Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-07


ing telegram from the two members Of
the STATE Board OF Health who went to
ocean Springs, Miss. yesterday, TO in
vcstgate the yellowfever scare:
after a most thorough investigation
10 every conceivable light, II is the unani-
nous opinion OF representatives of the
louisiana, Alabama. and Mississippi
STATE Boards of Health and the Marine
Hospital service that the fever now pre-
yaliing in Ocean Springs is yellow-fever
signed III II. HARALSON,
81. F. HUNTER"
Marine Hospital Opinion.
WASHINGTON. September 6.--The Ma
zine Hospital Service is investigating the
fever at Ocean Springs. Miss. and the
Information so far received inclines them
10 the belief that the disease is not yel-
l1w-fever. though conclusive information
Is not yet at hand. Surgeon-General
Wyman IS absent from the city. He has
been attending the British Medical Asso-
citation meeting at Montreal. and is now
at Vineyard Haven. on his way back
During his absence Surgeon Bailhache is
in charge. The cases at Ocean Springs
were first called to the attention OF Dr.
Bailhache last Friday, in a telegram
from Acknowledgment Warsdin. who is
stationed at Mobile asking permission
10 accompany the Board Of Health to
Ocean Springs. DR.. Wardin was directed
20 proceed. Yesterday morning he tele-
graphed as follows: "Trive or six hundred
cases here; have seen five; an epidemic
Infection; spread by carriage. mostly
white. -paroxysmal disproportion i'm
pulse prostraton. Insisted upon an au-
topsy upon an adult of 60. Matter under
advlsement. Drs. Oliphant HARRISON,
Saunders, and others will be here later"
A copy of this telegram was trans
mitted 70 Surgeon-General Wyman, at
Vineyard Haven, and he Immediately re-
questcd Dr. John Guiteras, professor of
the University Of Pennsylvania, TO pro-
ceed TO Ocean Springs. DR.. Guiteras was
formerly in the Marine Hospital Service.
and is the acknowledged authority on
fevers in this country.
BELIEVES IT DENGUE.
DIT. Bailhache also wired DIR. Wardin to
inquire into the results Of the autopsy
and consultations TO give the number of
inhabitants at Ocean Springs and the
number of fatalities Dr. Wardin replied
that the population of Ocean Springs,
which is a summer resort on the Gulf
coast near Boloxi, is about 1900 in winter
and about 5000 i'm summer. He also re-
ported the existence of malaria. condi-
ton of the blood said TO be never present
In yellow-fever cases. DIR. Bailhache
SAYS that DR.. Wardin is making bac-
THEOLOGICAL investigation, to determine
the existence of yelow-fever germs. He
CDr BaIIhache) believes that the disease
Is dengue-fever
About ten days ago, he says. the State
Board of Health of Mississippi investi-
gated the fever, and pronounced 1t
dengue. If it should. however, prove to
be yellow-fever, he says the lateness of
the season will materially aid the au-
thorities i'm keeping IL confined to the
locality in which it has broken out, and
he gives assurances that there will be no
widespread epidemic of the dreaded
scourge.
QUARANTINE MEASURES.
NEW ORLEANS. September 6.-Presi-
dent Oliphant. of the Louisiana Board of
Health. has sent telegram to that board,
confirming the report of the physicians
at Ocean Springs, declaring that the pre-
valling sickness there is undoubtedly yell
low-fever. The doctors came to this con-
clusion after holding an autopsy on the
body OF a person who died yesterday.
Couriers are now skirmishing around
the city for sufficient members to make
ND a State board Of health, in order
10 quarantine Ocean Springs, which is
about 100 miles from this city, Rigid pre-
cautions will be taken to isolate the
Springs. and ii is confidently hoped here
by the leading physicians that the pre-
cautions will be successful in keeping
the disease from spreading 10 this place
There is little or no alarm here, but
sojourners on the coast are returning TO
the city. and will spend the balance OF
the hot weather at home.
The fever has been prevalent at Ocean
s9rings for some time. Two weeks ago,
after careful investigation, the Louisiana
authorities declared the disease TO be
dengue. which it probably was at that
time. the disease being mild and the
death-rate trifiing. During the past
week. however, the disease has become
more virulent. and has probably de-
yeoped into yellow Jack"
GUARDS ON THE TRAINS.
The State Board of Health has decided
10 enforce rigid quarantine against
Biloxi and Ocean Springs. Quarantine
Will also be enforced against the other
watering-places on the coast until Presi-
dent Oliphant returns, and more light is
obtained on the situation. Guards are
20 be put on the trains and at the sta
tions. an baggage is to be fumigated. and
every procaution is to be taken TO keep
the disease out Of the city.
Tie Louisville and Nashville trains have
been ordered not TO stop at either Biloxi
or Ocean Springs. The houses Of all peo-
pie who have returned to New Orleans in
the past two days are to be thoroughly
fumigated.
Raoul Gelpi. who had been spending the
sumner al Ocean Springs. and was
brought 10 this city Thursday. died this
morning. Dr. Wamsley, acting health
efcer. after an autopsy, announced that
Geipl had died Of yellow-feyer. The
authorities have taken possession OF his
huse. which will be thoroughly fumi-
eted, and all precautions taken 10 pre-