Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
THE STRICKEN SOUTH.
Yellow Fever Grows Worse and Worse
P.llable Condition of Refugees.


Yellow Fever Grows Worso and Worse--
P'tiable Condition of RcAsgees.
Nine weeks have passed since the first
case OF yellow fever was DEVELOPER at the
Grand Union hotel in Jacksonville. The
official records up TO date show n total of
over l,745 cases and nearly 300 deaths.
The daily list OF cases and deaths during
the past 10 days has been fearful in city
the size Of Jacksonville with two-thirds OF
its people absent. 1t is now almost certain
that many hundred colored people have had
the fever and recovered without treatment
or physicians. The old theory that negroes
are not liable to contract yellow fever has
been exploded 1t has been demonstrated
that they are almost as susceptible TO attack
as the whites but the issue is rarely fatal
with them, probably never unless the fever
is complicated with organic diseases.
Bad weather or good weather makes no
difference The list of dead swels, and the
stricken are numbered by scores each day.
! The people are in a state of AFFECT terror,
and the panic has spread to every hamlet in
the state, and gone even across the line into
other states. Jacksonville is shut out from
! the world Other cities have barricaded
against her people, and wherever il is an
nounced that JacksonvilliaD has arrived
a stampede follows
! Reason is banished, and fear takes ITS
! place. What wonder that people are fsight-
! ened and panic stricken! Refugees telling
tales which their letters bring them, to peo-
! pie at places of refuge, spread panic in all
! directions, 80 the whole south is in state
! Of fear.
In jacksonville great difficulty has been
experiencedn supplying food and medicines
to all the needy people, the commissary
branch being established in various quar-
| ters Of the city The physicians have all
| been provided with slips, on which to write
orders for provisions for the needy people
whom they find on their rounds. Prescrip-
| tons have been abandoned, each physician
/ being supplied with all the necessary drugs
and other material, which they now carry
| with them and dispense as they go. Each
! doctor wears yellow badge TO distinguish
him. so that he may be stopped by those
! who need his services This was made
| necessary by the influx of strange ply
sicians. These changes were made M the
| suggestion of DR.. Porter, in command Of
| the government nurses
Outside of Jacksonville confusion worse
| COMPOUNDED hovers overs over all. St
| Augustine and Palatka have quarantined
! against each other, and Gainesville is
! isolated, although there have appeared no
| new cases in either place. Live Oak has
| placed a Gordon about herself, admitting no
one within her precincts, ana Alachua
| Brcvard and Polk counties will not receive
mail from Jacksonville even Way Cross,
| Ga, has rigldly quarantined against
! GAINESVILLE, Fernandina, Wibour and
! rigid house ito house inspection has been
/
been sounded to arouse the health authori-
| ties OF Savannah, Brunswick and other
! laces.
The common council of Chattanooga has
! offered IA reward of s25 forthe detection
! md conviction of any refugees from any in
fected district, which has had the effect of
! making every man, woman and child in Chat
| tanoOga "A detective and no stranger is allow
! ed TO enter the city who has not been sub
! lected 10 the most rigid scrutiny. Tho
board of health Of the city and county has
| ordered absolute exclusion OF any and all
| passengers or other traffic from the city,
! either by rail, by dirt roads or "cross lots"
! Any person violating said order shall pay "a
! fine of not more than 81 900 or be imprison'
ed or both in the discretion of the court
| having Jurisdiction. But the mayor of
! Chattanooga shall have authority to admit
such persons freights, trains or traffic as
| in his opinion may be free from Contagion
and infection and safe TO be admitted to
! Hamilton county. This order has been put
in force.
Every town in Mississippi and West Ten
nessee is closed to the world, and no trains
] are allowed to stop. There is an absolute
quarantine at Memphis against all points
east Of the Mississippi, and no trains are
coming in. The governor has ordered out
! the militia, and there will be an armed
] guard around the city.
Two train loads of refugees from Vicks-
! burg reached Memphis Sept. D. The first
| escaped quarantine, and 80 people were
scattered through the city. All the police
! force set TO work, arrested every suspicious
| person and sent him out of town. The sec
| Ond train containing 500, met with doors
] and windows locked, and was run through
the city at full speed.
The population of jackson, Miss, is utter
| ly demoraliZed. One-third of the popula-
ton has already left. The fever there Is
supposed 10 have originated from germs
| dormant in an old building.
| Decatur and adjoining towns in Alabama
are also panic-stricken, and the most rigid
quarantine has been established, and in
every town in Mississippi shot gun quar-
antiue prevails.
Louisville, KY, will not be quarantined,
| but opens its doors to refugees.
A meeting of the citizens sanitary asso-
| citation Of Jacksonville was held the other
night, and the following resolutions were
| adopted:
Resolved, That congress be urged to,at
once authorize and require the establish
ment of bureau in this city for the pur-
| pose of conducting Investigations relative
| TO the introduction and progress of yellow
! fever in Florida during the years 1857 and
1888; sanitary methods and other precau'
! tions against the spread of the disease;
| state of atmosphere at different times and
in different localities in the city, and all
other incidents and conditions relating to
| the epidemic that will be likely TO be of
| scientific and practical statistical value in
future in determining the methods Of quar-
antine, sanitation, disinfection and treat
ment of yellow fever
Resolved That our senators and repre-
sentatives in congress be requested to
bring this matter before both houses and
urge its immediate consideration. 1t is
desirable that the investigation shall take
a wider range than any other undertaken
| in connection with yellow fever in this
country and local and other conditions con-
nected Herewith.
To q. A. X. Post Commanders.
Representative Warner of Missouri, in
his official capacity of commander-in- chief
of the G. A. r. has issued the following: