Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-24
PESTILENCE In THE AIR.
PHILADELPHIA HAS A SENSE
LESS CHOLERA SCARE


at New orieans-St. Louis Catches !
Panic on Hearing the News-Deathe
and Alarm In France as Great A.
Ever.
PARIS, July 2s.--There were twenty.
one deaths from cholera at MarseilIes last
night, and fifteen at Toulon. several
apothecaries at Toulou threaten Ia close
their shops because the city Is distribut.
ing medicines free.
AT Nidabaun there was one death to-
day from cholera, and there was also one
each at Sigues and Brignoles.
A CHOLERA CONFERENCE ADyocATrD.
WASHINGTON, July 23.-Health officer
Townsend has received letter from See
retary Rauch Of the Illinois State Board
of Health, dated July II, running thus;
ut occurs to me that, in view OF the situa.
tion in relation to cholera in Europe.
session of the Sanitary Conference would
be timely and profitable. Concerted ae.
ton now, while there is yet opportunity.
might be OF great value In securing the best
attainble sanitary condition of the coun-
try, as well as in possibly devisinQ some
general and efficient system of super
vision and notification at all seaports.
nave, therefore, to suggest that a session
OF the conference be held in Washington
city on or about Aug. 5 or @, and thai An
invitation be extended to the health
officers or other quarantine authorities of
all seaports and boundary towns, to the
health authorities of all large cities IN
the state which have State Boards of
Health, and to the Provincial Board Of
Health of Ontario.'
DIR. Townsend has responded with a
hearty approval.
All the public schools at Toulon and
Marseilles will be closed tomorrow,
The French Academy Of Medicine pro-
poses to hold an international congress 70
discuss the prevention and cure of chol-
era. DIR. Koch has asked that the cor
gress meet in the Berlin Medical College.
The commission has established iaza-
ret III the Moabit quarter with 500 beds.
1t has 80 organized q sick transport
service, nd issued a series Of rules for
guidance in guarding against cholera.
There IS no sign of cholera in this city.
Owing to the closure of Eastern ports.
from Suez to Hong Kong, against vessels
from Toulon and Marseilles, vessels Of the
French transport service have been
transferred to Brest. The necessity of
soon furnishing fresh supplies to Admiral
CourDets squadron causes the govern
ment to hesitate about giving orders for
active operations at Foo Chow.
THE DEATHS AT MARsEILLEs.
MARsEILLEs, July 23.-In the twenty
four hours ending at 8 O'clock tonight
there have been forty-four deaths from
cholera here.
PHILADELPHIA HAS A CHOLERA SCARE.
PHILADELPHIA, July 23.-An inquest
was held to-day on the body of Addison
b. Ziegler, A years old who died sud-
denly ON Monday and whose death was
supposed to be due TO Asiatic cholera.
The family physician at first declared il
case OF sporadic cholera. 1t was shown,
however, that the deceased had eaten
plentifully of green apples, watermelons
and other fruit. The post mOrtem ex-
animation showed that death was due TO
acute cholera m0rbus and verdict was
rendered accordingly.
YELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, July 23-The three
year-oid boy of Mr.. Patterson, at No. SO
Third street, died last night, and the
physician in attendance gave q certificate
stating that death had been caused by
yellow fever. The President of the Board
of Health and several physicians concur
in this opinion. A special meeting Of the
Board of Health was held to-day. and
President Holt and DIR. Solomon were ap-
pointed committee to investigate the
cause. DR.. Bemis, Of the National Board
of Health, and DR.. Godfrey, of che United
States Marine Hospital Service, were in
Yited to attend the investigation. The
committee will make a post mOrtem ex-
animation, the result of which viii be dis
closed at a session of the Board Of Health
to be held tonight.
REsULT+oF THE INVESTIGATION.
NEW ORLEANS, July 90, II p. M.-Tha
Board of Health tonight met and c0nsId-
cred the case of the child Lafeit Patter-
son, who died July % at No. 80 Third
street, in the Fourth district in this city.
The Board of Health officially promulgates
this statement: 'sThe symptoms during
the last thirty-siX hours of the illness or =
the child, according to the observations Of
the attending physicians, were
those of a sporadic case of
yellow fever. But the pathological
evidence furnished by careful examina-
commission appointed by this board, has
not sustained that conclusion. The
Board of Health, therefore, is COM
PEELED to entertain a doubt as TO
the positive nature OF this case,
and must publish it as a suspicious
case Of yellow fever" The board, together
with the Auxiliary Sanitary Association,
is taking every precautlon through sani-
tatiOn Of the neighborhOOd and Of the en-
tire district. 1t seems that DR.. II. d.
Schmidt, the patholOgist of the Charity
Hospital, examined the black Yomit
with a microscope and declared
that it was not the black yomit of yellow
fever. DIR. Godfrey, Of the Marine Hos
pital service, and DIR. Solomon, Of the
Board of Health, also stated that the case
was not yellow fever, and it is said that
this is also the opinion of DR.. Finney, the
Coroner who made the autopsy. DR..
Bemiss, Of the National Board OF Health,
although invited, was not present at the
post mortem examination. The board
passed the following resolution:
That the President of this board telegraph
the Surgeon General Of the Marine Hospital
Service, the President Of the National Board
of Health and the State health authorities Of
Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Arkan-
sas, Tennessee and Illinois that suspicious
case of fever has occurred at New Orleang
which was reported as yellow fever by the
attending physicians, but was not confirmed
as such upon post mortem examination by
Or. II. D. Schmidt, pathologist OF the Char
ity Hospital.
DR.. Godfrey states that he will, in his
report to Surgeon General Hamilton, most
positively assert that the case was not
yellow fever.
ST. LOUIS EXCITED.
ST. LOUIS, July-23.-A furry Of excite
ment and much apprehension and dread
was produced on 'Change to-day by the
report that yellow fever had broken out
in New Orleans. When it was ascer-
tanned through dispatches from a reliable
source that only child had died from a
disease supposed to be yellow fever the
excitement subsidized, and matters re-
lapsed into their usual condition. There
was a break in wheat, however, and
provisions showed great weakness, but
corn and oats were higher and firm. The
assignment. Of Wear. Boogh a Co. also
had some effect on the market, and pro-
duced a general feeling Of uncertainty,
but it seemed to pass away with the fever
scare.