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Yellow fever reports and relief efforts across the South
From New Orleans to Vicksburg and Memphis a flood of fever cases, deaths, and relief actions unfolds. Nurses are dispatched from Mobile to Kentucky and Tennessee while relief associations and donors fund meals, rations, and care. Authorities in New Orleans and Washington issue guidance on land filings as public health and logistics merge in a wide emergency.
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New Orleans
Fred. B. Moxon
Charity Hospital
Memphis
Ifty
John Cummins
Coahoma
Joseph Rogers
P. M. Dickinson
Alfonso
St. Agnes’ Academy
F. Risk, Jr
Carrie Davis
Emma Cole
Nashville
Citizens’ Relief Committee
Potter’s Field
Mobile
Holly Springs
Hickman
Forest
Canton
Bailey
Grenada
Geo. Gourier
M. D
Father Dafe
Vicksburg
Greenville
Young Men’s Christian Association
Howard’s
Peabody Relief Association
Geo. Burns
Southern Express Company
Jas. C. Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick Bros
Mary
Convent of Mercy
J. A. Levy
Mr. Galloway
Meridan ER. R
Jackson
Washington
Ellis and Gibson
Louisiana
Howard Association
Peabody Subsistence Association
New York
Henry F. Spaulding
Relief Committee
The
Chamber of Commerce
Brownsville
House of Bishops
McCoskrey
Wuereras
United States
Samuel Allen McCroskey
Custom House
James Hoffman
Chicago
Journal
Washington Dispatch
Treasury Department
England
Matamoros
Muntamoras
Rio Grande
Bates
Denver