Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-31
YELLOW FEVER.
The Situation Improved at Pensacola
Correspondence on the Subject of Quar-
antine.

NEW ORLEANS, October 3O.-A special
from Pensacola to the Rcayune says:
"While It is evident that the fever material
has been exhausted, there have undoubted-
ly been more new cases developed than
those reported by only two ply
sicians to-day. 1t is the first dav
that the physicians have had anything
like a respite from a constant strain upon
their energies since the beginning of the
plague, siXty-three days ago. Though the
report OF no new cases to- daV is regarded
as imperfect, 1t is satisfactory evidence that
we are about through with the pestilenc ce."
NEW YORK, October 30 "A Times special
from New Orleans says: CDR. joseph Jones.
President Of the Board of Health, received
yesterday q communication from Dr. K. M.
Swesringen, State Health Officer of Texas.
in which he says: The presence of yellow
fever In Cuba, Pensacola, and along the
western border has caused the Governor
to order quarantine until cold weather l
have been informed that your honorable
board intend to suspend on the first OF No
vember. It will be useless for us to main.
tain quarantine against infected places after
your port Is open to them. In consulting
with Governor Roberts this morning, he in
structed me to give notice that he would
declare quarantine against New Orleans II
you do raise the quarantine at the time
above mentioned
'In reply DR.. Jones addressed commu-
nicstton to DR.. Swearingen, which says:
During the history of New Orleans.
from 1902 to 1882, no instance has been
known OF the origin, lodgment or spread in an
epidemic form ofyellow fever after the 1st of
November. The Board of Health of the
State OF Louisiana has not and will not sus-
pend quarantine at the Mississippi quaran-
tine stations. Every vessel entering the
mouth OF the Mississippi is subject to a
thorough quarantine inspection, and, II
necessary, to detention through the entire
year. No vessel with foul
bill OF health or with infectious or conta-
gious disease aboard, whether smallpox,
Asiatic cholera, typhus fever or yellow
fever, will be admitted from anv
healthy or infected port in Texas, Flori-
da, Mississippi or Alabama, nor from
any other State or country. In view of the
preceding facts, the quarantine against New
Orleans during the month OF November
would be useless and unjust, and destructive
at once OF those friendly commercial rela-
tions which should ever exist between the
great State of Texas and Louisiana"
PENSACOLA, October 30.-Nineteen new
cases OF yellow fever are reported, of which
six are at Nix's on the Perdido, sixteen
miles from. Fensacola, where DR.. CraveY
was sent to-day by the Board of Health.
There has been only one death. The total
to date is 2,227 cases and 174 deaths. The
weather is very warm.
The bark Arturo, Captain Maunero, from
st. Vincent, and the brigantine Kate, Capt.
McIunis, from Cienfuegos, arrived at the
quarantine station to-day.
NEW ORLEANS, October 30.-The ficdg-
~'ae'S Pensacola special reports 19 new cases
OF yellow fever aud death. ''This confirms
the opinion entertained that the end is near.
While we are looking and hoping for better
things, no positive predictions can be made
as to the outcome. An early frost would
settle the trouble. Without that interven-
tion the material must exhaust itself. Some
OF the Oldest resident practitioners seem to
be of the opinion that the material is about
used up. So. at all events, the agony is
nearly over"
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, October 3O.-There
are three cases of yellow fever at Fort
Brown, but they are doing we'll. There was
one case here to-day. The troops at Camp
Yturria continue in good health. Some
cases Of fever have broken out at Santa
Rosalie rancho, three miles from town. The
weather is hot.