Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-12
THE YELLOW-FEVER.
The Liars will COntinue to Libel and
SensatiOnaiize In Spite of the Fact
that the South was Never
Healthier than at
This Moment.
Items AflOat In st. Louis and East Ten
nessee-What the National Board
of Health have to Say on the
Subject-They do not
Apprehend another
Epidemic.
From an Appeal Correspondent

From an Appeal Correspondent
WOOSTER, O., June Any apology 70
writing this letter Is to do Justice wher
wrong was intended and to warn other
from perpetrating malicious scandal Tn,
kind feeling manifested for me by many o
my old friends in Memphis, is another rea
son l should denounce her defamers
stopped at Cairo on my way east. While
there visited the store of those respected
gentlemen, Messrs. Barclay Brothers, wheI
| met person from the house of Richardson
q Co., st. Louis. Learning / was recently
from Memphis, he commenced speaking oil
the danger person incurred by going there
that ne knew deaths from yellow fever were
occurring there every week. | told him he
must be mistaken, that l had conversed with
some or the leading physicians of the city
who had informed me that it was perfectly
healthy, and that he done grievous wrong
IN stating what he did, but he insisted thai
his information was more reliable than mine
The following paragraph, from a recent let
ter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, signed
TOURIST, strengthens my assertion, and
shows that the st. Louis gentleman's infor.
nation was inaccuracies:
This Is the pleasantest part of the year for trl
TO the southern cities, and hundreds availiDe
Memphis This city is in excellent SANITARY con
snd ea saG sasn 1t has
from abroad, and business is brisk. DOGGY.
Gabble In East Tennessee.
Knoxville Tribune: Reports of the exist
ence Of yellow-fever at various points south
find their way into the newspapers almost
daily. In our East Tennessee news clippings
will be found a statement from a woman
who reached Cleveland from Memphis few
days ago, who declares her husband recently
died in the latter place of yellow-fever, and
that the dread disease undoubtedly is there.
The papers of Memphis almost daily deny
emphatlcally the existence of any fever there,
and stand pledged to publish the fact of its
presence upon Its first appearance. Four
cases were reported IN New Orleans last week.
but the physicians who waited upon them
deny their being the dreaded disease. A
statement has also been made at st. Louis,
upon the alleged authority of telegraph
operator, that there were several cases of the
fever at Vlcksburg, but this report. Ike all
the others, needs confirmation. 1t is not
probable that any yellow-fever exists in the
United States, and 1t is to be sincerely hoped
that the country will escape another vista
ton OF 1t for long time to come"
An EpIdeEaIc Rot Expected this sum-
mer.
Washington special to the Cincinnati
Commercial: The members of the National
board of health are not agreed as to the
probabilities OF yellow-fever In the south this
summer. They generally agree, however,
that If it comes In epidemic form, the east
ern coast will be as apt to take turn with it
as the lower Mississippi valley. There is a
feeling of insecurity about Washington, for
there IS much here that would invite the
fever. The altitude is Iow-but few feet,
In fact above dead-sea level-which is al
ways inviting to yellow-fever, the history of
the disease being that it is more difficult to
control on a sea-level than a few hundred
feet above. At six hundred feet above, it is
very rare that the disease is troublesome.
The members of the National board of health
are making every exertion to keep out the
disease this season, and they believe that
rigid quarantine will do it. They do not SO
much fear the fever poison which may have
Kept over In New Orleans, Vicksburg and
Memphis. for they do not believe that lt will
spread. They think it very probable that
there will be few cases in these cities
during the not weather, but that
1t will not spread unless there are fresh i'm
portatlohs of it from countries where the dis
ease is domestic institution It is said
hat there is no instance of the disease having
Kept over from one summer to another In
ibis country and assumed epidemic form the
second time. 1t is always from fresh i'm
of the poison from countries where
{ Is domestlcated. Members of the board say
hat this has been an excellent spring to bring
'ut the fever poison if there is any of it left
'ver' from last season. The spring in the
outh has been essentially tropical-that is,
lot and dry-the very weather most favorable
% fever. Reports from cities scourped last
ear indicate panlcky feeling among the in
and all preparing to move if the
ever advances upon them. The appearance
i the fever In epidemic form would be the
lgual tor stampede. But the weight of
opinion among medical men here is that the
-isltation OF last year will not be renewed.
Inless on the eastern coast