The record-union., 1897-09-27
OUIETEST DAY
or The WEEK.
Fever Situation Shows Much Inn
pr0VGment.
Rather a Large Number Of New Cases,
However.
There Were No Deaths and Have
Been None Since Friday-No o
Sickness Has as Yet Appeared
at Oakland Detention Camp
All Baggage Is Disinfected-No
New Gases at Ocean Springs.

NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 26.-To-day
was the quietest of the week in New Or
leans and the fever situation in spite
of the appearance of rather a large
number of new cases, may be said to
have shown much Improvement. Fif-
/ teen cases We're recorded on the books
of the Board of Health, but there were
no deaths and there have been no deaths
since Friday. The authorities received
reports during the evening from nearly
every patient now under treatment, and
they were all to the effect that the cases
are doing we'll and that no patient is in
any immediate danger. Some forty
/ cases were reported tonight as being
rapidly on the mend and a number of
them will be discharged during the
week.
One of the most dangerous cases that
has appeared was discovered to-day. 1t
was that on Madison street, in the
Eeighborhood of the French Market
where the conditions were considered to
be such as to warrant the fear that the
disease would spread. Unusual precau-
tiOns, however, We're taken and the au-
thOritieS Quarantined the case and i'm
proved the sanitary conditions of the
neighbOrhood, 50 that the fever in that
vicinity seems to have been stamped out
completely. At Oakland Park detention
camp, all the refugees who have been
given quarters were declared to be we'll
no sickness having yet appeared in the
camp.
To-day's record: E. Toma, G. c. Nc
Hardy, A Goldman, Lou Lawler, James
Matson, = Bronson, Andrew and Miss
PizZo and a servant, Arthur Blake,
Emma Schlosscher. Mrs. w. H. Will
Jams.
The new cases are as usual scattered.
The most important are Mr.. McHardy,
wealthy insurance man, and Mrs.
Williams, wife of General w. H. Will
Jams, well-known newspaper man.
| There are now four cases in the Will
Jams residence, but they are all re-
ported to beA Adoing well. f. Toma is
the brother of the man who died of
yellow fever last week and lives in the
same premises. A number of children
are among the new cases. Professor
Metz has large number Of Formal De
Hyde generators now at work. To-day
he burned in the street the bedclothing
and other articles in the house in which
the man Series died on Constance
street, the clothing first having been
subjected to Formal De HIDE disinfec-
ton. Some loss is being suffered by the
poorer classes whose effects have been
burned. Professor Metz said tonight
that he was hopeful of getting the city
to make an appropriation to cover such
cases Of distress. Professor Metz has
placed generators at the railroad depots
and baggage is being promptly and
thoroughly disinfected before it is put
on trains. The local charity organiza-
tions are taking steps to relieve all cases
of destitution that are presented. The
Board of Health supplies medicines and
the charity hospital physicians and their
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 several days and her case
has already been reported.
There have been no new cases at
Ocean Springs. Rports from the deten-
tion 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
sciatic rheumatism. The patients in
the hospital, mile away from the
camp, are recovering.