The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12
'ilfI6B FEVER REPORTS
M Orleans VIII hsve ! rhoronah
Cleabing.
10 CASES ARE REPORTED THERE.
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Thorough cleaning she has had 10 many
moous. Dur1ug the day Mayor Flower and
PrssddenA Oliphant met the beads OF tho
vaSioua departments Of the city in confer.
encs. A majority o. tho council were pres
eax. His honor said the conference had
been called 70 take action on the suggec-
tlou q the board Of health that the streets
should Be swept and the CUTTERS flushed
q means toward tho more proper ssmi-
tation Of the city. Tho conference Extend
Ing over period OF an hour and half.
resulted N tho instant appropriation Of
$4,000 With which to begin the work.
with the understanding ohat any portion
q $4,000 necessary to perform the work
would be forthcoming when required.
President Britain Of the council and the
heads Of the various departments were
constituted committee to supervise the
work Of cleaning.
All the factories who have mains leading
70 the river and the water works company
will joan hands In the flushing and large
force OF men will he put At once to work
ind New Orleans will be treated to first
CLASH bath. pleasure she has not enjoyed
since the last good rain. nearly three weeks
ago. In the lower section Of the city,
which 10 not penetrated by water mains.
fre engines will be put TO work drawing
water from the river.
This afternoon Mayor Flower issued a
proclamation to the public. He'll says the
circumstances require people to exercise
unusual caution IN the sanitation OF their
homes. The sweeping OF trash or other
refuse into the cutters is absolutely pro-
hihted. Every householder Is constituted
the sanitary Inspector OF his neighborhood
and charged to do what he can TO tighten
tho labors Of tho officials. Garbage is to
DO promptly gathered UP. All are urged to
iiso bichloride OF lime In unlimited guam
titles In their cutters. II these suggestions
are carried out the mayor expresses the
belief that the city In a few days viii have
been put In an excellent sanitary condi-
ton.
Tho health situation In New Orleans
has steadily improved today Tonight pub.
nc confidence had again become normal an
q result OF the frank bulieting OF the board
OF experts who visited the St Claude street
patients and declared that OF the twelve
cases only one might DO considered sus-
picious. The board has not undertaken 10
Say that this case Is or is not yellow lack
but II does say that tho other cases have
r. sx.lx t..s-
20 much improved as to warrant no ap-
prehension that any OF them will result
fatally The exceptional case, Il IA hoped
wall DO out OF danger tomorrow or maxi
day. In the meantime the Same oare in
suarding the square is being exercised
az when The cases were viewed with
mssrted suspicion. Tho board OF bao,th
'e'erated this evening that there was no
othcr case Ia the city that required tho
seglouR attention ~ the sxperts ara nm,
= was proper to say that there had been
linus far but one case OF yellow fever !,
Ntw Orleans this summer The hest ev,.
uence that confidence has been rastor.d
iies IN the fact that the matinee. =, ~.
snsatene today were crowded ana half n
.eNen panus have at different times Az
Ecu on me streets In the past tw,Ive
sunaay Is great fisherman's day her,
e e me Louisville ana Nashyi,J,
escy saturday night and Sunday nirht
~ nundreds OF Ixuak waltonites to
st o eAee w hshing places on the lake
=. ~. ~ lew parties. however will
~ w. tooay The camp OF detention ror
louisiana has been estahi,shed n, ,hn ~ w
scisus, me heart Of the fishing section ann
.eis Afternoon Dir. Olphant announced
ulss any one who should 20 to tho Rigole,.
una its vicinity and who should m,ng
VIA the people who are detained M thc
uon. ~ "''es' ana isoia-
Ai,housh there has been vast improve.
ment locally, country towns continue ~
ISSUE quarantine edctu and some ~ W., wv
towns are being forced To declare cuaraas !
wy under threats Of other cities. Mon.
Tvs, TOT instance. one OF the largest town,
~ the state, does not care 10 son cow
inunicaticn With New Orleans. hut Monro,
" on the llne OF tho yioksh,,rg Shrovos
post And Pacific railway aud she MAS told
s sn's ai.s'nnon that Il she did not quaran
Vicksburg would Quarantine her.
Nothlng has TRANSFERRED thla afternoon
o. An alarming character on the roa.,
tew new CASES OF fever have been dIsroy'
area. nut Tho scourge Ia not sprYn1inc
WIN tbe rapidity usual In yellow fevsI
epluemtcs Thore has been lack OF har.
meng at biloxi and the physicians cor {.
suited eoday on the resignation Of Dr.
< ~ mes'cn e. president Of the board Of health
ms Work OF piastering niloxi with dIsin.
fecfants however,. continues unaha,oa
morrow tho Mississippi State authorltle.
n ~! take charge OF the situation AZ al.
u p0xSs Hloxis although she has fever hcr