The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-08-14
yellow Fever Notes.

from last year, now subject to their demand.
President Langstaf will draw for the amount.
Two new cases were reported L at New Orleans
on the 4th--a Mrs. Robert ]. Howell and her
little daughter, aged four years.
Chicago reports a case, in the person Of
Frank Victory, aged So years.
Deaths from yellow fever in Havana during
the past week were 1877, an increase of twenty
over the previous week. The total number of
deaths from this dread disease during July
were 537, against 504 the same month last year.
Since the beginning of the year 657 deaths have
occurred from this disease.
Aueusr 6.--The reports from Memphis to-day
IRE not SO encouraging. Eighteen new cases
were officially reported yesterday, and Eve
deaths. The towns Of the interior are running
short of provisions, and the poor in Memphis
are really suffering for want Of aid. Some of
the leading citizens hare prepared circulars ad-
dressed to the rich at watering places asking
them to send means to aid the poor who are in
actual want of food. Tho fever is gradually
spreading from the two infected districts, and
an increase in mortality is feared.
! At a meeting of the Committee Of Safety
yesterday evening it was resolved that rations
and medical attention be supplied to all camps
and societies alike, provided that all moneys or
contributions received by said camps or socie-
ties be turned over to the Safety Committee. ,
Reports from New Orleans to-day declare II
free from the scourge.
AUGUST 7.--Twenty-one new cases and three
deaths, is the report to-day. Father Fahey,
another Catholic priest, is numbered among
the dead. The prospects for q decrease in the
death rate, or for the abatement of the disease,
are very dis~couraging, the most sanguine even
abandoning all hope of the fever being dispelled
before the coming frost.
One of the chief annoyances to unfortunate
Memphis is the regulation of the mails-or the
lack Of regulations. Application has
been made to headquarters at Washington
for q daily mail, declaring that nothing but
o daily mail would satisfy the public, but .
deaf ear is turned to the appeal inasmuch as
the reply states that lit 1.-THE government) will
do all it can to forward the mails when they
can be forwarded without q violation Of the
quarantine regulations"
The Towards have added Two more physi-
clans to their force.
New Orleans reports o case To-day, Annie
Mahony, aged nine years.
AUGUST 8.-Thers is one report from Mem
phis to-day to the effect that there is swindling
going on among the physicians employed BY
the Howards, to two of whom the finger Of
suspicion points very strongly. 1t is said that
up to the very day the two professionals re-
ferred to were employed by the Towards, they
gave cut that there were No cases Of fever
among their patients, but from that moment
forward every sick person whom they called
upon was q "terrible case." The belief of
something rotten" is still further obtained in
the fact that the ratio Of deaths compared
to the number of sick, is not great enough.
Last nights dispatches announce twenty-fv
new cases and six deaths. The Towards are
working nobly, and daily add to their force
from twenty-five to thirty new nurses. The
Odd Fellows and Masons are expanding their
forces among the unfortunate of their respect
i've orders. The same may be said Of tho
knights of Honor.
Three thousand people are now drawing
%rations.
Two or three cases are reported from st.
Louis.
New Orleans furnishes still another case to-
day.
August 9.-Reports from fever-stricken
Memphis are daily growing gloomier and all
hope of the abatement of the disease before the
November frosts has been abandoned. "Thirty
new cases and eight deaths is the way the
dispatches read to-day. A steady d%rizzling
rain yesterday with the weather much cooler
seems to have added new fuel to the scourge.
Mckenzie, a neighboring town, has thrown
open her doors and invites. fleeing humanity to
seek refuge in her midst.
While the number Of colored people afflicted
compared to the number of whites are in the
ratio of perhaps two to one, it is a notable fact
that the colorsd nurses refuse to attend theil
own race under any circumstances This is one
of the chief difficulties the Towards are now
encountering.
President Plucket, of the State Board Of
Health, at Nashville, yesterday received &
dispatch from John johnson, superinten.
don't of Quarantine at Memphis, announcing
that the local board of Memphis would to-
day declare the fever epidemic, and warn al
absentses against returning to the city.
John johnson, Superintendent Of the Board
of Health at Memphis, issued al order thai
"until further orders, all are hereby instructed
not to permit persons to be landed from boat oil
other water craft at this port who have not hat
the yellow fever, and, in addition, cannot Civ,
satisfactory assurances that they are able Il
provide for themselves. The restrictions also
apply to oil railroads leading into the city O
Memphis"
The above order Is addressed to Inspector
and police officers on duty in Memphis.
And still another case from New Orleans.
Of ~seventy-fve deaths in Hayti, eleven wer,
Americans.
AUGUST lG.-The Board of Health of Mem
phis yesterday declared the fever epidemic, ant
a renewed effort will be made to check the ter
rible march of the disease. The number Of new
cases were twenty-ons, and six deaths. In ad'
dition to this there were eighteen ner
cases not officially reported in all, thirty-nin'
cases. The Howard Association have unde
their charge 146 sick--of these 100 are white
They have 1876 nurses on duty. At a meetinI
of prominent citizens held yesterday afternoon
DR.. Jerome Cochrane, representative of the Ma
tional Board of Health, submitted a letter whicl
had been written to S. J. Turner, Secretary Q
the National Board, in which he recommends
First, that the work of removing the un
acclimated population be continued until n
fuel is left there to feed the epidemic second, tn
removal of the sick as far as possible, to cam
hospitals outside the city limits; third, tn
isolation, as far as possible, of infected person
and places within the city ; fourth, the disinfec
ton, rs far as our existing knowledge makes
possible, of infected clothing, bedding an
dwellings. By resolution, these suggestion
, were adopted.
AUGUST 11.--Twenty- mine new cases an
twelve deaths yesterday at Memphis, and tn
day reported to be a decidedly gloomy one, wit
nothing of interest to add except the stead
march Of the disease and the slow but stead
increase of mortality. The Towards adde
two more physicians to their list, now maxim
n eight in all.
Nineteen business houses in st. Louis send
G ST ,555 to the fever-stricken in Memphis.
CAREFUL mother-"I wish I coul
break nv boy Johnny of the habit G