The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-31
TILE YELLOW FEV Err.
Effects OF the Disease on Different
Sections.
The situation--in Memphis The New
Gases and Deaths.

Hagsnan. John Holly, Judy Barbary, Aman-
AN Havs dnd Chas. Smith. No deaths are
vet reported. ). s. Hatcher and Miles Owen,
sproninent citizens, are in dying condition.
one hundred and fifty people went to the
camps yesterday.
B 3, In.-There was only one death to-day,
III. Dupartis, a Frenchman. There have been
three cases since the last dispatch, A. Solo
mon, Lewis Cooper and Lizzie Bell, making
n III all twelve cases
10 b. m.AFour other cases have been re-
ported, namely: Michael Alley, Brookes Will
Hgon, Benz Adams and Chas. Bennett
An order for $4,000 has been received from
Tie Washington banker, w. W. Corcoran, to
help the suffering and needy to leave the
city. -
THE FEELING AT BAYOU SARA.
Especial TO the Democrat m.o=
Bayou SARA July 30.-The fever news
1reates quite an uneasy feeling here. Our
parish and city authorities will no doubt es-
fablIsh rigid quarantine after the fourth OF
/ August. VIDETTE.
Il YELLoW FEVER HERO IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, July 30-New York has her
yellow fever hero as well as the more afflct-
ed cities OF the South. This man Is nursing
& In the hospital on Swinburn island and Is an
Englishman by birth. He recently fell heir
ID fortune of $4,000, but absolutely refuses
Y To abandon his work OF mercy In nursing
y fever patients and go home and enjoy tt. He
works tree OF charge and Is regarded as In
4 valuable by the quarantine officials. He is
4 tall and athletic and decidedly handsome.
Some Idea OF the hardships he Is compelled
j to bear may be gained from the following in
stance related by Quarantine Commissioner
Oakley, who has just Returned ffuni 8 tt1tft. ef
i Inspection. They are also Illustrative OF the
terrible suffering Of fever patients and their
frenzy. DR.. Oakley says: During my visit
y j. r. Reith, the barber of the steamer Sara
tOga, began complaining OF dreadful burn
{ Inc Id the stomach, the first symptoms of
black vomit. Soon afterward he WAS seized
with delrium. and In a frenzy sprang up, and
/ seizing the long side whiskers of Williams,
the hospital steward and nurse. tore out q
Y great handful by the roots. The patient
Il Relth will die tonight. Hennessey, the
stevedore who was admitted some days ago
from the upper quarantine, and VINO has since
died from fever contracted while handling the
from his bed Id delirium while Williams had
gone la search of some medicine, and SELLING
chair, broke 1t into splinters with one crash
upon the floor
no NEW CASES IN BROOKLYN.
There are no new cases Of yellow fever re-
ported In Brooklyn. Those people who came
e tO Brooklyn from Memphis are all dong well,
and are ID excellent health No vessels have.
arrived from infected ports, and there is not
the slightest fear that any other attacks of
3 the disease will arise.
DEATH IN HAVANA.
A dispatch from Havana announces the
death yesterday, from yellow fever, of Mt.
Wells, steward Of the steamer Niagara, which
left here on the ninth instant.
THE BROOKLYN REFUGEES.
The remainder of the refugees from Mem
phis, who were sent to the quarantine hos
pital last week, were to-day discharged and
brought to the city, the physicians having no
fear that they will be attacked with fever.
THE SICK AT QUARANTINE.
Y j. T.. Reith, the barber OF the steamer Sara
toga, who was admitted to the hospital come
days ago suffering from yellow fever, is not
expected to recover. There are three other
patients at quarantine.
Il DEATH AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL.
Margaret Cronan, stewardess of the bark
y Wallace, which arrived at this port on the
Bec0nd OF July, from Havana. with cargo of
sugar, died yesterday at the Presbyterian
Hospital. Mrs. Cronan was admitted to the
hospital on the nineteenth instant together
with Mr.. Dagnett, the first mate. The latter
left the hospital quite we'll on Saturday last
but Mrs. Cronan gradually became weaker,
and died yesterday. Her remains were in
guine's Point Cemetery for interment The
hospital has been thoroughly fatnigatea.
THE PRECAUTIONS TAKEN AT WAsHINGTON-A
GROUNDLEsS RUMOK.
& WASHINGTON, July 30.-'The following are
the latest dispatches to the National Board Of
Health:
''MEMPHIs, July 80, 8 80 q. m.-There have
been eight new cases and one death since last
report. MITCHELL"
81 .fnfn aHn in, tf<>r,
to cases OF yellow fever in this city appear to
have but little effect in producing a scare In
conversation with DR.. Townsend, health Off
Ger, this morning, that officer denounced all
=rumOrs about yellow fever here as gruundIess,
and says there Is no case nor has there been
any of the kind here. He has made every ar
raDgement necessary to attend to any case
which may arrive, and 50 thoroughly have
these preparations been made that it Is not
possible for o case of yellow fever to ex-
LIST here without his knowledge. Every
hotel keeper in town, and every boarding
house keeper OF any. prominence has PROM
tsed to inform him OF any arrival from In
fected places In the South, and ne mas place
and also the necessary paraphernalla Tor dis
injecting clothing, baggage, etc, IN the
promptest manner.
4 Col. Casey Young has arranged with the
authorities in cities and towns 10 the ainlcted
districts OF the South to have every person
arriving here from those points report 70 MIN
at his place, No 1912 F street, and the health
officer OF this district is informed In every
case and has personal meeting with all such
persons arriving here, and satisfies himself
! In each case. The health officer is in almost
hourly communication with the National
Board OF Health, and will receive full CO..
operation from that quarter.
ss Dr. Townsend says the statements heretO-
fore published about cases of yellow fever
here are absolutely false. The only case
which has given him any cause for suspicion
ls that of woman and two children who ar
rived in the eastern portion Of the city On Sat
nrday last from Memphis On their way to
Virginia. He visited them this morning and
Iound they had resided in the suburbs OF Mem
phis, but had left some days ago on their way
They had, however, been quarantined three
z Gays by the Memphis authorities, their bag
gage and effects overhauled and thoroughly
Mnigated and had received from the health
authorities there certificate that there was
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