Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-09-02
TELEGRAPHlC.
YELLOW FEVER RECORD.
Steady and Continued Progress of
the Yellow Plague at
Memphis.
Sixteen New Gases and Eight
Deaths Reported Yesterday.
A Cheerful Statement Of the Stu
alton in New Orleans.
Another Case Reported at Guar
antine at New York.
A Fresh Review Of the Sprague-
Conkling Scandal.
YELLOW FEVER.

mEMfElS, DepC. 1.-EISnI uoW
cases, seven white and one colored,
were reported this morning. Among
the number are, Morton McHugh,
Mrs. Matte Dean, Jack Wright,
Louis Smith and Mary M. Beattie.
-Four deaths occurred since last
night, Ada Hurst, Louis NJ. Kirk
land, Ella Arnold and Jas. Mead.
A. D. Langstaff, President of the
Howard Association, left this morn
ing. He will visit the principal
cities of the North, East and West,
in the interest of the Association,
to consult with those parties who so
nobly aided in soliciting contribu-
tions for the relief of the yellow
fever sufferers at Memphis last year.
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 81
A paper signed by G.. B. White,
Sanitary Director, and Edward
Fenner, Vice President of the Sani-
tary Auxiliary Association,
and approved by DR.. Bemis, of
the National Board of Health,
says: Correct information may
take the place of idle and extrava-
CANT rumors. We give the follow
ing list, all the cases of yellow fe-
yer that have occurred, beginning
with the first one landed here.
Here follows a list of
names and dates, as heretofore
telegraphed, showing that seven
teen cases have occurred,
of which seven recovered, six died
and four are under treatment. The
first case appeared July 22nd and
the last Edith Hood August 29th.
Fifteen of these cases occurred in
eleven houses in a parallelogram of
three blocks by six. One of the
other two cases, the genuineness Of
which, after examination, was
doubted by very high medical au-
thority, lived in the outskirts of the
city, in close proximity to the
swamps. The other was an i'm
ported case from Morgan city.
After referring to various sanitary
measures adopted by the Board Of
Health and Sanitary Auxiliary AS
sociation, and the relief offered by
the National Board of Health,i it con,
cludes /" Having reached Septem>
ber under these favorable circum-
stances it is reasonable to expect
that the cool winds and dry weather
proper to this month will continue
the present general excellent health
and ere long Danish apprehensions
only felt by distant communities"
New YORK, Sept. 1.-Another
case of yellow fever was reported
at quarantine yesterday. The sick
man was the keeper, named Jos.
Kirby, on the Haytian schooner
Clothllda, who had been seLt from
the United States Marshars Office,
In this office. 1t is said he is in a
bad condition.
| LATER.-Sixteen cases in all
thirteen white and three colored-
were reported to-day. Four ad-
ditional interments have been re-
ported by the undertakers, as fol-
lows: Walter r. Lucas, VIM. FL.
West, Mrs. w. G. Richardson and
David P. House. The city is being
thorougly disinfected, under the di-
rection of the State Board of Health
officials.
DR.. John Gordon, the physician
sent by the Howards to Julian Bed
ford, at Baileystown, returned this
afternoon, and report him down
with a genuine case of yellow fever.
w. A. Joyce, book-keeper at the
Western Union Telegraph Office in
this city, was stricken at noon.
The Howard's placed thirty ad-
ditional nurses on duty to-day. The
weather is cloudy. The thermome,
ter has ranged between 68 and so
to-day.
Gen. Hoods seven years old
daughter is improving. His son,
aged eight years, was taken with
fever yesterday. Alice Williams,
aged three years, died of yellow fe-
yer this morning at Is Washing
ton street.
Special to the Nashville American.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 3D.
Our epidemic is assuming formida-