Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-10-31
Yellow Fever.

PENSACOLA, Oct. 29-Thirty three
new cases of yellow fever and one
death were reported yesterday.
These figures indicate an abatement.
The only doubt is whether it will be
permanent or temporary in case of
continued absence of the frost The
weather yesterday was warm and
somewhat unsettled Total number
of cases to Saturday is 2,199, and of
deaths 172. DR. Hargis, president
of the Board of Health, is again On
duty. DIR. Wesiting, secretary, is
still disqualified. Messrs. Brent &
Walthall are both on their feet after
temporary suspension of activity
from the slight attack.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, October 29.-
The cases of fever developed lately
are pronounced by the physicians
malarial and not yellow fever Some
persons just arrived are, however,
down with both diseases, but are do
ing well. Sickness is no longer
needed, it having been considered as
over sometime ago, The mail com
munications and politics are most
engrossing public topics. The wealth.
er is hot.
New ORLEANS, October pa spe-
cial from Pensacola to the Picayune
says: While it is evident that the fe-
yer material has been exhausted,
there has undoubtedly, been more
new cases developed than those re-
ported by only two physicians. To
day is the first day that the physi,
clans have had anything like res-
pite from a constant strain upon
their energies since the beginning of
the plague, sixty three days ago.
Though the report of new cases to-
day is regarded as imperfect, it is
satisfactory evidence that we are
about through with the pestilence.
New YORK, October 30.--A special
to the Times from New Orleans says:
DR.. Joseph Jones, president of the
board of health, received yesterday
a communication from DIR. r. Nj.
Swearingen, State health officer of
Texas, in which he says: ''The pres
ence of yellow fever IN Cuba, Pensa
cola and along. our western border has
caused the Governor to extend the
quarantine until cold weather. 1
have been informed that your honor
able board intends to suspend on
first of November. 1t will be uses
less for Texas to maintain quaran,
tine against infected places after your
port is open to them. In consulting
Governor Roberts this morning, he
instructed me to give notice that he
will declare quarantine against New
Orleans if you do raise quarantine at
the time above mentioned"
In reply, DIR. Jones addressed
communication to DR.. Swearingen,
in which he said: During. the hiss
tory of New Orleans, from 170S to
1882, no instance has been
known of the origin, lodgment or
spread in the epidemic from yellow
fever after the first of November.
The board of health, of the State of
Louisiana, has rot and will not sus-
pend quarantine at the Mississippi
quarantine station. Every vessel en-
tering the mouth of the Mississippi
is subject to thorough quarantine in
spection, and if necessary detention
and disinfection. Throughout the
entire year no vessel with foul bill of
health, or with infections or
contagious disease abroad, whether
smallpox, Asiatic cholera, typhus
fever or yellow fever will be ad-
mitted from any healthy or infected
port in Texas, Florida, Mississippi
or Alabama; nor from any other
State or country. In view of the
preceding facts, quarantine against
the healthy port of New Orleans
during the month of November
would be unwise and unjust, and
destructive at once of those friendly
and dcommercialrelati which should
ever exist between the great States
OF Texas and Louisiana.