Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-09-05
YellOW Fever.

WASHINGTON, September 3.-The
following summary of the progress
of yellow fever for the week ending
September 2nd, 1882, is furnished al
the office of the Surgeon General Of
the Marine Hospital, and is compiled
from official reports:
Brownsville, Texas, date, August
9th, cases 46, deaths 3; Ang. 2Sgh,
81 cases, s deaths; Aug. 29GU, 20
cases, 2 deaths 80 h, so cases, 3
deaths; 31st, 50 cases, deaths !;
Sept. lst, II cases, 3 deaths; I'd,
1O3 cases, 7 deaths; for the week,
1872 cases, 26 deaths, heretofore re-
ported 63l cases, 40 deaths) Total
during the epidemic, lib cases, Sc
deal rs. -..
Surgeon Murray of the Mar ne
Hospital Service arrived at Browns -
vile on August 27Uh with assistants,
nurses and supplies. He inmeCi>
ateIy organized ID hospital for sixty
patients. One of the assistants was
detailed to go to Point Isabel, where
some cases of fever were reported.
A Gordon extending from LAREDO
to Corpus Christi has been strengths
ened during tue week and protec-
ton established thirty miles from
Brownsville, extending from Santa
Mana on the Rio Grande TO
the mouth of Arroyo on the
Gulf. No known cases of fe
Yer exist North Of Arroyo
Croado at this date, nor have any
refugees escaped quarantine at the
outer Gordon. Two cases Of yellow
fever left Brownsville for the North
before the protection Gordon was
formed, but were stopped and de-
tanned by the guard. They subse-
quently died south OF the Gordon.
There is great destitution in
Brownsville, and the mayor is about
to issue another request for aid
Many of the poor decline to go tc
the hospital. The population O
Brownsville at the beginning of the
epidemic was about 5000.
PENSACOLA, Fla, August 25.-Tht
mate OF an Italian barque, Vicente
Accarml, died of yellow fever OF
board a vessel anchored in the bay
She had been go days in port. On
the same morning there were two
cases on the Italian barque Rosa B.
This vessel arrived from Baltimore
July 2ls., and was placed in quaran-
tine. she cleared from the custom
house August 18th, with a clear book
OF health, but returned with fever on
board. August 2Sth there was a
case Of yellow fever at the Marine
Hospital contract. This, however,
was not the first in the city, for pri>
Vate physicians report eight other
cases In various places in the city,
and one death. On August 29th
tnere were two cases and one death;
SVth, three cases and one death;
o1st three cases and no deaths;
September 1st, two cases and two
deaths; September End, no new cases
and one death
a. BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, September a.
Inc lever continues to increase in
tnls city. For the twenty-four
hours ending at 10 o'clock this
morning, there were seventy new
cases cases and forty deaths reported.
olnee then, F. Henry Ballack, a
PlUTMlnent merchant has died. -r
d, lhe lever at AIatatnoras is at about
'ne same stage Seven deaths have
occurred within the past twenty four
nours. The weather is cold and
uAlnp, with some rains at intervals,
'nG the outlook IS not favorable
WASHINGTON, September 4-Act>
ING Postmaster General Hatton has
received the following dispatch, un-
pef date Of Pensacola, Fla, Septem-
Der z: II do not believe we have or
nave had this season any yellow
lever.
4olgne9 "WM. F. LEE,
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