The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-05
NEW ORLEANS HOPES
The First Note of Cheer For
Several Days.
NUMBER OF CASES FALL
NO DEATHS DURING THE LAST
4s HOURS.
DEATH RATE DOWN TO io1.2 PER CENT
No indication Of an Epidemic People With
Families Absent Are Arranging to Have
Them Return No Case in Ocean
Spring For Days.

New Orleans, La, Oct. 4.-For twen-
ty-four hours, closing at nightfall, there
had not been a single death recorded in
the office Of the Board of Health. Yes
terday there had been thirty-one new
cases reported and at o'clock tonight
twenty-five were reported, since 8 O'Clock
last night. Yesterday there were nearly
two hundred premises under surveillance
in which yellow fever had been declared
to exist, and in some of the houses there
were four or five cases, yet not sin
gle one had proved fatal in twenty-four
hours. The result was that tonight the
death rate had fallen to a trifling ex-
cess over ten and half per cent, and
the prospects for an early stamping our
of the disease had been considerably
frightened. There is no indication that
the sickness will assume an epidemic
form. All fear of that has disappeared
and people who have their families at
other points are beginning to make ar
rangements to bring them back.
Many new patients were discharged to-
day as recovered. Among them was Ed.
Roddy, of the Illinois Central road, who
had been sick but a week.
AT a special meeting of the Board of
Health this afternoon it was decided
that the ship bringing Siclian immi-
grants shall be detained at quarantine
at the mouth of the river until further
orders and Il notice to this effect was
sent to Collector Wilkinson.
Six days nave passed since Ocean
Springs has had a ease Of yellow fever
Ocean Springs was the first to contract
the disease and win probably be the
first to get rid of it.
WANT $4,000 MORE.
New Orleans, Oct. 4.-The city council
held Il conference tonight with the local
members of the legislature aud it was re-
solved to ask the Governor to place $50,
900 at the disposal Of the State Board
of Health to aid in the fever fight. The
members of the legislature present
pledged themselves TO sign a memorial
agreeing to vote for appropriation when
the legislature meets in May and to OBJ
tain enough signatures from the country
10 guarantee passage and Justify the
Governors advance action.
The Italian Immigrants ship will not
come near this city. The immigrants
win he placed on a steamboat at the
mouth of the river and taken to the
plantations up the river.
NO DEATHS AT BILOXI
Biloxi, Miss. Oct. 4.-The day closes
without any deaths. The new cases in
clude George Wilkes and his son, of the
HeaId Miss Carrie Burton and DR.. J..
b. Tackett.
1lbe report OF the Board OF Health is
as follows: yellow fever under treat
ment, 130; suspicious cases, 6; other
cases, z. New cases, IL: deaths, none;
total yellow fever to date, 241; total
deaths to date, 8.
JACKSON, 18 NOW CASES.
Jackson, Miss, Oct. 4.-The following
report was received from DIR, Dunn, ut
Edwards, Miss, at six this afternoon:
The situation here is fairly good, con-
sidering the circumstances. There have
been reported IS new cases, seven whites
and eleven colored, ten cases seriously
i'll; two with black vomit; two deaths.
Rev. Father Prendergast is doing
nicely. The deaths are Mrs. w. G.. Red
field, Sr., and an infant SON of r. y.
Montgomery" gsifr..sa8fnta .ti -
another effort was made to-day to get
Dir. Dunn to Clinton, but the people and
authorities there refused to receive him
because he comes from an infected dis
trict. @Ai