Omaha daily bee., 1897-09-27
PATIENTS ARE RECOVERING
Fever Situation Improves in spits of Large
Number of New Cases.
NO DEATHS RECORDED FOR TWO DAYS
Many Formnldehyde Dcsencrntors
Arc Now Mt work In Ncw Orleans
and the Authorities believe
They Are Controlling Disease.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 26.-The fever sit
uation. in spite of the appearance of a rather
large number of new cases, may be said to
have shown much improvement. Fifteen
cases were recorded today on the books of
the Board of Health, but there we're no
deaths and there have been no deaths since
Friday. The authorities received reports
during the evening from nearly every pa
tient that is now under treatment and these
were all to the effect that the cases are
doing well and that no patient is in any
immediate danger of dissolution. Some forty
cases were reported tonight as being rapidly
on the mend and number of them will be
discharged during the week. One of the
most dangerous cases that have appeared
was discharged today. 1t was that on Madi-
son street, in the neighborhood of the French
market, where the conditions were consld-
cred such as to warrant fear that the dis
ease would spread. Unusual precautions,
however were taken by the authorities to
quarantine the case and improve the sani-
tary conditions of the neighborhood and the
fever in that vicinity seems to have been
stamped out completely. At the Oakland
park detention camp all the refugees who
have been given quarters were declared to
be well, no sickness having yet appeared in
the camp.
Today's record: E. Toma, 126 St. Andrews
street; G. G. McHardy, Pine and Maple; A.
Goldman, 2227 BarOnne; Lou Lawler, gOS
Second; Michael Dwyer, 621 First; James
Gray, 52S Esplanade; Percy and Susie Matt
sob, 24ll Constance; - Bronson, 1926 Irene;
Andrew and Miss Piz2o and a servant at
1901 Poydras; Arthur j. Blake, 20l3 Camp;
Emma Closshier, Bayonne and roydras; Mrs.
w. H. Williams, 1858 Camp street. The new
cases are as usual scattered The most
prominent among them are McHardy
wealthy insurance man, and Mrs. Williams,
wife of General w. II. Williams, well
known newspaper man. There are now four
cases in the Williams residence, but they
are all reported to be doing we'll. E. Toma
is the brother Of the man who died of yell
low fever last week, and lives in the same
residence. number of children are among
.Ie new cases
Prof Metz has a large number of formal
dehyde generators now at work. Today he
burned in the street the bed clothing and
other articles in the house where the man
Series died on Constance street. the clothing
first having been subjected to formaldehyde
disinfection. Some loss is being suffered
by the poorer classes whose effects have
been burned Prof Metz said tonight that
he was hopeful of getting the city to make
an appropriation to cover just such cases
Of distress. Prof. Metz has placed these
generators at the railroad depo:s AMI bag
gage is being promptly and thoroughly dis
infected before 1t is put on trains. The
local charity organizations are taking steps
to relieve all cases of destltution that are
presented. The Board Of Health supplies
medicines and the Charity hospital physi-
clans and the charity organizations will try
to provide food for the poorer classes.
Mrs. A. McCubbage died this morning in
Ocean Springs of yellow fever. She had
been sick for several days and her case has
already been reported. There have been
no new cases at Ocean Springs Rports from
the detention camp say that about ten
refugees from New Orleans have arrived
there and eighteen from Biloxi. There is
no sickness in the camp save one case OF
scatic rheumatism. The patients in the
hospital. a mile away from the camp, are
recovering.
The Board of Health Of the state Of Louis
iana officially announces the status of AFFAIRS
in New Orleans as regards yellow fever to be
as follows:
During the twenty hours ended
of yellow fever, seventeen; deaths none;
total cases to date, 1888: total deaths from
yellow fever to date. II.
Hereafter 1t is proposed to annunce the
number of premises released from quaran-
tine, also the number of patients discharged
as well. $. r OLlPHAST, NJ D;,,
WALTER G. FLOWER,
Mayor of New Orleans.
Tho Board OF Health received advice of a
case OF yellow fever at T3llullah, La. The
board will hold a special meeting to con-
slider the question of quarantining Galveston.
Some complaint has reached the authori-
ties here of the delay in the mails resulting
from the quarantine measures in force in the
infected district Congressman Davey of the
New Orleans district sent a dispatch to his
colleague, Meyer, who is now in the city,
asking him to confer with the officials. Mr..