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The Yellow Fever

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 12.

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The Yellow Fever.

The ravages of this scourge are increasing. Advices from Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 4, say that city is one vast charnel-house. Ninety-three interments from yellow fever are reported within twenty-four hours. In New Orleans the total number of cases to Sept. 6, are 4,604; deaths, 1,400. The fever has spread all over the city, and in localities never before visited. Holly Springs, Miss., is nearly deserted. The distress throughout the fever district is very great, and urgent appeals for help are made. In some towns it has been thought that if the scourge continued, it would be necessary to cremate the bodies, as it would be impossible to bury so many.