Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-08
SPREADING PESTlLENCE.
Twenty Nine New Cases and Three Deaths
in Memphis Y+sterisy-Five Conva csc.
enis at 81. LOuis-~ew Orleans Declared
Entirely Free of the F4ver-Quarantine
Agains. the City Removed.


in Memphis Y+sterisy-Five Conva'e ESQ.,
en,s at 81. Louis--ew Orleans Declared
Entirely Free of tn. F+ver-Q Quarantine
Aeains. the City Removed.
STILL SPREADING.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 7.-Twenty-nine cases in
oil, including the five mentioned in these
dispatches last night were reported to the
board of health for the twenty-four hours
ending at 6 p. NJ. Nineteen of these are COL
ored. Among the whites reported this af-
terno IN are r. E. Webb, Lizzie Gatchell,
Lille Todd. Three additional deaths have
occurred, Kate Holly, Fred Hollaader, Jesse
Heard, colored. This is marked increase
in the number of new cases, and plainly in
dicates the fever is rapidly spreading.
THE TOWARDS.
The Howard association to-day assigned
twenty five additional nurses to duty. Their
daily expenses now aggregates over five
hundred dollars. Ed. Moons condition to-
night is more favorable than last evening
X. E. Webb is in critical condition. Mrs.
Flago and the remaining two of her children
were Frustrated this afternoon. Their cases
will be reported tomorrow. The entire fami-
ly of mother and four children are down with
the disease.
Commencing tomorrow q semi weekly
mail will be received and sent to Grenada,
Miss, via the Mississippi & Tennessee rail-
road.
1t rained heavily this afternoon. Another
storm from the south is threatened.
AID ASKED PROM THE ABSENT.
The committee of safety have ser.t circular
letters to absent Memphians in other cities
asking assistance toward supporting the poor
now in camp.
FOUR AND SEVEN.
MEMPHIS, Aug. Eleven new cases we're
reported to the board of health this morn
ing; seven are colored. The whites are Mike
Dryer, John Swanander, Miss Amelia Her
man. Two deaths have occurred since last
night. J. Tighe also has the fever at his
residence on Walker avenue, be, ond the city
limits. Ed. Moon 10 still alive. Weather
sultry Heavy storms prevailed last night
to the north of Memphis. Light showers
fell in the city near daylight.
STATUS OF LOCAL HEALTH OFFICERS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Judge Tarbell, deputy
first comptroller of the treasury, has given a
decision in The question recently raised by
the national board of health as to the official
status of health officers appointed by St1te
and local boards and paid out of the funds
of the national board upon application of
the local organization for aid. Judge Tar
bell holds the appointees of local organiza-
tions are at most only agents of t national
board, and that the mere fact that the rules
of the latter require money in aid of local
boards to be paid directly to their employees
and not to the boaod themselves for descre-
tionary use, does not make said employees
United States officers. Judge Tarbell recon-
mends. however, all such appointees be re-
quired to certify under oath the correctness
of their acts ard the amount of their COM
pensation.
AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. Louis, Aug. The report from quar-
antine shows there are five patients in the
hospital, one yellow fever convalescent and
two sick with malarial fever. Mrs. Philmott
of Memphis, is improving. Health Com
missioner Francis sent communication to-
day to the national board of health asking
that st. Louis receive quota of the funds
set apart by the government for yellow
fever.
NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Aug. THE board OF
health tonight adopted the following:
RESOLVED. That there is n ot now single case
of yellow fever in the city or envi ons of New
Orleans; that the board concur with the belief
of the entire medical profession of this city
that there is no danger of an epidemic arising
this summer from past or future cases. Should
such occur, the grave danger to be apprehend.
ed from the introduction of foreign cases the
board of health is determined to avoid by the
strictest and most unremitting vigilanc !,
The above resolution was preceded by the
declaration that the city is entirely free from
contagious disease, and suggesting that the
quarantine against New Orleans be re-
moved. The board granted DR.. Chopin
leave of absence until he RECEIVERS his health
Information is received that the quarantine.
> against New Orlerns have been removed b,
, Grenada, Miss, aud eother points on tn,
Jackson road.