, 1879-08-10
YELLOW-FEVER.
The Disease Declared Epi-
demic by the Men,
phis Authorities.
Absentees Warned Not to Re-
turn Until Further
Notice.
Thirty-nine New Cases Register
ed in That City Yes
terday.
Camp Marks. Outside the City,
Entirely Free from
Fever.
Not a Case Reported in New
Orleans in Thirt cen
Days.
Fatal Result in Case Contract
ed in Brooklyn.
MEMPHIS.
THE DAYS DOISGs.

| MEMPHIS.
THE DAYS Do1SGs.
Speefor Dlsoatch to i.e Tr::.n=-
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 9.-Twenty-one new
| cases and i've deaths were reported to the
Board OF Health today. Ten OF the newly sick
are white, and eleven colored. The DEATHS
we're all white, viz: Mrs. Frances Getz. Mrs.
4. Boyd, L. Tober, Miss Lizzie Gctchell, aud
| Roberts.
| The fever is gradually extending its field, and
| prostrating fresh victims in new places. Re-
! ports from Camp Marks to-day say that the lit
| tie village is free from all kinds OF sickness,
] and the only ycllow-fever case at the Hospital
| near is Mr.. Lyle, who is convalesclng.
| The ycllow-feYer excitement along the line Of
| the Memphis 81 Charleston Railroad is fast
| dying out, aud
THE PEOPLE ARE TRANQUIL
| A number Of cases Of fever are under treatment
outside OF the city limits, and are not set down
| in the list reported at the Board Of Health Of
| fee. Among item are eight colored people, in
| Guiding William Cook, on johnson avenue; the
! Rev. John johnson, pastor Of St. Lukc's Church,
| on Popular boulevard; Mary McCassey, near
Fort Pickering Woolen-Mllls; John Gllmer,
| wife, and child, near French Garden. Fort Pick
ering; Martha Fleming, Richmond avenue; and
] Mrs. John Allen. Donohue place. Also the
| following white persons: F. H.. Finney, 16S
! Alabama; Miss Caroline Smith, Dunlap; Mrs
Lizzie Gctzell, Exchange; Dennis and Luke
| Ro1 and Miss J. Peters, Dupree; J. Mcdonald,
near Elmwood Cemetery: Nettie Cole and
| Emma Forbes, corner Of Walker avenue and
| Ianderdale.
Edward Noon has
PASSED AL DANGER,
so his friends believe, aud all that is now re-
| quired is careful nursing. The young gentle
man has had q close case, but he has never
! lost confidence In his ability to pail safely
| through -"r. ~
Fourteen persons landed here By means Of
small boats night before last and yesterday
morning from the steamers Hard Cash and Bal
timore Belle. They would rather run the risk
Of ycltow-fever, they say, than to take the
chances Of starvation al St. Louis. The quar-
antinc officers failed to cast their eycs upon
these persons.
NEW CASES.
The following is 4 List Of the new cases report
ed to- day:
White-Martin o'Leary, 25a New Madison,
Julia Walsh, 2G2 New Madison; Laura Fill, l16
South Ruth; \. Easton, 356 Washington; hary
Kelly, 100 Market; Mrs. Mary 4. Taylor, 95
lor, o. Vance; George Shaw, rear OF 70 Vance;
Mrs. DR.. Bertschl, 16o Linden; Miss sallie HoT-
man, Jackson.
This list Is outside the city limits:
Colorcd-Daniel Gordon, SO South; Jack
Hooper, 19s Pantotoc; Elder j. Il. Ridley, cor
ner Of Poplar aud Alabama: Robert Frearson,
rear Of 149 Vance; Josephine Nofrel}, % Gcor-
gia; Laura Lawl, 662 Georgia; Emma Barnes,
3s7 Lauderdale; Lucy Sears, 473 Lauderdale;
Ellen Price, Central Point: james Morse, Jas
mine; Mary Bridge, 1886 Vance.
In addition to the above, eighteen new cases
were handed to the Board OF Health alter hours,
Of which fifteen were colorcd and three white,
mixing total OF thirty-nine for the day, Of
which twenty-six were colored and thirteen
white
:. DECLARED EP1DEM1C.
The Board Of Health issued an address to the
City Government, declaring the fever opioemic,
aud warning citizens absent not to return.
Following is the official announcement:
The Board OF Health being informed that there
is disposition manifested On the part ct some ab-
senteeg from Memphis to return sooner than II
increased, tdeems best to submit the following
statement in regard to the peyalencc and spread Of
yeoy ss w e
regular weekly report. exceeded the deaths from
all other causes by few, and be,ng less than that
Of the week previous. the Board Of Health was en-
courAGed to believe that it would not exceed
this number for any week during the prevalence Of
the disease. and as no ptaetical good, It was
thought. would result from the formal announce
n,ent OF the epidemic, it declined to make such
announcement. At tnat time, Auc. 2, 1t prevailed
mostly IN the neishooEhood where me 1Est cases M
city, in the Fifth and in portion Of the Seventh
aud Tenth Wards. and in the northeastern portion
OF the city, in the Eighth Ward. and could not be
considered epidemic beYoad those limits. During
the last ten days it has extended beyond these |
limits. where IL was hoped 20 be confined. and cases
have been reported Deaths have occurred in SO
many different localities OF the city that 1t is now
impossible to say what portion is not infected.
Therefore the Board OF Health makes formal decla
ration Of i general epidemic.
The dcath-ratc Is email in proportion to the ]
number ol cases reported and there are good rea-
reaches, tie present weeks mortality during the
prevalence OF The disease. These reaaons are: |
some escape, in every epidemic, not being !
% a0s not 70 fne% sn9 tass who
remain projected BY previous attack. and it is
reasonable TO- assume that many who contract the /
disease will recover; tina. large proportion Of our
population who are liable to diseases have left the
city, and the work 0! aepopulaton is still in prog
ress which should be- no doubt I'll bc eonttn
which would not only have the effect to prevent
some from getting into camps. where such prosls-
ion is made, but wou1d induce others to come into
the city. and thereby become ;he means Of spread
ing the disease to localities no" free from nfec~
ton.
Therefore, IN view Of these facts. we are induced
tn beIieye although the disease Is liable to be here
until frost the rate OF morality will not exceed,
If i, equais ITS present nuu,oer for any one week
IN the future Every practicable means Of disin-
fection and local sanitation calculated to arrest the
disease has been, and IL still bein. psactiHed. In
this work the Board Of Health has the Actye CO.
oDeras1on OF both the National and State Boards
Of Health through thcir respective representa-
fires, Dr.. R. y. Mitchell. Of the former and the
Hon Jonn johnson Of the latter:
Iron,, To mn deaths |
fever since its appearance as reported to this Of
ice: Fur the wees ending July IL ;ns s for 1n1 tie
81. -: for the week ending Au.-2, 25: fuz tho
week ending Aug. 8. ~. Tutat number Of deaths
TO date. o. AZ is customary, the Board OF Heoith
viii announce officially through the papers when 1t
Is thought safe for ahseptees to return
G. II. TuoESrox, II. D., !
~: -. '' President Of the Board of HEALTH
The death rate from yel1ow-tcver from july |