Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-29
NEW ORLEANS.
That Single Case of YeIIow-Fever I'm the
Charity HOspitaI-The State and
National
Health Authorities Doing All They Can
10 Preserve the Health of
the City.

Special Correspondence of the Appeal
New ORLEANS, June 27.-On the morning
of the 18Th the steamer Marco Aurelia ar
rived at this post from Havana. Among the
crew was young Englishman named Henry
Forbes, aged about twenty years. On the 22d
Forbes was taken i'll, and on Sunday last he
was admitted to ward No. 81, in the Charity
Hospital, under care of DR.. Eddy Jones, who
diagnosed his disease, and on Monday de-
clared it to be yellow-fever. DR.. Jones re-
ported the case TO DIR. Roaldes, the physician
in charge, who also examined the case, and
after satisfying himself in regard to the mat
teE-sent for DIR. Bemiss, DIR. Jones, president
of The Board of Health, and DIR. Chaille,
representative of the National Board OF
Health, who visited the hospital, snd, after
examining the case carefully, concurred in
the diagnosis of DIR. Jones. Several other
physicians also visited the hospital during
the day, including DR.. Austin, the well-known
yellow-fever authority, and all agreed that it
was a genuine case of yellow-fever.
The history of the case, is briefly, as
follows: Forbes shipped at Montevideo about
two months ago on Spanish brigantine, the
Retta, bound for Havana, and touching on
the way at Porto Rico. At Havana Forbes
became dissatisfied, lett the Retta and shipped
on the Marco Aurelia as assistant cook. He
was in Havana five days, aud was on shore a
day and a half. The Aurelia, which is a new
English iron steamer of All tons register,
under command Of Captain Thomas Morgan,
plies between Truscillo and Cuba in the cattle
trade, and is owned in Truscillos, Spanish
Honduras. She reached Havana on June
9th and left June 18th, in ballast, having no
cargo at all, en- route to New Orleans to have
her cattlepens refitted, and reached the Mis-
sissippi Quarantine Station June 18th, at
night, where she was detained until the 18th,
when she was discharged, and came up to
this city on Sunday morning and anchored
on the Algiers side of the river. On Tues
day Forbes was discharged, and next day
shipped on the steamer Commander, plying
between here and New York. He was
taken sick on Thursday morning, and went
to sailors clearinghouse, thence he was
sent to the hospital. As soon as the disease
developed the patient was isolated in the
hospital and DIR. Watkins, sanitary director
OF the Sanitary Association, assisted by the |
Board of Health Inspectors, thoroughly fumi- |
gated the ship. The house to which Forbes |
went when first taken was also thoroughly |
fumigated. The foregoing covers about all |
the facts, as near as your correspondent could |
learn. The opinion was unanimously ex- |
pressed by all the physicians who saw the |
patient, that the disease would end with this |
case. No alarm was created by it, although |
it was generally known, and hardly caused a |
ripple in the dull monotony prevailing here. |
MS Is accounted lOf Oy tue lact THAT IL was |
remembered there were several cases at New 1
York last year, and also at one or two other |
ports, and no harm resulted. All of the crew |
of the Marco Aurelia have left the city with |
the exception of three, who are in AlgieTs,
and are Swallowed by the health authorities. |
A message has been received from the gov
ernor authorizing the extension Of quaran-
tine to twenty days, and is now under con-
sideration by the Board of Health. 1 will |
keep you fully advised as TO any new devel-
opmenls here. Jew.