The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-24
YELLOW FEVER NOTES.

= YELLOW FEVER NOTES.
The following telegraphed on the 14th
to every station along the lines of the four rail-
roads leading from the city: "No new cases
since the morning of the 10th inst. The fever
is confined to six sporadic cases. Memphians
are returning. Twice the usual number of
passengers by the BrownsviIle accommodation.
train this morning.
as. II. COLLINS, M. D.,
Secretary Board of Health.
A. D. LANGsTAFF,
President Howard Association
This afternoon the son of Judge Ray rallied,
and tonight hopes are entertained of his
recovery.
A dispatch hom Memphis, datod July II,
says: Five new cases of fever were reported to
the Board of Health. The cases consist of
members of two families named Hester, resid
ing under one roof at Nos. "a and ss Clay
street, in the southern portion of the city. The
present sick ones are members OF the families Of
Robert and James Hester, two brothers, whose
residences are in the same neighborhood as
Judge Rays house. The::foliowing persons are
Frustrated with the disease: Robert Hester
and wife, Mrs. James Hester, and two of her
children. Mrs. James Hester has been
sick for four days. Her children were
taken down Tuesday, as was also Rob-
ert Hester and his wife. Yellow fever symp-
toms were not fully developed until this morn
ing, when Mrs. james Hester had the black
vomit and died Just after one o'clock and was
buried at three p. m. Nonew cases are reported
since this morning. although there one
two people sick in the city whose cases are con-
sidcred suspicious. The announcement of the
new cases this morning did not create panic.
Many Memphians will leave the city tonight
and tomorrow night. Business is severely
injured by the development of the new cases,
and several firms will Immediately remove their
stock of goods to st. Louis, Louisville and Gin
cinnati. Gaston's Hotel closes tonight. The
Peabody Hotel will remain open. The Howard
Association is all ready for active work, but
does not consider the situation sufficiently
alarming to begin operations.
Lazaretto physicians, Philadelphia,
sent the startling news to the Board of Health
of that city on the 18th, that a ship had been
quarantincd with ten men aboard, seven of
whom were suffering from yellow fever. The
committee on Lazaretto at once sent message
to DR.. Robinson, Quarantine Physician, that
they ahould provide nurses as speedily pos
sible. All efforts in that direction proved a
failure, however, as nobody could be found in
the city willing to undertake the position of
nurse. Lazaretto is eleven miles down the
Delaware River and difficult of access.
A Washington dispatch snys that members
of the National Board of Health were not sur
prised upon receiving information Of additional
fever cases in Memphis, but they are quite en-
phatic in the opinion that there will be no epi-
damic arising from these cases.
Five new cases were reported at Memphis on
the 18th, and one death. Business is at a
stand-still till cold weather. Two banks have
closed and the officers left. Quarantining has
been renewed in q number of places.
At recent meeting of the Cabinet at Wash
ington, the principal subject under considera-
ton was the request of the National Board of
Health that medical officer of the navy be de-
tailed to go to foreign countries, where
the fever is known to exist, for the
purpose of examining all vessels bound
for the United States, and to
such as are not infected issuing clean bills OF
health. The question arose whether under the
act empowering the Board, such details were
mandatory, but it was not finally determined.
The sentiment of the members present ap-
peared to be that it would be very unjust to
detail these officers to such places at the risk OF
their lives. It is known that there will be
considerable hesitation about ordering either
army or naval surgeons to such duty, unless as
in the case of the supply ship sent down the
| Mississippi River last summer, voluntary offers
| shall be made.
The merchants of St. Louis held meeting
! on the 10th, to adopt such precautionary meas
ures as will satisfy the Texas authorities, and
avert the threatened quarantine against St.
/ Louis. The city authorities have been in tele-
! graphic correspondence with Texas officials, and
satisfactory understanding has been arrived at.
The report that Lowell, an octogenarian,
who had been suffering for year with hemor-
rhage from the lung, died of yellow fever, caused
a general stampede from Nashville on the 18th.
A dispatch from New Orleans, July 20, says
the city continues perfectly healthy not q
single of yellow fever has been reported to
the Board of Health, and fears are enter
tanned. A strict quarantine is maintained
against Memphis.
At Memphis, on the goth, eighteen new cases
and six deaths were reported since the pre-
ceding Friday. The people continue to leave in
great numbers, and others are getting ready "a
fast as possible, the latterlosing time in pack
ing shelf goods in boxes, and mailing up al
entrance to buildings. The streets are becoming
deserted, and the old times prevailing during
last years epidemic are fast coming into view
All the cities holding commerce in any manner
with the Inflated city are establishing quar-
antine.