Abstract

The Week

The article provides information about various social and political developments taking place across the world. The death of a person from yellow fever in Memphis, Tennessee, followed speedily by three cases of the disease in another family has produced a panic in the Southwest. There was a general rush of frightened people to get out of Memphis; the governor of Texas issued a proclamation quarantining the State against "Memphis and other points which may become infected"; quarantine was generally established at all points along the Mississippi River; the Cincinnati Board of Health at once appropriated $16,000 with which to" place the city in the best possible sanitary condition," and similar precautions were taken where similar need for them was felt; the Chicago grain and provision market declined.