The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-13
CONTINUED
SPREAD Of
THE FEVER
Seven Cases Reported
Yesterday at New
Orleans
NO GENERAL ALARM
RESULTS.
Health Officials Confident of
Being Equal to the
Emerge nCy.
ALL IN THE LOWER PART
OF THE CITY.
Absence of Mortality Seems to IN
dictate That the Disease Is of
a Mild Type.
Health Officials Confident Of
Being Equal to the
Emerge
ALL IN THE LOWER PART
OF THE CITY.
Absence of Mortality Seems to In
dictate That the Disease Is of
Mild Type.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 12.-Shortly
before noon to-day the Board of Health
officially declared six of the suspicious
cases of fever on ST. Claude street to be
yellow fever. A couple OF hours subse-
uuentiy the board announced another
pronounced case of yellow fever at Miro
and Esplanade streets, also in the lower
part of the city, but mile or more away
from the infected square. The announce
ment of the first six cases of yellow fever
was not unexpected, although it was
hoped from the delay on ths part of the
experts that these cases were simply
bilious malaria.
No general alarm has resulted here, al
though the news rapidly spread through
through the CITY, The authorities do not
believe that the situation is materially
worsa than it was four or five days ago,
and they are still confident of their abil-
ity, with mod m sanitary appliances
successfully to quarantine the infected
districts.
The official bulletin of the Board of Elk.
perts declaring the ST. Claude street case s
to be yellow fever was received by Presi-
dent Oliphant soon after II o'clock. DR..
Oliphant Immediately sent for members
of the press and gave out the report.
which WIS signed by Drs. LeMonnier,
Touat.e, Bickham, Petit and Parham of
the Board of Experts and DR.. Dsvron, tn e
attending physician. The report was as
follows:
We, the undersigned physicians, who from
time to time have examined the twelve cases
of fever On St. Claude street, between CLIQUE
and Louesa, find six 10 be yellow fever, four of
whom are convalescent. There are no other
cases.
OF the twelve original cases, all OF
which had their origin from a case that
came from Ocean Springs. the six, other
than those reported to-day as yellow
fever, were announced this afternoon to
be practically we'll, up and walking abou t
their homes. OF the six pronounced yell
low fever, four are convalescent and two
were declared to be critically ill, one OF
these having suffered relapse sin ce
yesterday.
Among the suspicious cases reported
yesterday was that of boy named Roy,
living at Miro and E. planade streets.
I hree doctors were sent to make a careful
observation of the case. This afternoon
they pronounced it to be unquestionably
yellow fever and as having apparently had
it's origin in Scranton, Miss, or in the
vicinity of that town.
As soon as the report was received the
Ill
house, quarantined the inmates, placed
guards so that no one might come in close
proximity 10 the premises and set to
work thoroughly to sinfect the neigh Dor
hood. brother of the patient, who had
left the premises some time before
the official announcement, was given a
permi to return, bus orders were issued
under no circumstances to let him or any
mem Der of the household again leave the
premises.
To a correspondent OF the Associated
Press President Oliphant said this alter
noon:
"Of course | have made this announce
ment OF the existence of the seven cases
of yellow fever in New Orleans with sim
cere regret, out there was no alternative
with the public here and elsewhere. | do
not think, however, there is occasion here
for serious alarm unless conditions shall
grow materially worse. We shall have to
await Developments.
IAN earlier announcement of the dag
| nosis of the St. -Claude-street cases was
not possible. The board OF exp erts, which
is composed of able, efficient and expe-
rienced physicians, had made repeated
visits 10 these patients, but they insisted
that they should be allowed their own
time within which to make a complete
diagnosis. They desired to be perfectly
sure before pronouncing the sickness TO
be yellow fever. They reached couclu-
sion as soon as was practicable, and four
days ago they warned the country tina t
all of the twelve cases were suspicious.
Personally, am una bic to say wheth e r
or not the cases are of a mild or severe
type. The absence OF mortality would
seem to indicate that they are in the for
mer class. That there has been no spread
would seem to strengthen that view.
have no reason to doubt, however, that
the com plete saints alton of the neigh bor-
hood instituted by the board and the
rigid quarantine enforced has gone a long
way toward restricting the disease to the
Claude-street square. in which the cases
originated, and take hope from this
fact that we shall be able to contine the
fever within the present limits. The sit.
ualIon is certainly no worse than it was
four or five days age, for the disease being
yellow fever then must be so now.
"WitSrespect to the Miro and Espla-
made street cases we are applying the
same methods of sanitation and quaran-
tine as in the st. Claude street cases and
in the case OF young Gelpi, wherein these
methods were extended with excsllent re-
| suits, no new cases having appeared in
either neigh oornooG.
1--WE have now had a total of eight