The Yellow Fever | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 19, 1878

The Yellow Fever.

The latest reports from the South show this terrible scourge to be still raging in all its fury. The cool weather, so anxiously looked for in hopes that it would stay the disease, only seems to aggravate it and make the patients worse. Human skill utterly fails to check the plague, and the governors of the States are naming days of prayer, and urging the people to call upon God to stay the disease. People are flying from the stricken districts, and many die daily for want of proper nursing. The most urgent calls are made for help, and the cry is being responded to from all parts of our country, and money and provisions are being sent in large quantities.

At Memphis, the situation is deplorable in the extreme. The daily death-rate is upwards of one hundred, and new cases are continually being reported. The cities most affected by the disease are New Orleans, Memphis, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, and Holly Springs; but it is spreading all over the States of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee. But few cases are reported at the North, and these brought it with them from the South.

Many noble physicians and nurses are acting the part of the good Samaritan, and taking their lives in their hands and going to the aid of the sufferers.