Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-06
Yellow Fever Notes.

According TO reports up to Saturday,
the total number of persons drawing |
rations in Memphis and at the camps
was go. At Camp Marks, there
were 398; a. Camp Father Mathew,
5S6; in both camps, 934. The only
persons drawing rations in the city
were the military and their families,
2s4 in all, Of which number 1876 we're
women and children. "a
Memphis Avalanche, Sunday: TIE
record for the past week shows that
one-half ihe eases reported have been
colored people, aud that out of 26
deaths by yellow fever, only were
reported of children under 5 years of
age. This comparative exemption of
children isin marked contrast to the
fever oils year, which was especially
fatal among the little innocents Ply
siciaBs say that the disease this year is
pure yellow fever, without the typhoid
and congestise features that character
lied it last year. This is cCrroborated
by the limited number of children
that have been attacked this year,
which is in accordal ces With the ex-
perience of every epidemic except that
of 1878, when the contrary fact was
adduced to show the unprecedented
com plicatiOn of the disease.
Beginning with to-morfow,t the mails
will be carried out on the Louisville
and Nashville road on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, and are
brought in Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays.
The Mississippi and Tennessee road
h hn far q Anrn
Lake on Tuesdays and Fridays, whence
Ett,ev are taken ON TO Gamers Station
by another engine
Mails comein every day by the old
reliable Memphis and Charleston load.
Memphis special to Mondays Gin
cinnati Gog9tte Another miserable
| Sunday not more dreary than any
| other day in the week, but miserable
| because of the absence of the usual
Darapherna ALA of a Christian Sabbath,
/ not less Conspicuous in Mem phis than
any other city on~the contihent% But
one church-St. Patrick's CATHOLIC
YVES open at the usual hour of services
to-day, and twenty persons was the
maximum number in attendance.
| Many of the business houses, mainly
grocery stores were open, serving Gus
TONERS and whattheIe is leftin Mem
phis to make. any appearance at all are
the principal thSIoug tfares, but little
tchange from what is seen every day in
the week.
The weather has changed but little,
except perhaps a degree warmer
thunder showers ere threatened. this
afternoon, but did not come, and to-
night the atmosphere is quite COM
Portable. Ta25
The Towards make an official report
of their operations up to last night
Up to the 30lh of July they had in
charge fifty.six patients, OF which
number eleven died and five have con
valesced, leaving at that date forty
under treatment. Up to last night the
total number Of sick was seventy-three
an increase of seventeen during the
past two DAYS. OF The total number
fifty-six are whites and seventeen col
ored people. They have sixty-five
Lurses on duty. In addition TO the
above they furnished to-day shfteeI
nurses. g84Ba S9ks
|, The Howard Association have many
sick i'll charge outside of the city linn
its. whose names do not appear on the
hooks of the Board of Health. Among
those of to day afeitwo children oflDr
George Jones, on the fernando road
Robert e. Webb, of the house of w
II. Horton & Co., on Front street, wa
stricken with the fever to-day, but hi
physician did not report it to thu
; Board of Health. Webb has beer
. nursing his brother couple of weeks
The Marine Relief Committee repor
: eight cases In charge and all doint
. well. ...,.g.
The intention of the louisville ant
Memphis Railway to discontinue dali.
: mails and run only tri-weekly en-
gines, has created much dissatisfaction
= and the scheme is generally col
. demned. The Department at Wash
:, ington will, it is iutimafed, be urget
y to have regular daily mail acommu
nications keptup. - L...E.aa /.