Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-31
YeIIoW-Fcver. 4

NEW ORLEANS. August 80. The Times
Democrats Jackson Miss special
says The following order, approved by
the Governor. YVES issued to-day On
account Of the increase of yellow-fever
at Jacksonville. Fla, it has, in the
opinion Of the Executive Committee OF
the State Board Of Health, become ne
cessary to adopt more stringent measures
for the protection Of this State. lt IS
therefore ordered that on and after this
date no persons will be permitted to en-
ter the State unless they possess a certi-
icate from the health officer that they
have not been exposed to yellow-feyer.
BY order Of the Executive Committee OF
the State Board of Health"
NEw ORLEANS, August 30-A speclal
70 the IfcGBURe from Jacksonville,
ria, says: "The situation to-day Is not
only no better. but rather worse. The
great Jump in the number of new cases
caused dismay among the people left n
town and the trims out we're crowded
from 10 ill 2 O'Clock. The health bull
letins are nov issued daily. II has been
decided here by the Auxiliary Commit
tee to try TO get the people to move
out to camp SO as 10 depOpulate the
place more and by this means endeavor
to check the feyer's course. New cases
to-day sprang up right and left. and the
prospects are good for an increase IN
the number Of cases tonight. Thirteen
cases were reported up 10 noon, with
three deaths. This rapid increase helps
on the exodus and will carry ont fifteen
hundred people this week. The number
discharged could not be learned last
night. bat Or. Mitchell set 1t approx
mately at eight. Physicians are
not prompt IN reporting cases
which pass out from under their
charge cured. The work of cleaning up
and disinfcchng goes forward most grati-
fyinglv. al that possibly can be done
mas been done already upon the Grand
Union Hotel and adjoining premises,
Int the injection still appears to crop
out in that neighborhood With alarming
frequency aud violence. One gratifying
feature OF the situation IA the mild form
Of many OF the new cases There ere
striking exceptions 10 this rule, however.
JACKSONVILLE, August 3O.-Twenty-
three new cases were reported to the
Board Of Health for the twenty-four
ending at & o'clock this afternoon
among them members of several leading
families: Father Kenney, Meis i.
Daniel, Mrs. Susan Iengle, and O. 5.
Kceuc. There were three deaths during
the same time: LafaJ cite Daney, the
confidential clerk OF the internal-revenue
Office: Mrs. ID. j. Crowley, wife OF
the manager OF the Western Union
telegraph Office. and David LuIgue,
IN Italian. A number OF patients
have been discharged. but the record
Of discharges is no longer kept by the
Board of Health. 1t can hardly be said
that the disease is more malignant than
week ago. Many cases are very critical,
but the percentage OF recOveres would
be large if the milder class Of cases not
clearly marked as yellow-fever we're re-
ported. Business IS gong on as usual
Except for the yellow-fever flags and
badges of D. sanitary police strangers
passing through the streets would hardly
notice anything more than an eXtraordI-
nary summer dulnesS Intense indlg-
nation was caused here by the action Of
the Surgeon-General IN stopping reiu-
gees from going 10 the healthy points to
which they have been invited, aud requi-
ring that all he retained at the quarantine
camp. President Daniels, OF the CIh-
gems Auxiliary Sanitary Association tele-
graphed q vigorous protest, asserting
that many Of our best citizens would pre-
fer 10 keep their wives and children III
the stricken city rather than subject
them 10 exposure without protection nj
the mixed quarantine camp, where there
is no hospital for the suitable care of any
taken with the fever. The case OF
Young Pollard, who was brought back
sick from Camp Perry and died, created
great apprehension, and caused the resO-
luton Yesterday asking the establish
ment of hospital near the camp.
Two hundred rough frame houses. it
is stated. will be built for the quarantine
camp. Efforts Will be made - depopu-
late the city Us soon as possible. The
Times Union will criticise most bitterly
the Surgeon-General's order cutting the
city off from many places rendering the
people welcome.
The following is the official bulletin
for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 Z.
NJ August 3Oth New cases, % (;
deaths, 3 total number OF cases to date.
1S8 discharged, 4; total number OF
deaths to date, 70.