The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-24

| the infected houses up town. armed
| with a shotgun, and had torn down the
yellow fever flag and had taken pos
session of the premises. A squad of
police was sent to the scene.
At it's session this afternoon the
board Of health decided to send an ap-
| peal to Governor Foster, asking him to
| supply the board $25, 900 from the sur
plus fund of the state to assist in pros
| ecuting the fight against the fever. The
governor was also asked to issue orders
for tents and other camp supplies TO be
used at the camp Of detention.
CAMPS OF DETENTION.
| health and city authorities. the Oak
land driving park was selected as the
site Of the camp OF detention. It is sit
uated in the rear Of the city and was
rendered to the officials by the Crescent
City Jockey Club. A large force Of
men was Immediately put to work, and
it is expected that by tomorrow the
camp will be ready to receive 200 or 900
| people from the Italian quarter. Any
people living in infected houses who de-
sire may go to the camp and be cared
| for. Governor Foster this afternoon
instructed General Glynn IT, provide 100
tents, blankets, cots and other neces-
sary articles for the use of the refugees,
and General Glynn has arranged to
have these articles sem to the camp
tomorrow.
Today the board Of health decided
to send a list Of infected houses daily
to manufactures in order to enable
| the proprietors to discriminate in the
employment Of aid n lay off any Of
| their employees who may live in neigh
borhoods where infection exists. The
board also decided to send Immediately
| washwomen and other servants to all
of the families who have sickness in
their homes and who are unable to
| pay for servants themselves. The New
Orleans and Western road, which has a
large settlement at Port Chalmette, or
dered a physician there to inspect the
plant and cottages Of employees and to
at once put sanitary measures into eff
feet.
Fifty-eight people slept at Fontain-
bleau, the federal detention camp, last
night. Today additional refugees ar
rived there from Mobile. Tomorrow the
camp will be prepared to receive $50
additional guests, and by Thursday the
surgeons in charge say they will have
room and accommodations for 500 peo-
| pie, besides those already quartered
| there. The Louisville and Nashville
"iiIooo Ii 80 Liz w
ton for all who wish to go to the camp.
Today J. H.. Whyte, a newspaper cor
respondent, was taken ill at FOntain-
bleau, and was removed to an isolated
point, where the hospital is located, one
mile from Fontainbleau. There were
no new cases at Ocean Springs up to
evening, and several Of the old patients
| were discharged.
Miss May Chinn die at Biloxi this
afternoon.
All mails are now being sent from the
infected districts with as much regu-
larity as possible with the reduced rail-
road facilities.
DIR. Holt reported to the board of
health today that all his cases were
traceable to Ocean Springs. One of
them contracted the fever through a
letter written by a woman in a room
where her child was sick at hat place.
The letter, apparently, had not been
disinfeoted. Only one Of DR.. Hollis
patients is dangerously lll-Clintcn S.
Dixon. This evening the board of
health ordered all the houses occupied
by DR.. Hollis patients to be fumigated.
The public circulating library Of New
Orleans was closed today at the sug-
gestion of the board of health. Two
private schools that have refused to
close in accordance with the sugges-
ton of the board Of health will be pro-
ceeded against legally.
! THE FEVER CASES IN MOBILE.
Mobile, Ala, September 19.-The Of
fetal bulletin for the last twenty-fOur
hours ending at noOn today shows
eleven new cases and one death, that of
Frank Donaldson, mentioned as one of
the new cases in these dispatches last
night. He was 16 years old and a paper
carrier.
Total cases to date twenty-nine; total
deaths three.
The president of the board of health
tonight upOn the days re-
port as follows: The cases reported to-
day were taken, one on the 18th, N
on the 14th, three on the 18th, four on
the 18th and one on the 18th, so there
is shown that there a been but one
new case in the past twenty-fOur hours.
The total of cases shows a persistency
Of the disease but not a rapid increase
i and all the cases are in one infected
district, save in on locality on the Old
Shell road, and in the marine hospital
| All the cases with one or two exceptions
are doing we'll.
Mobile, Ala, September.-Sunday az
ternOon the hot spell was broken by
a delightful rain, which served also to
wash out the cutters and improve the
city's sanitary condition. The temper
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