The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

Fellows and Masons are expendipg their
forces among the unfortunate of their respective
orders. The same may be said of the Knights
of Honor.
Three thousand people are now drawing
rations.
Two OF three cases are reported from St.
Louis. Fs' III
New Orleans furnishes still another case to-
day. s.s...-- -r-.+ ... -...... ...
AUGUST 9.-Reports from fever-stricken
Memphis are daily growing gloomier and all
hope of the abatement of the disease before the
November frosts have been ooandoned f" Thirty
new cases and eight deaths +" is the way the
dispatches read to-day. steady drizzing
rain yesterday with the weather much cooler
seems to have added new fuel to the scourge.
Mckenzie, a neighboring town, has thrown
open her doors and invites fleeing humanity to
seek refuge in her midst.
While the number of colored people afflicted
compared to the number of whites are in the
ratio of perhaps two to one, il is a notable fact
that the colored nurses refuse to attend their
own race under any circumstances. This is
one of the chief difficulties the Towards arc
now encountering. "f''A1 ts1'~ ei 90
President Plueket, of the State Board of
Health, at Nashville, yesterday received dis
patch from John johnson, Superintendent Of
Quarantine at Memphis, announcing that the
local board of Memphis would to-day
declare the fever epidemic, and warn all alb
sentees against returning to the city. "
John johnson, Superintendent of tie Board
of Health at Memphis, issued order that
"until further orders, all are hereby instructed
not to permit persons to be landed from boat or
other water craft at this port who have not had
the yellow fever, and, in addition, cannot give
satisfactory assurances that they aSe liable to
provide for themselves. The restrictions also
apply to all railroads leading into the city of
Memphis" ~ ..-... q. ..- 81. F- q .re.
The above order is addressed to inspectors
and police officers duty in Memphis.
And still another case from New Orleans
Of seventy-five deaths in Hayti, eleven wero
Americans. tfs .-H
AUGUST 1o.--The Board of Health of Mem
phis yesterday declared the fever epidemic, and
renewed effort will be made to check the ter
rible march of the disease. The number of
new cases were twenty y-one, and SIX deaths.
In addition to this there were eighteen new
cases not officially reported in in all, thirty
nine cases. The Howard Association have
under their charge 146 sick of these, 100 are
white. They have 139 nurses op duty. At a
meeting of pr minent citizens he'd yesterday
afternoon, DIR. Jerome Cochrane, representative
of the National Board of Health, submitted
q letter which had been written to DIR. S. J.
Turner, Secretary of the National Board,
| in which he recommends: First, that
the work of removing the un-
acclimated population be continued until nc
| fuel is left here to feed the epidemic second
| the removal of the sick as far as possible, tc
camp hospitals outsid the city limits third
the isolation, as far possible, infected per
| sons and places within the ty; fourth, the
| disinfection, as far as our existing knowledge
makes it possible, of infected clothing, bedding
and dwellings. By resolution, these sugges-
tions were adopted.
AUGUST 11.--Twenty- mine new cases ant
twelve deaths yesterday at Memphis, and thu
day reported to be decidedly gloomy one
with nothing of interest to add except thu
steady march of the disease and the slow bu
steady increase of mortality. TIE Howard.
added two more physicians to their list, nov
making eight in all. " .
| Nineteen business houses in st. Louis sends
81, ,555 to the fever stricken city of Memphis.