The yellow fever epidemic of 1878, in Memphis, Tenn. : Embracing a complete list of the dead, the names of the doctors and nurses employed, names of all who contributed money or means, and the names and history of the Howards, together with other data, and lists of the dead elsewhere / By J.M. Keating.
- Keating, John McLeod, 1830-1906
- Date:
- 1879
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The yellow fever epidemic of 1878, in Memphis, Tenn. : Embracing a complete list of the dead, the names of the doctors and nurses employed, names of all who contributed money or means, and the names and history of the Howards, together with other data, and lists of the dead elsewhere / By J.M. Keating. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![unless we mak? f5ome provision for tliera. which we have done by including incur dona- tion uccount, the sum of §2,323.36. Our commissary department is still open, with supplies sufficient to last for some time, which we intend to distribute to the needy. Your committee do not believe that the yellow fever is indigenous to this countrv, but that it is introduced from the West Indies or tropical ports through our soutliern ])orts, thence over the southern portion of our country. And we would most earnestlv appeal to our brothers of the Order to recommend the establishment of a national quar- antine, at such times as we may be threatened with its introduction from infected for- eign ports, and that in no way but the interposition of our government in this matter will save us from the intiiction of many repetitions of this terrible scourge. Wc would call attention to the subjoined report of the Special Trustees of the Yel- low Fever Fund of 1873. EEPORT OF EECEIPTS. Arkansas $341 00 Alabama 309 00 British Columbia, (British Pro v.) 60 00 California 3,385 00 135 00 200 00 166 75 02 00 685 00 222 25 Illinois 1,570 00 Colorado ■ Connecticut Delaware Dakota Territory. Georgia Iowa Indiana Kentucky Kansas Montana Territory. Michigan Massachusetts Mississippi Minnesota Maryland Missouri 910 00 200 00 344 48 53 50 105 00 58 34 25 00 25 00 619 00 500 00 136 00 52 00 337 00 Maine $408 89 Nebraska New Hampshire New Brunswick, (British Prov. New Jersey 200 00 New York 825 00 Nova Scotia, (British Province).. 392 76 North Carolina 96 25 Ohio 850 00 Pennsylvania. 532 00 Rhode Island... South Cai'olina. 130 00 6 00 Tennessee 2,161 40 Texas Utah Territory. Virginia 731 50 125 00 130 00 Wyoming Territory 290 60 345 00 285 30 Wisconsin . Unknown friends in the U. S Whole am't of cash rec'd to date.. $18,061 57 We have received from the General Relief Committee, I. O. O. F., of Cincinnati, a bounteous supply of provisions. Also from the Odd Fellows of Staunton, Va., Ruther- ford Station, Tenn., Kno-xville, Tenn., the Citizens' Relief Committee, and Dr. D. F. Good- year, acting mayor of this city. We are under very many obligations to the Howard and other associations, they, with great courtesy, having honored our orders for sup- plies, etc. Friends and brothers, accept our grateful thanks. The provisions sent from Cincinnati cost, there, .$416.51. REPORT OF DISBURSEMENTS. For nurses $7,143 31 For burial expenses 6,749 10 For physicians 2,195 50 For supplies 2,511 20 For expenses 2,677 80 Donations to sick and destitute Odd-Fellows and their families.. 4,836 81 Total disbursements $26,113 72 Cash disbursed in excess of the receipts of 1878 8,052 15 The donation account includes money donated to Grenada, Miss., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Brownsville, Tenn. Supplies were also sent to our suffering brothers of Tus- cunibia, Ala. Your committee wrote to the afHicted cities and towns of Mississippi and Tennessee, offering aid to our suffering brothers if needed. The expense account is composed of the amounts paid for horses and vehicles for the superintendent of nurses in visiting the sick and in burying the dead, printing, post- age hire of clerks, and secretary and superintendent of nurses, and incidental expenses. The committee, excepting those mentioned above, received no compensation for their services. A portion of the receipts per State of Tennessee, that were sent by Grand Secretary J. R. Harwell, from Nashville, was from different States,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21354017_0418.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
