The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-08-02
Topographic Breyir;s.
Yellow Ferer ~.

New York, July 26.--N;,b.a =
gibbons, one of the Memphis rs,a 1lia
who came here, died to-day at on assss
tine of yellow fever. suafai
John Hennessy, one of the stepoa.
who assisted IN unloading the ss sSO'es
| City OF Merida, and eoutraetaa eaaef
fever, died at quarantine last. mai, iIsioF
| A. u. Keith, barber of the stas,
Saratoga, and E. b. Esty, stewa.s
the schooner Freddie C. Ebl,its ~
Haytian ports, were admitted = oe
hospital to-day sick with fever !" ua
St. Louis, July 27.-Tbe d.
Ouaehita Belle, with 800 pasaa,,a alef
and the Mattie Moore, with on seis'
Memphis. arrived atqnarantine lata a'Vla
night. There was no sickness, ON las .as'
either boat, and all the passengers NY
permitted to come up TO the CITY a M
evening. There are now five stea. ,.s
at quarantine, and they will H. M
until the authorities deem il prnasaa
for them to come to the city. '''
Six persons are now sick pit iana..,
tine hospital. but no eases of vallar
fever hive yet developed.
Cincinnati, July 28.-Chris Mevo.,
who left Memphis few days ago e l.n's,
on the health officer this Afternoon aas
said he believed he had the yellow -
ver. After examination, the officer sant
him to the hospital RS a suspieiotls eass
Special Telegram 10 the Galveston Nex.
New Orleans, July 26.-The boar, Il
health took charge of the infected prem
Uses corner of Second and Constance
streets, removed the family, burned tbe
clothing, fumigated and closed H.
house, and burned the corpse q fewhoun
after death
The adjacent buildings and streets
Tor several squares, We're sprinkledwj,b
the best and most powerful of known
disinfectants.
Another case now convalescing. has
been authenticated. in thesame VICINITY
There are still some five or six eases
believed to be yellow fever, but in .
mild form.
The excitement ran pretty high
through the city all day. The railway
officers could not supply the demand
Tor tickets called for. More cars. Bertls
IN the sieepers are already engaged for
morrow and day after.
Our Oldest practitioners say the fever
will not spread, that never u summer
passes without the Developments of some
scattering cases. Meanwhile, the qua
rantine Gordon begins to surround ms,
and business suffers. Shreveport, Nh
bile, Montgomery and the lesser points
idong the several lines of eommuliea.
tion have already put down the breaks
against boats, mails, persons and con
yeHanees from New Orleans.
New Orleans, July 29-The alarm
subsidies with the departure OF Che foat
ing element of our population.
Only two aseertained eases since my
last. The sanitary conditions sapelin
duce all possible prevention, buf tht
condition favor file props
gation of the disease.
Ihe fewer broke out this season nd
far from the self-sames spot whare 1t Grsi
last year.
Cleanliness of person or premises
seems no safeguard, as the second case
occurred in the family of a physician
occupying an elegant mansion in whit
is called the garden district Of The city,
The best preventive, however, and
surest safeguards, are looked for in the
Of the great majority, the
nurses and physicians, and
the flight Of 50 many yellow fever slib-
jects.