The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-17
yellow Fever News.

Yellow Fever News
So far as can be ascertained the following
cities and towns have ~quarantined against
Memphis: New Orleans, Vicksburg, Little
Rock, Pine Bluff, Norfolk, Oxford, Holly
Springs, and Montgomery Ala.
At a mass meeting Of the citizens Of
Brownsville, Tenn, held on the 18th, it was
unanimously resolved not to interfere with
the running of trains en- the Louisville and
Nashville Railway.
Five new cases were reported and one
desth-an infant of Judge J. e. B. Ray Of
the Criminal Court, who, together with an.
other son, was Frustrated with the disease.
A perfect stampede was in progress, trains
being unable to carry away the hundreds
who were ready to leave. The Mayor of
Vicksburg has issued a strict quarantine
against Memphis by land and water.
The Board OF Health, of Carlo, Ill has
established strict quarantine against Mem.
phis, ordering that passengers by rail be
not allowed to stop rel there, and no
steamboatfrom Memphis, or that has landed
there on any trip, be allowed to land or
put off freight or people. The Board Of
Health of Galveston, Texas, has also issued
quarantine against Memphis.
On the morning of the 10th, the Board
of Health issued the following order:
III the People @ the City Of Memphis:
"Ws would say, quietly remove your
families to places Of safety until We can at
least see whether the few cases of yellow
fever VIII assume an epidemic form. To
people along the lines of the different routes
of travel we say there is no possible danger
of infection for many days to come"
A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn, dated
July 9, says: Frank Mulbrandon, an
Irishman aged forty-seven, and shoemaker
by trade, was taken sick last Saturday
afternoon and died to-day. A post norton
examination was he'd by six of the leading
physicians of the city, including DIR. r. W.
Mitchell, late Medical Director of the
Howard Association and at present a
member of the National Board of Health,
and DIR. G. B. Thornton, President of the
City Board Of Health, and revealed the fact
that the patient had died'of yellow fever.
ALI the physicians declare it a sporadic
sase. Considerable excitement prevails.
A dispatch from Memphis, dated July IL,
says: The yellow fever prospect is brighter
to-day; nosnew cases are reported since yes.
terday .trencon. The panic is greatly
absted. All departing trains and boats are
loaded with passengers about Eve thousand
left last niguta and this morning. The an.
n~ouncements of our Board of Health and
press are censured by some as premature.
Several physicians. deny that it is yellow
fever, though the shoemaker Mulbrandon
and Charles Ray had unmistakabie black
vomit. A number of d ctors, however, sent
their families away evening before last and
yesterday.
President Pluaket, of the State B ard i, 1
Health at Nashville, SEN the following
dispatch to all the local health authorities
in the State on the 18th; EVERY
protection that is possible will be given to
the cities, towns and villages Of Tennessee
by the State Beard of Health, should yellow
fever become epidemic in Memphis. To
act efficiently full concert of action il
absolutely necessary" In response t. 9
telegram from President Plunket, asking
DR.. Mitchell whether he should put into
Immediate operation the rules and
regulations of the Sanitary Council of the
Mississippi Valley for boats and railways
and asking whether the situation warrant,
vigorous measures, DR.. Mitchell says: al
don't think it necessary n W. A few day
will determine. 1t is well enough to b.
ready"
A Washington dispatch of the 10th say
news from Memphis by the regular press re
ports has somewhat surprised members o.
the National Board of Health. They hat
been led to hope that the disease would no
reappear there, at least for some time tt
come. Their W reports are not as full
as the press reports. and do not indicate al
alarming a state of affairs. There is consid
cradle confidence felt that matters are not
as bad as represented. Immediate step.
will be taken toward organizing 10 proven
the spread of the disease if it becomes epi
demis at Memphis, and to this end all tn,
extraordinary powers of the infectious
diseases act will, if necessary, be called into
play. This act gives the National Board o.
Hath, under the President, full power tc
make or alter local regulations, and to d.
whatever may seem best to arrest the spread
of the contagion.
There were no new cases of yellow fever a
Memphis on the 14th and the physicians
are of the opinion that it will not become
epidemic. The Board Of Health of New
Orleans claim that that city is in an un'
usually healthy condition.
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