The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-30
A notwithstanding Day
of New Fever
Cases.
Warmer Weather and a Wider
Field the Principal
Reasons.
A Terror StriCkenY Young Man Flees
From His wife and Her
Dead Mother.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 29.-To
day has been a record breaker in the mum
Der Of new cases of yellow fever reported
while the deaths equaled in mum Der those
of any day since the yellow fever was first
discovered in the city.
There are various reasons given FOR the
spread of the disease, but the principal
ones are two-the weather turned warm
again, and owing to the much wider field
to cover, he Board of Health has had
some difficulty in getting every house as
closely guarded as was possible when the
cases here were few IN number, and the
trained officials OF the board were stationed
about the quarantined houses.
The fact that the death rate has been
small and that the chances of an epidemic
have been constantly growing less has
made the general public somewhat care
less and there has been increasing friction
between the quarantined people and the
authorities. Imprisoned inmates ol
houses have been going over back fences
and sneaking out of side doors in order
not 10 be confined, and the result has
been that germs have been scattered and
rapidly developed in these warm days.
In no other season have the authorities
been more strict IN Quarantining houses
and isolating inmates who might be
around the sick, and the result has been
that every possible effort is being made
by certain elements of the community &c
get the better Of tne board.
The increased mum Der of cases here has
caused no general alarm, because the in
crease of deaths has not been in proper.
lion. The death rate is a tritle under !:
per cent, whereas five or six Gays ago il
was shown to be above 10. The conclu-
sion, therefore, is natural that there is nc
increase ln the malignanCy OF the disease
The authorities here still believe that fol
some time longer the new cases will oC.
caslonaily exceed the number on the
books to-day, but they are singularly one
in the opinion that the disease cannot at
tain the proportions OF an epidemic. Inc
following deaths were reported to-day:
Giamoco Russo, 625 st Phillip street
Emile 1aumorS, 1906 St Andrew street.
Mrs. Jennie Afford, 1904 Chartress street
z. c. Handa, 1903 Octsvla street
Among the twenty-tour new cases re.
ported to-day is Ravenai Smith, a mem
Der OF q well-to-dO family. Fivo cases y
peared on Jackson avenue, one of the
fashionable streets of the CT y. Most oi
the patients reported as i'll to-day are OF
tie better class. Late this evening three
cases were reported by DR.. Shepard in the
Sisters OF Charity Convent and earlier in
the day one had appeared in the Poydras
Asylum, so that there are four or five
charitable Institutions that have had tO
report cases IN the past three or four days.
The saddest and most sensational case
reported to-day was that of Mrs. Jennie
Afford, who was stricken with the fever
yesterday. Edward a. Reppert, her SON.
in-law. greatly terrorized, Immediately
packed his grip and fled North, leaving
his wife to attend her mother in strange
city. NJ s Afford died this morning and
was buried in Two hours and her daug hi ter
is absolutely Frustrated.