The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-09-08
A YELLOW FEVER SCARE
The Dreaded Soourge Appears at
Ocean Springs, Miss.
One Death from the Disease Occurs at
New Orleans-Towns In Texas, Louis
lana and Mississippi Quaran-
tine Against the Spread
of the Epidemic.

jackson, Miss, Sept. 7.-Gov. Nc
Laurin has received the following tel
egram from the two members OF the
state board of health who went to
Ocean Springs, Miss, to investigate the
yellow fever scare:
AFTER most thorough investigation
in every conceivable light, 1t is the
unanimous opinion of representatives
OF the Louisiana, Alabama and Missis-
sippi state boards of health and the
marine hospital service that the fever
now prevailing in Ocean Springs is yell
low fever"
New Orleans, Sept. 7.-Raoul Gelpi,
who had been spending the summer at
Ocean Springs, was brought to this
city Thursday and died Monday in this
city. DIR. Walmsley, president of the
board of health, after an autopsy an
nounced that Gelpi had died of yellow
fever. The board of health has taken
charge of the house, which will be
thoroughly fumigated and disinfected,
and will take all steps to prevent a
spread of the disease.
The death of young Gelpi caused no
little excitement in the city. Physi-
clans, however, expressed no apprehen-
sion and said it was quite possible to
prevent spread of the fever. The
board has ordered rigid quarantine
against all points on the coast and has
taken every precaution to guard all
avenues of communication against the
entry into the city of any person from
Ocean Springs, Biloxi or other points
on the sound, which it was thought
the fever might reach. During the
day the bulletin boards were thronged,
the board of health office besieged and
the wires freighted with messages to
and from the various coast resorts.
Quarantine will also be enforced
against the other watering places Oh
the Gulf coast until more light is OBJ
tanned on the situation. Guards are to
be put on the trains and at the sta
tions; all baggage is to be fumigated
and every precaution is to be taken to
keep the disease out of the city.
Austin, Tex, Sept. State Health
officer Swearingen has issued ironclad
quarantine against Ocean Springs,
Miss, and all other points now affected
or likely to be affected by yellow fe-
yer. 1t will go into immediate effect
and last indefinitely. Reports from
the gulf coast are to effect that the
inhabitants are badly frightened at
the prospects of yellow fever entering
the state and some of them are talking
of reorganizing their shotgun quaran-
tine force which patrolled the gulf
shore l2 years ago
Washington, Sept. THE marine
hospital service is investigating the
fever at Ocean Springs, Miss, and the
information so far at hand inclines
them to the belief that the disease i:
not yellow fever, though conclusive
information is not yet at hand.
, The marine hospital bureau, in view
, of the gravity of the subject, will
await report from DR.. John Guiteras
of the University of Pennsylvania, whc
has been requested to proceed to Ocear
Springs, before any action is taken
The latter is an authority on the dis
ease. He is a Cuban by birth, ha
himself had yellow fever and has speD
l much time in places where it has ex
sted. 1t is felt that his opinion of thu
!, disease should be known before an,
stringent measures of precaution arr
taken, especially in view Of the fac
that the regulations incident theret'
always involve hardships