The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-09
Three New Cases Reported at
Biloxi, Mississippi.
New Orleans Is Now Free From the
Dreaded Plague.
SUPERINTENDENT Wyman Of the
Marine Hospital Confident
That the Disease VIII Not
Spread.


Spread.
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. S-Mayor
Harry Howard of Biloxi has issued
proclamation announcing three cases
Of yellow fever and three suspects. he
says they are still isolated and no
facts viii be withheld
Residents of North Backbay have
appealed to the Biloxi Council asking
that quarantine be raised 50 that they
may secure supplies. They say they
are sueffring.
Biloxi people are impatient to have
Or. Guiteras and other experts VISIT
them, so as to determine If the fever
is Biloxi is really yellow fever
10 NEW CASES At NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. S.-The Lou
fsiana Board Of Health is to-day in
fun control of the situation. Perfect
arrangements have been made for the
prompt report of yellow fever or sus-
picious cases. Up to 10 O'Clock to-day
there has not been d single report 70
the board. and the authorities frank
" declare that no sickness Of VlrulehI
type viii be imported. In spite OF New
Orleans clean bill of health, however,
towns in Louisiana and MISSISSIPPI
continue to declare quarantine. Ihere
is infinitely more scare away from mere
than there is in this city, where conf
dence has entirely returned. 1t IS pc
lieved here that immunity from Ael-
low Jack for eight or ten days VIII
bring Mobile and the Mississippi ana
Louisiana towns to their senses and
move them to tear down their barriers.
The raising of the quarantine against
Pav st. Louis and the Pass had the eff
feet of bringing hundreds into the CITY
not because they feared the fever, but
because they did not care to be held
in those places indefinitely if cases OF
fever should appear.
owing to the fact that the operators
at coast cities have been greatly over
worked and almost smothered with
private messages. general news from
these points trickles in slow. No ad-
vices have been received at this writ
ing of the appearance Of further cases
at Biloxi in the immediate vicinity of
Point Cadet In the section Iilelitic ned,
the conditions are such as to invite
an increase in the number of cases.
Meantime stringent measures are be-
ing taken to confine the disease there.
Biloxi and Ocean Springs are in need
of supplies and are appealing to the
railroad company to promptly arrange
for the sending to them of needed pro-
visions. The mail service was got into
pretty fair shape yesterday. There are
still some seventy-fve people at Ocean
Springs from other points. among them
several prominent citizens Of New Or
leans. who are caught by the quaran-
tine.
Or. Guiteras. the United States Gov
eminent expert. arrived at Ocean
Springs this morning. DIR. Sheedy, who
attended the Tulman case in Ocean
Springs. is reported sick with fever at
Perkinston.
NO MORE CASES AT NEW OR
LEANS
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. S.-When the
Board of Health met tonight Or. Oil
plant had no additional cases TO re-
port as having occurred in New Or
leans, and was able to say that the To-
cal situation has vastly improved. and
that there We're no present prospects Of
evil result follow ing the death of Gelpi.
The public pulse here is vastly strong
er, and New Orleans is almost ready
to declare that il mas had a scare for
nothing. Or 0nphaut and his staff
have slept but li,tle in the past sew
enty-two hours. and have fairly honey
combed the city for suspicious cases Of
fever without result.
A thorough canvass of the wards at
Ocean Springs, completed late this ev-
cIns
of the prevailing fever since July Sth
There are now thirty-seven still sick
The total deaths have been nine and
in several instances physicians certif-
Gates show the fever was complicated
with other diseases. There are be-
lieved to have been only two deaths
due to yellow jack.
At the suggestion of DIR. Cant. every
house where there has been sickness.
or is now, is being fumigated. DR.
Cant says whether the prevailing dis
ease is yellow fever or low malaria, it
is certainly contagious.
Final arrangements 10 handle the
Biloxi and Ocean Springs mail We're
completed to-day. The railroad man
ayers sent over a mail carrier to-day.
and the pounches viii be taken by
trains both ways after the bags have
been fumigated After DR. Guiteras
has completed his investigation a quar-
antine detention station viii be estab-
lished Those who are III viii be de-
tanned at the station until they are
considered worthy to be given clean
bins Of health, and wiz be permitted to
go 10 their homes.
There are sixty-f1ve residents Of New
Orleans who are tied up in Ocean
Springs. anxious to set away, and some
fifteen from other points. Biloxi peo-
PIE are not absolutely convinced that
the fever there is yellow Jack. DR.
Guiteras win be asked TO visit Biloxi
and determine whether DR.. Harrolson
has correctly diagnosed the disease.
Some 100 people were brought TO New
Orleans by the morning trains from the
coast. There were very few passen-
gers on the evening trains. and both
Pass Christian and Bay st. Louis have
been depopulated, so far as summer
visitors are concerned.
All coast trains on the Louisville and
Nashville were discontinued to-day.
and through trains win do whatever
local business is necessary. while a
special is always at the disposal Of
officials who are enlisted in the move