Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-29

stract reports from foreign countries
received by the surgeon general Of the
marine hospital service
HAvANA.-Deaths from yellow fe-
yer, week ending May 18th, s; small
pOx, 70.
HAYTI.
PORT AU PRINCE.-Yellow fever
still prevails in the city and is con-
sidered to be increasing. A fever,
known as La mauvaise fever" is very
prevalent, and many persons have
died, but while it Is said to be distinct
from yellow fever, it is even more
feared by the people than the latter.
The State Department has received
information that the yellow fever pre-
vailed at POrt-au-P Prince fifteen ears
ago, but that since hat period there
has been no temperance of the dis
erse until now. In regard to the SAN
itary condition of Port-au-P Prince it is
remarked by Minister Langston that
the streets are constantly foul. and
that not even police regulations of any
sort are enforced" There is no regu-
lation to oblige even the flthiest per-
sons to remove deposits from the
streets, nor from the cutters or side.
walks in front of their doors, and
the harbor is also full of foul matter
Of every sort" The fact of the exis-
tence ofthis mass of putrefying animal
and vegetable matter in one of the
hottest climates, taken in connection
with the absence of yellow fever from
the city for the last fifteen years, fur.
DISHES presumptive evidence, at least.
that deposits of filth alone, even when
saturated with moisture and heated.
are incapable of generating yellow
fever. The fever which is apparently
produced by the filth of the city, while
quite fatal, is said to differ materially
from yellow fever in all essential par
tieulars.
MINIAGONE. = The United States
consular agent reports, through Minis.
ter Langston, thatyellow fever exists in
the city, and a large number of sea-
men have died. 1t is reported that
out of the twelve cases on board the
Italian bark MedoTa seven or eight
have died. One of the crew of the
American schooner Hattie N. Howes
died on the 3D. inst, and the vessel
sailed for.New York, having on board
another patient who was convalescent.
BRAZIL.
The United States consul at Santos
reports, through the State department.
under date of April Is, that sporadic
cases of yellow fever have recently
occurred at that port, and several
deaths have occurred, among them a
sailor, one of the Grew of the bark
Caro-, Of Philadelphia, on the 18th of
April, and the captain of a British
vessel, (name not given on the 18th.
The brig Ottawa, bound for Bull
river, and the steamer Hipparchus
Belgium, cleared without bills Of
health, the consul declining to give
such bills for the present, He Invites
attention to the rainfall of that district
as a probable factor in tho varying de-
grees Of violence in the epidemics of
yellow fever in the last eight years, the
yirulence of the epidemic being, in
his opinion, in inverse ratio to thc
amount of flushing the streets receive
during the rains, In this connection
it may DO noted that in Africa, in the
region Of country affected by the
typhus epidemic, the %consuls have
spoken of the very great rainfall, the
country having been inundated, the
bridges washed away, and the com.
munication between the larger towns
and the country in many i0stances
suspended altogether