The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17

of life is the encampment of colored troops on
the BLUFF. The reveille and the five O'Clock
matinee, when the band plays, are, as a cor
respondent says, &" the cheerful characteristics
of the present campaign. Fire alarms last
week relieved the monotony, but since the
watchfulness OF the authorities has been re.
doubled even the torch doesn't flicker"
Among the recent deaths from yellow fever
in New Orleans occurs the name OF Mrs.
Annie Marie Hood, wife Of General j. B.
He cd, of the Confederate army who lives in
On elegant mansion where the surroundings
ore of the best.
A recent Washington dispatch says: "Much
anxiety is expressed ct the headquarters OF
the state OF affairs in New Orleans. The
fever seems to be spreading, and to be in a
dangerous locality. The National Board has
received a telegraphic dispatch from there for
additional aid, and has sent $4,000 to the
health authorities of the State, to be used in
the work OF isolation and disintection.. The
National Board also telegraphed to DR.. Bemiss
to spare no effort to stamp out the disease if
possible. Should the fever continue to spread,
New Orleans will be shut in under the rules OF
the board, very much as Memphis now is. 1t
will not be practicable to empty New Orleans,
or to established camps, as was done at Men,
phis; but there is much reason to hope that
the disease may be more perfectly controlled
by sanitary measures in the former city than
in the latter"
A Memphis dispatch, to the New York
Herald says: cup to date 1873 cases of fever
nave officially been reported to the Board Of
Health-453 white and 42O colored. The total
number OF deaths foot mp 233-whitcs, 1888;
colored, so. The per centnm OF deaths among
the whites a. compared with the colored is
startling-while but twelve per cent. OF the
blacks have died over forty per cent. OF the
whites have paid the death penalty. Some
physicians in the beginning Of the epidemic
were of the opinion that the present type OF
fever was not so malignant as that OF last
year. The figures above will not now justify
such conclusions. When it is taken into con-
sideration that the spread of fever has been
gradual this season and that all the benevolent
associations have been better prepared to
nurse the sick and give them proper attention,
the death rate is alarming. There is also
another noticeable feature connected with the
present epidemic. Many who passed un-
scathed through the dreadful scenes of 1874
nave been FRUSTRATED, and again instances arc
OF persons who have been stricken
in previous years suffering On attack OF the
fever. The weather has been sultry all day.
Tonight at eight o'clock a steady rain began
The death at New Orleans OF General Hood
and his vile left their large family OF roung
children in a destitute condition, and subscrip-
lions for their benefit are being raised.
The fever is spreading in the suburbs OF
Memphis and ranging toward the country. A
Memphis dispatch says: "John johnson, res
ident member OF the State Board OF Health,
has begun to enforce the rules for disintecting
houses wherein yellow fever has existed,
whether the patients died or recovered. The
is not so much above the ground as
below it, and 80 long as vaults reeking with
filth and the excretia of yellow fever patients
are permitted to exist, the tulnigation and dis
infection oil houses will turn out to be q signal
Next year the same causes will pro-
duce like effects under the same conditions,
atmospheric and otherwise"
In consequence OF the uuusual violence OF
fellow fever at Havana during the past sum-
mer and the fatality OF the disease in vessels
which left that por., the royal order OF No
vember 4, 1848, has been revived and will be
enforced. 1t provides that no vessel carrying
above sixty persons, including passengers and
crew, shall leave Havana without having a
physician and a clergy mar on board. Vessels
will inevitably be detained If the order is not
with.