Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-22
TEEkO~ FEVER.

tlTty'sA new CASES reported. lns eXoCuS Vi
citz ms is in full progress. business is almost
entirely suspended, ard the general outlook is
gloomy. Many CT tho m ,s: prominen. retail
merchants have followed the example Of whole
salars, nDd closed their places Ct business. The
Ancient Order of Uoited Workiogusn end
Knights Of Honor arc also sending members
and their families Gu. Of the city.
Over G hundred negroes trudsed into The
city from the country YESTERDAY, thinking that
free ralioDs were to be issued to the inhabitants
and hoping to get share. Nothing OF the kind
is contemplated.
A man nam:d Lougar shot the blok part Of
his skull off because be c;ud kot Induce his
flther aud mother to leave the city. lie SAID
he preferred death 10 throa ooth's siege OF
tho scourge. 1t is though bit he will not die.
A dispatch from DR.. r. w. Mitchell, mem.
be- of the National Bosrl of Health, s,ys ::
"S1ca o'clock yesterday morning 10 CAGES OF
yellow lever have been reported, and deaths
have occurred. TWenty'aine cases had baen
previously reported, aud Six deaths had occur
red. The fever is SPREADING
Representative Casey Young and other
prominent gentlemen representing the southern
yellow fever relief committee 10 Washington
Their idon is 10 the event of another epidemic
to receive in that city suoh donations as may be
offered, and distribute the same to tho best ad'
vantage throuahcu. the Infected district at
the request of Representative Young the Sec
retury Of War yesterday evening forwarded to
Memphis l 500 tents aud raiors for 10 OOO
people for twenty days, to be used 10 aid OF the
soffarers frnn Yellow ieVer
Five suspicious cases OF fever hayo recently
occurred in tho Crecl family. near Mississippi
City, but after 90 investigation by medical
| experts they arc pronounced to DO masrIal
feVtr.
The State Boards Of Tennessee aid Ken
tucky are takiug act7c measures to cLtorco
| regulations through the whole Mississippi!
Valley.
New Orleans il declared to be pclf:cy free
from yellow fever. Ouly So deaths occurred
| last week from all diseases.
A case It supposed yellow fever was brought
to tho notice Of Tbs Health Authorities Of NV
York, yesterday. Tho house 10 which the pa
tient lay was put under surveilalc'. Two
seamcp, belonging to The American bark
Ap.oaio Sals, from Havana. we're tsken TO
the hospital at guarantee yesterday suffering
from ytlow fever. Ooe died duriog tho day.
The steward Of the steamship Niagara whc
was admitted to the hospital With yellow fever
some time since, was discharged to day. There
a,e DOW four nen remainiog in the hospital.
The brig L. f. Mups,n, from Cardc1as, Ju y
u.s. in latitude %, longitude T9' 5O\. saw O
brig flying signal of distress; ran 10 htr aad
fouod her to be tho big Akbar, from Havana
for New York with her captsiu and three men
sick with ycllo" fever, one mau havioE died tho
aay previous end her fjrmer oaptuln baVlIg
died in Havana. a navigator w5s put on
board.
1t is said that Secretary Thompson, Of The
navy. fav0rs killing yellow fever germ 10 Injected
stips By some PROCESS of supcrhea,iog. l. is
suggested that the ships be first towad out to
sea, saturated with GOAL oil and then set on
fire.
| LATER
NEW YORK. JaIy % "A Nashville, Tcou.,
sptcsl says: ID. f. NJ. Wright, U0Itcd
States sanitary Inspector arrived here FROM New
| Otlean5 yesterday. uoder orders OF the Naiiocsl
| most universally expressed opinion Of those
familiar with the yellow fever, that there is
great danger of tho yellow f.var spreading
over loo Mississippi Valley, AID that there is
| a very generally * dressed demand for The es-
| tabsbmans Of ar intelligent quaraolioe under
the rules Of the National Board, which every
where meets with approval with the exception
CT lis application 10 particular localities where
| the fever has heretofore prevailed. At these
| plsc,s physicians AID health authorities, tsmi
| liar with tie yellow fever, advise such qu.r
| rntne as will prohibit the stay OF p:cp.e clu .
| ing iror1 Infected places. Eat Tenurssoe and
Virginia. be Eegs uFc thought to DO tn, bos;
localities. within easy reach for teedog refugees
and as aft riding them better asylum, perhaps,
than any other region st the same d;s:erca from
points likely 20 30 injected. lis says The
health authorities Of New Orleans ore exerc;s-
| Ing great vigilance 10 prevent tic outbreak oil
| yellow fever there, and gro very watchtul OF
every suspicious case, a5d that any case occurring
will By promptly reported. Nashville will CO
tatlsh limited quarantine TO morrow BY tho
inspection Of incoming trains and the establish
ment cf hospital for tho Isolation OF any csso
that might bappep to como here.
Specials from Memphis gi7a varying &C.
counts, some OF them very cotf!oliGg re.
spec.irg the m1lignaoy of the fever.
Ooe account says: The fever is roa scat.
tered ever the city aud tho Indications ara that
before the week is ended there will be 20 part
of the city without its quota ofsickoess. Many
of the doctors still naiutsin that the dseas, is
Of mild type ofyel!ow fever; while others COZ,
tend that tits something else. Dr. Pu man, au old
| resident physician Of IS years standing says no
has five or six patients under treatment, but he
does not d:cover any yellow fever 10 the sick
ness, which would DO reported BY other doctors
as yellow fever. Gen. Smith. connected with
the Towards, says be has neighbors within Two
blocks of his residerca. who arc sick, aud be
cannot detect 10 all of them yellow fsver. al
though he believes there is yellow fever 10 too
city. he especially declares tbs. tho Webrum
family has not yet yellow fever. Tho General
mentioned other OASIS within his knowledge
that had not as yet been reported, and
said That although the patients wero very
sick CD the FIRST attack they we're now walking
about 10 their yards or On the streets to day,
which proves that they could not have had the
yeowf, Vel, FIR that disease doesnotreIax lls bold
80 easily as TO allow patients to move around
Inside of five days. Tho General also said
that tho Howtrds would hold no meeting nor
would they orgauz, until the situation
l,k ~ Ho-,rSa h.