Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-22
THE WHOLE SOUTH ALARMED.
Stringent Quarantine Establisho4
Against Fever infected Poinss.

The development OF cases Of yellow fever az
many points in the South mas caused general
alarm throughout the South Rigid quarantine
regulations are being enforced against the In
fected places, In several Instances . shotgun
policy being adopted. Yesterdays record at jack
sonviile was lis new cases and IA deaths, among
the latter DIR. Francis ]. Gould. A large majority
Of the new cases are among colored people, but
there are few deaths among them. For TOUR sue
cesstve days the thermometer has gone above
ninety and has not at night fallen TO seventy.
The remarkable heat partly explains the increase
OF fever II is further explained by the tact that
the coored people, who have heretofore been treat
remedies without calling on a physician, are now,
since the establishment OF q free medical bureau
and free. nurses reporting their sick and asking
medical attendance. Probably not less than q
thousand cOlored people OF Jacksonville have had
the fever In mid form and have recovered, but
these cases have never been reported.
Some very pathetic Incidents nave occurred On
Thursday a little boy named Storck was discharg, d
from Sand Hill cured. He returned home TO hnd
MS tnef, !notner, ana all other members OF the
family dead and buried, himself lett utterly alone
In the world.
The strain on the physicians and clergymen in
Jacksonville Is terrible, and many OF tnem are al
most exhausted by their continuous iabors. Dr.
Neal Mitchell has telegraphed 10 Mayor Roch, OF
Chicago, that no NOR physicians are needed, but
accnmafed nurses who nave had the fever are.
The situation at Decatur, Ala, is represented as
very gloomy by DR.. Jerome Cochran, state health
oncer, who says In letter: "Up to last night
had seen four undOubted cases OF yellow lever,
and as many that believed TO be yellow fever
This morning three new cases are reported posi-
lively, and three or four NOR as suspicious. DR..
Bowman, who treated spencer, will die before
night The excitement for the last three days has
been intense. People have been leaving In crowds
think half Of The p Dpulauon has got away, In
spite of the fact that no trains have been allowed
to stop In the town and in spite OF the omnpOtent
quarantine. My situation here mas been extremely
painful Myself and DR.. Cross stood alone against
all the other local doctors and against q hercely-
excited population Ihave been made out an lg
noramus and fraud. / have been denounced, Tor
saying that yellow fever was here, and have been
denounced on the other hand, for not saying that
posture. The doctors now admit that We have yei-
low fever here. and steps toward systematic man
agement will lie taken"
Acase Of yellow fever is reported at Greenville,
Four new cases were reported at Jackson, Miss,
yesterday. All trains are forbidden 10 stop there
Inc Howard Association, that did such noble work
IN 1919 mas reorganizeo, and has already assigned
nurses All the stores except the drug-stores are
closed. The provisions have nearly all been car
rled away by the merchants, and people who can
OF the white population and few Of the cOiored
kilograms from Grenada, Corinth, and nearly all
Mississippi towns report shotgun" quarantine
having been established against Decatur, Ala. |;
jackson, Miss, and other infected points. regu-
lar panic seems to have seized the people, espe-
cially In the smaller interior towns. where nom
intercourse Is the watchwOrd. and armed men
guard the roads leading into those places.
Chattanooga has Instituted most stringent
quarantine against all Injected points. No one is
roads without giving satisfactory account OF
himself. Quarantine officers board every train
The city council has adopted ordinances tnncting
nne OF $500 upon any person entering the city
from any Injected district. large reward Is
offered Tor the apprehension and conviction OF such
offender and for the conviction OF any one harbor-