, 1879-08-17
YELLOW FEVER.
Forty-six Deaths from the
Scourge in Memphis
Last Week.
The Total Number Of Victims
During the Epidemic
139.
A Majority Of. the New Cases
Still Among the Ne
groes,
But the Fatalities Are Princi-
pally Confined to the
Whites.
Few Very Serious Cases Now
Under the Doctors Treat
lnent.
Cairo Slightly Relaxing Its Quaran-
tine Regulations.
Cairo Slightly Relaxing Its Qnaran-
tine Regulations.
MEMPHIS.
TIE FEYER'S WORK.
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hfEupu1s. Tenn, Aug. 16.-To-day's reports
show twenty-onc new cases and seven deaths
from Yellow-fever. The Board OF Health reports
the total deaths from ycllow-feVer for the week
| ending O'Clock this evening at forty-sl1, aud
| the total to date since the first outbreak 49,
The same report shows that 1888 eases have oc-
| Cured the past week, OF which seVenty~one were
| white and 112 blacks. The cases Dredomtnatein in
| the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth
! Wards, the Eighth Ward embracing
! Jones avenue, Ross avenue, and Bradford
street, the northern infected districts furnishing
forty-nine cases. Not single case was report
! ed from either the Third or Ninth Wards but
| Two in the Second and three in the First Ward
THE TOTAL NEW CASES
! to date arc 531.
| The report shows g deaths from other causes,
| making in All 6S deaths for the week.
| Phystc,ans say they have no very bad cases
! on hand to-day, though there is no estimating
| what the uuseasonably cool weather may effect.
Paul Ross, the telegraph check boy, may die
tonight, as his condition was nearly hopeless ut
| last accounts.
| Mr.. Gibson, the Appeal bookkeeper,
! is now out Of danger, with an appetite difficult
! to control.
The weeks reports from the Howard Assocla-
ton contain interesting information, showing
the exact location of every case and number OF
cases IN each family.
| HOWARD REPORTS.
A SYNOPSIS Of the Howard weekly report is rs
follows: Ono hundred and nine five sick in
charge: 206 nurses on duty. Of. the sick,
120 are white and Is colored. Ratfons were
issued BIZ the commissariat here yesterday to
1.so3 persons, Of whom 1895 are in the camps;
407 are soldiers on the bluff with their respee-
tive families included, numbering 299 persons,
of whom thirty-fYe are children. Several hun
dred colored PERSONS collect every morning
about the Relief Society's doors, anxious to be
cmn1oyed rs nurses, but few Of the number arc
| chosen.
yesterdays CASES.
The following are the new cases Of to-day:
|. WHITES.
Earnest Leake, %, corner Elliott and Causey.
" Fl. Ennis, 40, 116 Gayoso.
Anton FEankling, "a, hospital
Mrs. $. E. Butler, 81, 159 Union,
Willie Dresher, l. II Jones avenue
| Francis Getz, T months, Is Bradford
Cordelia Atwood, %, Carolina, near Sixth
UoLoRED.
Margaret Gill. 20. 67 Dcsoto.
George Fambour, 49. 90 Desoto
Roxy Porter. GO, corner Elliott and ST. Martin
Winston Tcifore, 80, SO Sycamore.
Charles Gibson, 3, 121 Beale.
SalEie Nett}es, SO, same place.
! Annie Clash. 35. 17G Beale.
George Yenwine, is, 49 Ruth.
Eddie Boyd, 253 Pontotoc.
Dora Phillips, r. 1903 RayhuEn avenue
Caledonia Ward. Is Chafin-
Mary Hill. %, 70 Tate.
William Giyens, &c. 100 Court
DEATH5
. Charles E. uaiues (wh1te>, 18, 43 Jones avenue
Andrew Shelton (white), II, Hospital
William Murray (white), 40, Hospital.
George Getz (white}, 81, 13 Braford-
Fritz Ostmann (white), Is, Is Ross avenue.
Mrs. Ellen Cunningham (whlte), @o3 Ueooto'
/ Gus Atchtson (colorcd). 22, 346 Madison ex-
tended.
Ricketts,, Of the 4uakanche, who went TO oeo
with suspicious case last night, is reported
with light case Of yellow-fcVer.
NOON REPORT.
n the 1Ftst<r1. Assoetated Prtss.
|; Mr,1pu1s, Tenn, Aug. 16.-But one new case
. was renorted to the Board Of Hca1th up to noou
-Ernst P. Lcake.
Seven deaths have occurred since last night
Charles Edgar Hailes Mrs. Ellen Cunningham,
Andrew Shelton, William Murray, George Getz.
! FRITZ Oztmaup, and Gus Atchnson. The last
named was colored. The weather continues
chilly.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 1G.-Twentg-one cases In al!
. hare been reported to the Board OF Health to
day. fourteen of whom were colored~ among
the whites are ". H. Ennis, Anton franklin
Mrs. 8, E. Butler, and Cordelfa At"ood' NC
] deaths since noon.
All the prominent sick are reported doing
| well tonight.
an experienced 5ellow-fever nurse "as tele
eraphed for to-day to 60 to Bailey Station, ienn'
! twenty miles east of Memphis, on the Charies'
TIM Railroad. Another case Of fever has de7et
oned at White Haven, Tenn, the child ol A. L.
= Gof. The ticket agent Of the HoHatds eent
nurse there this afternoon.
INVESTIGATING.
\ Dr. ". l.. Coleman, Of San Antonio, lex
WIN WIS ordered By the National Board
6 health to Investigate the origin Of the 1e7e'
prevailing in this city, has been quietly at "otE
t for month past While he is not at liberty It
( make public the manner in which the germ
ware introduced, yet his investigations convlnc'
{ him thew we're imported direct from the Yves
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