Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-31
THE SITUATION AT MEMPHIS,

THE SITUATION AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, July 3O.-Four new cases were
reported to the board of health this morn
ing: Rose Hendricks, John Creeden, G. H
Smith and Maggie Towers. No deaths have
been reported up to noon. w. w. Corcoran,
banker at Washington, has sent check for
$4,000 to be used for the removal of the
poor destitute from the city. OF the sick,
Brooks, Wilson, s. A. Hatcher, Miles, Owen,
and Michael Athey are reported in critical
condition. The weather has settled.
EIGHT NEW CASES.
MEMPHIS, July 3O.-Eight more cases
were reported to the board of health this
afternoon, five of whom we're colored No
deaths from yellow fever have occurred for
the past twenty-four hours ending at 5 p. NJ.
Several cases of fever are reported outside
the corporate limits of the city, which are
not included in the official report of the
tolrd of health.
The Towards have five nurses on duty,
distributed among fifty-six sick people.
DYING.
s. A. Hatcher and Brooks Wilson, tele-
graph operators, are reported dying tonight.
The daughter of Chief of Police Athey il
sick with the fever at Raleigh, Tenn, and is
in a critical condition. There is about 200
people at Camp Marks. Weather clear and
pleasant.
AN ENTIRE FAMILY STRICKEN.
: MEMPHIS, July 3o.-John b. Easton, old
est son of DR.. Thos. s. Easton, was stricken
with fever tonight. This case, together
with the wife and two daughters, includes
the entire family, who are now Frustrated
with the disease.
Samuel A. Patcher died tonight at eight
O'Clock. James Hester, the last member of
family of seven, two of whom died, was
prostrated with fever this afternoon.
NO NEW CASES IN NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, July 3O.--No new cases re-
ported in the city. A little child at los
Bourbon street was brought here sick Sun
day night from Morgan City. It has the
black vomit and will die. The Morgan City
authorities sent the child and it's parents to
this city.
DEATH IN NEW YORK.
New York, July 3O.-Steward Wells, of
the steamer Niagara, plying between this
port and Havana, died in the latter port
yesterday Of yellow fever.
All Memphis refugees sent to quarantine
last week have been discharged.
SCARLET FEVER AND YELLOW FEVER.
Prof. Chandler, of the health board, says
scarlet fever caused more deaths in New
York State last year than the yellow fever
did in the S-uth, and yet failed to excite
public apprehension or to make people ordi-
narlly careful to prevent infection.
FAITHFUL NURSE.
A. L. Reith, barber of the steamer Sara
toga, while in delirium at the quarantine,
sprang up in bed, selling the long side-whis-
kars of Williams, the hospital steward and
nurse, and tore out great handful by the
roots. Williams was recently left fortune
of $4,000 in England, but he refuses to
abandon the work of nursing yellow fever
patients in the quarantine hospital, which he
has taken upon himself.
TWO NEW GASES AT NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, July 3O.-Two suspicious
cases were reported to the board of health
to-day, making a total of five now under OBJ
servation. No deaths.
D1s1NFEor1oN.
WASHINGTON, July 3O.-The executive
committee of the national board of health
has issued circular on disinfection. It adj
vises thorough scrubbing and moist cleaning,
to be followed by fumes of burning sulphur,
at the rate Of eighteen ounces per one thou
sand cubic feet of space to be disinfected.
DIED WITH THE Symptoms.
New YORK, July 30.-A woman named
Maggie Cregan, patient in Presbyterian
hospital died Tuesday, it is said, with all
the symptoms of yellow fever. She reached
here July I'd, on the vessel Wallace, which
was detained at quarantine for few days.
NOT YELLOW FEVER.
New ORLEANS, July 3O.-John Knoop,
Norwegian, is much better. His case, to-
gether with that of Fitzpatrick were re-
ported to the board of health as genuine
yellow fever. DR.. Chopin, who has been
absent several days, returned to-day and
visited Fitzpatrick who is sitting up. DIR.
Chopin expresses the belief that Fitzpatrick
has not had yellow fever. Other patients
doing well. 1t is now believed they will all
recover.
FATAL CASE AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, July 3O.--A colored servant of
Capt. Lee, of the steamer Coahoma, known
by the name of Henry, died last night at
7l2 Washington street. To-day post
mortem was made by several physicians, and
while it is not officially reported the death
was caused by yellow fever, there is little
doubt such was the case. The premises
were thoroughly disinfected. DR.. Brown. of
Memphis, who also came up on the Coahoma,
treated the case.