The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-12
ONLY ONE CASE CONCEDED
BILOXI, WITH FEVER QUARAN-
TINES OCEAN SPRINGS.
STILL GUARANTEEING NEW ORLEANS
Some Towns Are Forced to This Step by
Threats From Other Towns. The Situa-
ton on the Whole Seems to be in
Hand and improving.

Hand and improving.
New Orleans, La. Sept. 1l.--New Or
leans is to be treated to the most thor
ough cleaning she has had in many
moons. During the day Mayor Flower
and President Olphant met the heads
/ of the various departments of the city
| in conference at which Il ma jority of the
council We're present. The conference
| $1,000 with which to begin the wori;
with the understanding that any portion
| of fifty thousand necessary to conclude
| il would be Forthcoming when required.
| 4 large force of men will be put al
once to work and New Orleans will bt
| treated to Il first class bath.
| This afternoon Mayor Flower issued
/ a proclamation to the people calling for
general cleaning up about their homes
and a general use OF bi-chloride of lime.
! The health situation in New Orleans
| has steadily improved to-day. The board
| Of experts issued Il bulletin concerning
| the St. Claude street patients and de-
| clared that of the twelve cases only one
| might be considered suspicious and the
! other cases have so much improved IA
| to warrant no apprehension that any will
! result fatally.
! The exceptional casc. ii is hoped, viii
! be out of danger tomorrow or next day.
| The usual care i'll guarding the square is
! being exercised The board of heahn
reiterated this evening that there was
not II serious case in the city and there
had thus far been but one ease of yell
low fever III New Orleans this summer.
The best evidence that confidence has
been restored lies i'll the fact that the
matinees of the theatres to-day We're
crowded and that half Il dozen bands
have at different times appeared on the
streets i'll the past twelve hours.
Although there was been Il vast inn
provement, locally. country towns con-
tinue TO issue quarantine cdictS and some
of the towns are being forced to declare
quarantine under threats of other cities.
Monroe. for instance. one of the largest
towns in the State. does not desire TO
stop communication with New Orleans
| but Shreveport and Nicksburg would
quarantine her.
The Illinois Central issued bulletin
to-day that no through passengers on
north bound trains on that road woulI
he allowed to pass through Mississippi
health. Nothing has been reported this
| afternoon of an alarming character from
the coast 4 few cases have been dis
covered but the scourgc is not spreading
with the rapidity usual in yellow feve"
epidemics.
There has been lack of harmony in
! Biloxi. and the friction resulted to-day
! i'll the resignation of DIR. Lemon as presi
dent of the board of health. The work
of plastering Biloxi with disinfectants.
however, continues undated.
| Tomorrow the Mississippi State au-
| thorities will take charge of the situa-
ton at Biloxi. Biloxi. although she has
| fever herself, will continue to maintain
quarantine against Ocean Springs.
/ DIR. Murray and DIR. Guiteras. of the
| Marine Hospital service, to-day went to
| Fontainbleau to hasten the completion
of the camp OF detention. There are
80 people sick in Ocean Springs to-day
| and 400 who have not had the fever
| Ocean Springs is still appealing for
help and especially for trained nurses
| At Jackson. Miss, the mayor and
council declined to raise the quarantine
against New Orleans for the present,
but among the, people there confidence
| is about restored.
| Vicksburg. Miss, is quarantined
| against New Orleans. and is clearing UP
as fast as possible Steamboats, are not
| permitted to land at Natchez. Miss, or
| Vidalia, La, the former place having the
local militia on guard tonight.
Mobile Ala, is reported perfectly
healthy, but her quarantine is so rigid
as to be somewhat irksome. Mail and
express must be fumigated to enter and
the New Orleans papers to-day were
sent back Passengers from infected
places are not allowed to pass detention
camps.
The officials of the Surgeon Generals
office continue to feel greatly encoura ged
over the situation at Ocean Springs and
the progress that has been made in
preparing to grapple with the disease
They congratulate themselves upon the
| fact that there are fewer cases both
| of the dengue and yellow fever than at
| the beginning, and upon the fact that
| their experts and the representatives of
the States interested are cooperating in
perfect harmony.
Surgeon General Wyman tonight tele-
| graphed to Surgeon Murray at Ocean
| Springs. Miss, as follows:
"AlI persons must be detained in camp
ten days. Your selection of camp site
and renting section house and tool room,
purchase of timber, employment of hands
| and procurement of provisions from Mo-
bile approved"
| DR.. w. +. Saunders, at Montgomery,
tonight telegraphed Surgeon Wyman
! that the State health officers had been