previous next

The yellow fever at Wilmington, N. C.

The epidemic at Wilmington is not abating. On Monday there were 43 new cases. The weather is very warm, and the thermometer on that day stood at 82 in the shade. Drs. North, Wragg, Huger, and White, of Charleston, have been permitted by the Surgeon General to report at Wilmington temporarily for duty, for the relief of yellow fever patients there. Seven more purses have arrived there, and four Sisters of Mercy, in charge of Rev. Dr. Corcoran, of Charleston. The Journal says:

‘ We would beg to suggest to our friends in the country that our stores are closed and our supplies cut off so that there is much that money will not do. We want provisions, comforts for the nurses coming on, and for the poor who cannot buy even with money. We want also delicacies for the sick. Things of this kind sent by railroad, consigned to the Mayor of Wilmington, might do much good.

’

The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. October 3, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Wragg (1)
White (1)
Huger (1)
Drs (1)
Corcoran (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: