world. Fourteen new cases and nine death
were reported to the Board of Health.
The Secretary of War has notified the Pres
ident of the Memphis Board of Health tina
rations will only be furnished to persons sicl
with yellow fever or in quarantine camp an,
who cannot be subsisted In any other way.
The New Orleans Board of Health reportet
fatal case of yellow fever in that city on tn
2Sth. There were no other cases in tn
city. The Sanitary Association were disin
fecting the city.
at Memphis, on the 2Sth, thirteen new case
| and two deaths were reported. A census O
the city showed the population of the city t
be 16, 1lO whites, 4,2SS colored, S,743 of whor
have had the fever, leaving 1857 susceptible
of the disease.