The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-25
THE FEVER SITUATION
Ten New Cases aad Foar Dsstha y 4
New Orleans. N n
EDWARDS IS VERY BADLY STRICKEN.
Thirty New Cases, but No Deaths
Were Reported.
FOUR DEATHS AT MOBILE.
One YounE Priest VINO sunday
Warned His Congregation 10 Pre-
pare for the summons.
Yesterdays record.

New orleans, September c4---Tho yellow
fever situation here Is monotonously the
same Tho cases are developing slowly and
the death rate is maintaining ITS usual
ratio TO developed diseases. There Is not,
in the opinion OF the experts. any cause for
fear that there will be an epidemic owing
to the lateness OF the season, but expe-
rienced physicians seem TO feel that tho
disease will hang ON hero for some weeks
longer New Orleans in the meanwhile is
very healthy. but apparently until the
fever is absolutely stamped out we need
not expect 10 find II widespread resumption
OF business. Eminent doctors believe that
the work OF the board OF health Is pro-
ductive OF good results aud that the fever
is not spreading, but on the contrary IL
being confined to localities, II rs confident
ly asserted that no case has yet developed
here that can not be traced In Its origin
to the Mississippi! gulf coast Thus far
there have been few less than 100 cases
and fifteen deaths The death rate is in tho
nclghborhood OF Ii per cent. It was In 1873
l6 per cent 80 that up to the present dine
the disease In about az viruleut as II was
In tho last great epidemic New Orleans
had.
One OF the sensations OF the day was the
announcement that che board OF health had
decided TO prosecute Or. Montukin for
having failed TO report case Of suspicious
fever. In one OF the morning papers q
few days ago DR.. MontuzIn was quoted ms
eaying that there WAS little II any yellow
fewer hero and that the prevailing sickness
was Burmah or sug fever which he de-
scribed as contagious or tffeotiouf, and
quito likely to be attended by about tho
same mortality ne yellow fever. This
morning DR. Montuzln reported to tho
board OF health the case Of Miss Dryfous.
who he said was suffering with yellow
fever. 1t was not long before this report
was received that the board had 10 report
the death Of Miss Dryfous. An invcstiga-
ton proved that Miss Dryfous had been
sick about six days and that Or Montuzin
had failed even to report the case as sus-
picious. This was the record today;
Deaths-- Salvador CasiDar, 1923 Charlea
street. Frederick Gund, 535 Marais street;
Miss Dryfous. SO Bourbon street.
New cases-Child in the Wood family,
Octavia, between st. Charles and Pitts:
Miss Mccall. 1910 Jackson; Miss Mamie
McNeeloy. 100 st. Louis Gertrude Kerr.
S3l Bourbon: John APPEL S32 Howard:
Kate Murray. colored 1898 Magazine; Ro-
selia Baldlng colored. 5i5 Washington;
Joseph Reuther, $40 Robertson Miss Dry
fous. 80 Bourbon
or the new cases that in the Wood fam
lily was developed where two cases already
existed. ss
The case OF Miss Mccall is on one o.
the most prominent avenues OF the city.
No previous case has appeared on tho
street
The case in the Kerr family is also where
fever was already existing.
The news today ls especially noteworthy
because two colorcd girls have been strick-
en- OF the ninety odd cases In New Or
leans from the beginning but four have
been among the negro population. There
are still several serious cases among those
who are III. but the board OF health Is
daily discharging patients as cured.
Mayor Flower today ordered a force Of
policemen to guard the Beauregard school.
only portion OF the building was burned
last night and It IL still possible to use
the structure as a hospital for the treat
nent OF yellow fever patients. The stua-
ton here is generally unchanged. Freight
is moving slowly and there Is practically
no passenger traffic. business goes along
as usual--that la. locally. The theaters are
still open and amusements are not re-
strained. But that New Orleans is losing
| hundreds OF thousands OF dollars by fool
| ish quarantine Is not to be doubted. The
ordering by the Southern Pacific COM
pany OF the steamer FL Norte from New
York to Galveston means that all Eastern
freight destined for the Pacific coast will
go through the Texas port until the quar-