The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-08-21
YELLOW FEVER.

The weather was reported sultry, will
appearances of rain, at Memphis on the 18th
Twenty-Five cases and six deaths were report
ed for the twenty four hours ending Tuesday
evening. A letter from Cornith, Miss, on thu
18th, stated that much excitement was occa-
stoned BY the mayor and the president of thu
board Of health being taken suddenly ill
posed at the quarantine station.
The national board of health had . dispatch
from q. 8. Consul at Mstanzas, stating that
information from Tampico to August LIST gave
accounts of . yellow fever epidemic werss
than New Orleans suffered from last year
Bagdad has an efficient quarantine against
Tampico.
New Orleans still protests against the unjust
action OF southern cities in quarantinine
against her rs her officers declare there is moi
. case Of yellow fever in the city.
Little Rock il taking great precautions
against refugees from Memphis and other in.
fected points.
st. Louis sent two additional cases to the
hospital and notified quarantine officials to
examine all boats from the Ohio river, that
none of the passengers should enter the city
from the infected districts.
Twenty-three new cases reported from
Memphis on the 18th, whites and l6 colored
The thermometer ranged from GO to SO. The
point. Hon. John johnson, member of the
State board of health and superintendent of
the quarantine announced under this date his
resignation, reserving the right to ask an in
vestigation of his official record, but . tele-
gram from the president of the State board
stated that the resignation was not accepted.
The number of new clSes in Memphis
reached forty on the llth-30 Of them colored.
The Shelby county medical society approve
and endorse the action Of DR.. Jerome Cochran,
and urge the national bard 20 make such pro-
visions as will enable the local authorities to
execute his plans, which are considered wise.
The Nashville authorities recommend that
the Governor call . session of the Legislature
to make provision for the suppression of the
scourge, and to provide for sufferers.
But fourteen cases were reported on the
18th to the board of health-eleven colored. 1t
rained nearly all the afternoon, and in the
evening fires were required, the thermometer
having fallen to " degrees.
At Memphis on the 10th, twenty-one
cases were reported to the board of health.
DIR. W. L. Coleman, of San Antonio, Texas.
who was ordered by the national board of
health to investigate the origin of the fever pre-
vailing in that city. has been quietly At work
to max. public the manner in which the germs
were introduced, yet his Investigations con-
vince him they were imported direct from
West Indies, and they passed the New Orleans
quarantine unchallenged and arrived in June.
The Howard association have 207 nurses At
tending 1876 families, one hundred and twenty
of whom are white and 81 7enty-six colored.
Their expenses daily aggregate $500. The
total deaths from yellow fever for the week
ending on the 10th, 46; to date l39. Great
satisfaction is felt throughout the country At
the prompt manner in which Memphis was
emptied of the greater part Of its citizens
without injecting other places.