American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-30
THE YELLOW FEVER.


of Health, to investiga the origin of the
fever prevailing i'm Memphis, has been quietly
at work for over month past. While he is
not ut liberty to make public the manner in
which the germs were introduced, yet his
Investigations convince him they We're i'm
ported direct from the West Indies, and that
they passed the New Orleans quarantine un :
challenged, and arrived in that city some time
| in June.
There We're - new eases and sew
en- deaths from fever at Memphis on the
18th.
One hundred deaths occurred from
yellow fever at Havana for the week ending
vious week.
ragoane for Providence, r. I. =, lost the Cap
tain's wife at Hayti, and two seamen on the
voyage, from yellow fever.
On the 18th there were 81 new cases
and four deaths from yellow fever at Mem
phs. The disease had extended to the To-
cality known as Chelsea, a portion of the
city heretofore exempt from the disease.
The case of yellow fever at Bailey Sta
ton, Tenn. has been traced directly to in
fection from some trunks taken from Mem
velopment of the disease at Bailey Station.
On the Goth there were four deaths
from fever and % new cases at Memphis.
Houston, Texas, has declared quaran-
tine against Galveston, on account of the lat
ter city permitting the steamer Colorado,
from West India ports, to land and take i'll
cargo at her wharves.
The Mississippi State Board of Health
has established Il quarantine station at Com
merce. where downward bound boats must
land for inspection and the issuance of GER
tificates to passengers. A similar station has
been established at Fort Adams, for upward
bound boats.
Letter boxes are prominently placed
in the New York Post office, bearing the
following inscription: s. Contributions re-
ceived in this box for the orphans of yellow
fever sufferers at Memphis"
There were four deaths from fever and
20 new cases at Memphis on the 21st.
On the 22d at Memphis there were IL
deaths from fever and II new cases.
Two additional cases of yellow fever
were reported at New Orleans on the odd,
supposed to be the result of infection from
former eases.
There were IL new cases of yellow
fever and IL deaths at Memphis on the sd.
On the oath there We're 10 new cases and 8
deaths.
For the week ending July % there
were 14S new cases, of which 60 were white
and 20 colored. Number of deaths for the
week, 81. Total number of deaths to date,
liz.
Mrs. Van Buren,, 4 Memphis refugee,
developed of yellow fever i'll the
Pennsylvania Railroad Depot at Jersey
City, on the odd. She was taken to the
hospital.
Mr.. Graft, a guest at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel, Louisville, recently from Mem
phis, showed symptoms of yellow fever on
the 23d and was removed to the Yellow Fever
Hospital.
Mr.. Boyd, Il brother-in-law of the late
Rev. b. f. Tiller of Memphis, who died of
yellow fever at Shelbyville, Tenn. several
weeks ago, contracted the disease by attend
ing Tiler, and died at Tulahoma, Coffee
County, 20 miles from Nashville, on the
21st.
A letter from the Mayor of Starkville,
Miss. dated the 2lst, says four eases of fever
have developed there among Memphis ref
Health has been sent to that point to inves-
tisate the matter.
Four additional cases of yellow fever
developed in st. Louis on the 23d and 9th,
the victims being all Memphis refugees. All
were promptly sent to the Quarantine Hos
pital