Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-07-31
TELEGRAPHlC.
YELLOW FEVER RECORD.
A Meager Batch of News from
the Scourged District.
Twelve New Cases and No
Deaths Reported Yesterday.
Apparently More Comfortable
Feeling Prevails.
The Yellow Plague Getting Fairly
Started at New Orleans.
One Hundred and Seventeen
Deaths in Havanna Last Week.
Iowa Ravaged by Almost a Cholera
Epidemic,
Which Creates a Panic Equal to
the Yellow Feher.
Which Creates a Panic Equal to
the Yellow Feher.
YELLOW FEVER.

eases of yellow fever were reported
to the Board of Health this moru-
ing; Rose Hendricks, John Cree
den, c. II. Smith and Maggie
Tauns. No d aths have been re-
ported up to noon.
W. W. Carcoran, a banker at
Washington, D. c., has sent a
check for two thousand dollars, to
be used for the removal of the poor
and destitute from the city.
Of the sick, Brooks Wilson, S.
A. Hatcher, Miles Owen and
Michael Athy are reported in a
critical condition. The weather is
now settled.
LATER-Eight more cases were
reported to the Board of Health
this afternoon, including five col
ored. There were no deaths from
yellow fever during the twenty four
hours ending at 6 p. m. to-day.
Several cases were reported outside
the corporate limits of the city,
which are not included in the off,
cial report Of the Board of Health.
The Howard Association has As
nurses on duty, distributed among
Sc sick persons. s. A. Hatcher
and Brooks Wilson, telegraph op~
orator, are reported dying tonight.
daughter of Chief of Police Athey,
is sick sick with fever at Raleigh,
Tenn, and in a critical condition.
Thore are about two hundred peo-
pie at Camp Marks.
The weather is clear and pleas
ant.
New ORLEANS, July 30.-rwo
suspicious cases were reported to
the Board of Health to-day, mak~
ing a total of SO cases now under
observation. No deaths.
KEY WEST, Fla, July 3d.
We certify that there is not now,
nor has there been a case of genu-
inc yellow fever in this city, port or
island this season. Signed: L. W.
Bethel, Mayor and President of the
Board of Health; J. 7. Harris,
health officer and port physician /;
J. w. V. Plumer, M. D.; Fl. w.
Austin, M. D.; of the Marine Hos
pital service; NJ. j. Whitehurst,
NJ. D., and W. N. Elliott, Sanitary
Inspector of the National Board of
Health.
HAVANA, July 30.-There were
one hundred and seventeen deaths
from yellow fever here during the
week ending July 26. Elwin G.
Weld, purser of steamship Nigara,
plying between this port and New
York, died here from yellow fever
yesterday.
MONDAYS SICK AND DEATH ROLL
Memphis Special to Nashville American
The following new cases were re
ported to the Board of Health
Monday, being twelve in number
Annie Harris, aged 27, 800 Mair
street; Charles Williams, colored
aged 80, fernando road Callie
hughes, colored, aged 10, corner
OF Exchange and Front streets
Rebecca Young, colored, aged 35
l4o Jefferson street; Mary B
Easter, aged 38, $50 Washington
street, Amelia K. Easter, aged Is
356, Washington street; Eiz,
Ester, aged 9, $50 Washington
street; J. Jones, COL, aged "a, cor
ner Lauderdale and Orleans streets
Mitchell Castago, aged 35, corne
of Sixth and Broadway streets; P
W. Phelan, aged 80, 2O7 Vanc,
street; Mary Volkmar, aged 10, g
Union street; Easter Stay, colored
aged 19, IS De Soto street.
There were but two deaths from
yellow fever for the twenty-fou
hours ending at s p. m, as follows
Jacob Fletch, aged Al, 234 Tent
street; Dick Robinson, aged %
Elmwood Cemetery. The death Q