Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-18
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Progress Of the Fever.
THE 2TAL CASES UP TO DATE ees,
DEATHS 1873.
IN A CRIPPLED CONDITION.
The Board of Health. Which Consisted of
Fiyo Members. Ipr. Mitchell Is the
Only One Remaining Able
for Duty.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. l7.-There
deaths reported to the board of health
for the twenty-four hours en[ling at O p.
m. Total cases to date, 9a5; deaths, 1875.
Fourteen nurses, sent by Harry Miner
from New York. and twenty-three from
New Orleans, have arrived. Among the
new cases are Col. Wbitetield Walker,
Internal wen collector for Florida,
and Mrs. Walker. Col. Walker is doing
well, The weather is still unsettled.
Main street was covered anew with lime
yesterday.
The board of health is badly crippled,
but is doing all it can. The board con.
sisted of Drs. Neal Mitchell, r. p. Dan.
iel, Henry Bacon; ii. Lengle and III. r.
Kenny. DR.. Lengle is dead, DR.. Daniel
very i'll, and DR.. Kennedy's wife is very
i'll at his home, several miles out of the
city. This leaves DR.. Mitchell to do most
of the work at present. All the physi.
clans of the city are oyerworked, and
when disease fastens upon them they are
ill-ttted to resist 1t.
The large list of new cases wassstart-
ling. but is partly attributed to more ac-
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increased number of physicians at work.
The weather is better and somewhat
cooler. 1t is hoped that the rainy season
liz nearly over. Most of the sick are re.
ported as doing we'll. There are only
-four or FIVE cases regarded as critical.
The orphans are becoming numerous.
Were 1t not for the many Kind and gen.
erous good Samaritans here, their loi
would be a hard one. The convent has
a dozen, ana several others have beer
adopted by wealthy residents,
The heavy air of oppression and de
%spondency, ~occasioned by thedeaths of the
three prominent citizens, still continues,
and the faces of the people are sad and
grave. The circle is narrowing rapidly,
and soon the feyer's food will be almost
exhausted. Every mi is prepared for
the worst. and many have arranged Their
earthly affairs, SO that If the king of ter,
rors did conquer them their families
would be in fair condition and not suffer.
The twelve young people from East
Jacksonville, who constitute the popula-
tion of Camp Potter, are all we'll. There
is good fishing at the camp, which is on
a trout stream. There are thirty-fiye
patients at Sand Hill hospital, and room
for fifty or seyenty-fiYe more. DIR. Sollace
Mitchell proposes TO stay there all the
time after this until frost comes. He
has been obliged to help the city physi-
clans hitherto. Rev. J.. B. Lyman, of
st. Paul's church, Key West, Fla, who
has had the yellow fever, has been sent
for by Bishop Weed, and is expected by
the first steamer. ST. Lnke's hospital
has room for thirteen more patients and
is in an excellent condition.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 17.-During
the past twenty-four hours ending at
noon, there were t%wenty-three new cases
apd,four deaths. The greatest sufferers
at present are the colored people, and as
they live in novels Id the most unsanl.
tary condition, 1t is feared the fatalities
will be fearful.