The New York herald., 1879-08-24
THE MEMPHIS PLAGUE.
Seventeen New Gases of Yellow
Fever at Memphis.
NEW RULES ADOPTED.
Death List Within and With
out the City.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ]

MEMPHIS. August %, 1879.
The rules~and regulations OF the State Board Of
Health, which prohibit all persons from venturing
beyond their premises between the hours of rine P.
NJ. and six A. NJ, go into effect tonight The police
have been instructed to rgdly enforce these regula
tions This night is such disagreeable that no.
body but lunatic would think of gong abroad. 1t
has rained steadily all the afternoon. and there
immediate prospects of change
in the weather. The thermometer to-day
has ranged from 72 to rs. Seventeen new cases
reported to the Board Of Health to-day ten of which
were colored. The following the of the
whites reported for the twenty-four hours ending
at six O'Clock this evening"
Elias McDougal. aged ffty-three, No. 304 Front
street.
Mrs. f. waggencr. aged forty No. % Avery street.
W. L. Howlin. aged twenty. No. $50 Vance street.
Maggie B.bo. aged eight. No. 90 Huling street.
Mrs. G. Graves. aged 16. corner of Madison and
Charleston avenues.
Frank Atwood, aged 10, Carolina street.
Mrs. Dena Goldcanap. aged AZ. No. &C Jackson
street.
The death list inside the city limits is as fol-
lows (whites):-
Mrs. FANNIE B. MOORIs. aged 81, No. 4s2 Main
street.
WILLIE STEIN, aged 10. corner of Fifth and Caro-
lima streets.
The following are colored:-
SIDNEY POINTER aged T. corner Of Georgia and
Suzetta streets
JULIA RUSSELL. aged SO No. 176 Linden street
MARTHA BOYLE. aged 26, No. 253 Monroe street.
HATTIE RAMBERT. aged 3O No. 4O1 Court street.
WILLIAM THOMAS. aged 10 weeks, No. 365 Wash
ington street.
LIZZIE WALSH, aged 16. Vance street.
OUTSIDE
rhrJNy
PAT. MCMAHON. aged 40. Camp Father Mathew.
MARY HOLMAN. aged IS, Dunlap, near Emwood
street.
W. D. HART. aged 40. Walker avenue.
The prominent sick of to-day James Roosa. of
the well known firm of James Roosa Co., wagon
manufacturers. who was stricken five miles east Of
the city the Raleigh road; the wife of DIR. s. II.
Collins. who returned last Tuesday from Lagrange
Tenn. and Mrs. G. V. Graves Mrs. DR.. Collins had
a attack Of the fever last year. Mrs. Graves
lately from Charleston. Mo. Her hus-
band is the telegraph operator ut the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad Office. He was Ill
about two weeks since and she hurried to his bed
side. He recovered and now she is down with a
| malignant j. d. Stewart, we'll known
teacher this city, is also prostrated with the fever
In Fort Pickering, just beyond the city limits. H. p
Rickett city editor of the Apalache; j. c. Hook
! of the printers Of the Appeal. and S. II. Gibson,
bookkeeper at the same Office. are all rapidly con-
valescing. General John s. Skefhngtons condition
| tonight is favorable. Elias McDougal has q
| severe case. Mrs. Van Anderson and her daughter
| are both doing well.
| The Howard Association to-day assigned twenty
| additional nurses to duty. Their report for the
week shows they have 1872 nurses on duty attending
1856 sick families, 11s Of whom are white and 67
coored. To date they have cared for 472 families.
Tho Memphis Reserves-a white military company.
| composed Of thirty-ive young men-was organized
this afternoon by electng the following oflicers:-
Lewis Frierson. captain; A. c. Lake, first lieutenant;
Lytteton Penn. second lieutenant; b. Haynes. Or
derly sergeant They were all sworn in and are
| ready for duty.
DR.. John Chandler secretary Of the Local Board Of
Health. furnishes the following statistics:-
| Total number Of reported for tho week,
| 14s; whites. CO.; colored. 70; under i've years of
| age, 8.