The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-09-22
SMALL SCARE IN ST. Louis.
A Case Of Intermittent Fever Causes
Fear Of Yellow Jack.
NO CBUSE FOR ALARM lNTHAT VICINITY
Very Mid and The Apprehension Les-
sening Rapidly-Bulletins
Sent Out Daily,

WASHINGTON. Sept H.--slrgeon-Gen-
eral Wyman to-day sent the following
telegraphic summary Of the yellow fever
situation TO the state health authorities
throughout the South and Southwest:
Total yellow fever cases Officially re-
ported as follows: Mobile. to September
18th. is: September 2oth, i; Cairo. septem-
Der 18th, 2; September 2oth. 2: New Or
leans 20 September 18Th. 80; September
20th. IS mine OF these IS previously exist
ing. but reported on the 2ot6); Barkley.
Miss. TO September 18th. 10; Biloxi, to
September 18th. %; Edwards. to septem-
Der 18th. rs: September 21tn. Q: Ocean
Springs. September 18th. II: Pascaeoula.
90 September 10TH I: Scranton. 10 Sep
tembor 18th. .. September 2)th. 15: Per-
knston. 10th. I.
The foregoing was sent TO secretaries Of
the Boards OF Healths a Raleigh, ~ c.:
Florence s. c.. Bowling Green. KY:
Montgomery. Ala: Jackson. Miss: jack
! sonvile Fla; Little Rock. Ark; ST.
Louis. Mo: Nashville Tenn: Indiana
polls. Ind; Springfield, H.; Columbus. o.;
New Orleans. La: Austin. Tex, and At-
lanta, Ca
4 similar bulletin viii be issued daily
and tolegraphod To the state authorities
| at tho above-namod points
ARRANGEMENTS were made to-day 10 ev-
pedite the mail through Mississippi and
| Alabama.
SCARE ~ ST LOUIS.
ST LOUIS. MO. Sent. 2f-This city had
a yellow fever scare TODAY, hut there
Il Cos T~ff frs
| FOR % according 20 Health Commissioner
| stackleon who made IN examination ~
! tho ~u7r .ctcd c7eo md declared tr0t u
/ showed not q SINGLE symptom of tho dread
| disease now raging in tho South.
The suspect is william Tript. thirty
| years old. who reached tho Marine Hos.
nital Monday morning. Ilo bad HIGH
| fovcr and said he came from drodgohoat
| Alpha cnraco7 in work no7r East Cairo
mr. O. T. Dool-er physician I'm charge NJ
| fro Marine H07r'tal became interested i1
| The case when ho was told hv Tr'0t that
| he had been working on fho Alpha. FOR
| ,~al cases of vollov fovor ~ the Marine
! Toepifal ~ Cairo T'l Thinking 70 case
| eor Investigation. he to'cnhoncd Health
| Commissioner sfacfir0n hut ~ WIS m
| no toqnifai ITO ovru-frod Tr'nf 0~1
| 'hen returned 10 h'e Office in the CITY
! Tali whore ho was seen lv reporter or
| tfe heeociatc7 P~o~e
no DANGER.
Il regard TO the case Dr. stachoon
| said:
| OF Tript with Drs. Jordan arl DccFrr.
! The analysis oe presented 10 mo makes
] tho case 10 be one OF ordinary Intermittent
| fever Of a very mild type. Ihero are no
| Alarming symptoms. such as the th.nff
| that KIN in How fever. Doc 'dcs the nan
| had an appetite for brcakflst'
! Trpt saws nis home Ie in Illinois and
| that for several months he had been work.
| ING ON tho drodgo boat. Tie had been Sick
| for several davs TIE boarded O. box c'r
on the Iron Mountain road in the Ca'r'
! Yards early Monday and came hore Whom
| he left tho box car be went dIrccioly to
/ the Marine Hospital.
| or shall have the patient scnt % q i1r-
antine whore Dr Woodruff ie in-'har4e
| and take on necessary precautions.
IMMIGRATION
Two hundred clerks with their families
| employed in the general Offices or inc
| Mobile and Ohio Railway Company at
! Mobile. Ala. arrived hero t0-nioht tenn
! uorary headquarters for tho roa1 having
! boon established iu this cliy nlli 'l
lGW fever has died out in inc
sackieon was asked what would
| d.. the effect Of SO many peopie from me
| midst Of the fever-stricten dl-, ,ilc, 'rui-
| iro into this city Ho said that he had no
| rear fh4t fhov would spread Che plaque.
At tho worst there could only be sporadic
| ca4rs and these would Ne irN.I
| health authorities and promptly i-3l...,i,l go ..'ii
| Tho doctor declared that ~ was TOO 'oiu
! f0r "a spread Of the disease. e.,.- ,,..-,
! mr. paul pa0uin. secretary or the lo.I
| ~ Toeltb received information to-dHy
that two cases supposed 10 pc N.liDW
| f.,--r bod dcvclonod on "a drcdee hoao Ht
pint pleasant. Mo. 10O miles below Cat
-, II is not certain hat the pauenIs
| have yellow fever but tho marine nos
nital surgeons are proceeding on the as
| sumption that they nave.
GOVERNMENT AID.
DR. Paqu n sent the following teiesIain ram
| TO Dr Walter Wymah hup.l - ,-f-.o
econ general Of the United states Marine
"yIrbat facilities has the marine service
| 90 Eeoi with yellow fever iu 81. LOUIS
| DO Won recommend ary acuon by w
| state Board of Health Of MISSOURI 20
| co-operate with your enortst 10 yoN
| mink tho present regulations will pre-
vent further spread Of yellow iever 90,
| Surgeon General Wyman replied as tol-
| lows: C.. r..,t.
| "Recommond same course In St LOUIS
| as was taken in 1873. Suggest that you
! look after Point Pleasant with reference
to dredee boats there. Surgeon Guileras
| has been instructed 10 proceed 20 Point
| Pleasant 70 investigate. Assist him"
| Dr. Stackleoff who received a long-dls-
| fINHA fHIfNNNINME
about f. said there was no foundation
whatever for such rumor.
MILD CASES.
NEW ORLEANS, LA, Sept 2l.-There
| were nine cases OF yellow FEVER reported
| TO the Board Of Health this afternoon az
| 6 o'clock, when the days work Of the
| physicians ended. There were, however
| no deaths recorded, and the doctors all
| agreed this evening that the situation was
| steadily improving The fever at present
| instead Of developing into a malignant
| type IS as mild, III not milder, than when
| II first appeared here. as witness twenty
| seven cases i'm two days without single
| death. Tonight the inspectors Of the
| Board OF Health reported that most Of the
| cases that had come under their obserya-
tion were progressing fayorably
| There are only two cases which give the
| attending physicians any reason for
| alarm. These are the new cases to-day
| Joseph Roth, 1924 CleOuet street; Fred.
| Gund 533J Marais. Mrs. McAudrews. ~
7 Howard: ch a OF Judge Lea, 1910 Dublin
| street: Bartlett. 1j3s BaTones, Miss Mel
| lie Scannen, III Berlin street. Thomas
| Wood, ll5 Octavla street; IL. 4. Reynolds
| 1903 Coliseum street. $. H.. JoOr. 1GOa
Laura street. Some new places of infec-
tion are included in these cases. but 90
IS stated tonight that each one OF the
| patients 's doing well. and that there
Is no immediate dagger OF a fatal ter
minatiOn In any OF these cases
LITTLE DREAD.
Up to the present time there has been
| little dread OF the yellow fever. Sporadic
casos are appearing In town, but the Board
of Health thus far has been enabled sue
cessfully 10 quarantine each case that has
appeared. COntdeLce locally Is steadily