Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-24
THE YELLOW PEST.
Its Progress in the South Appears
to Be Slow.
A FEW NEW CASES REPORTED DAILY,
No Deaths Have Occurred Mt Amy
Point for Several Days-Confldencc
IL Being Restored at New Orr
leans and Mobile.

Washington, Sept. 22.-Surgeon Gen.
eral Wyman has sent Geographic
summary of the yellow fever situation
to the secretaries of the boards OF health
at Raleigh, 8. c.; Florence, s. c.; Bowl
ing Green, KY; Montgomery, Ala;
Jackson, Miss; Jacksonville, Fla; Lit
tie Rock, Ark; st. Louis, Mo-; Nash
vile, Tenn; Indianapolis, Ind;
Springfield, Ill.,; Columbus, o.; New
Orleans, La; Austin, Tex, and Atlanta,
Ga. 1t shows total of cases up to Sep
TENDER 20 rs follows: AT New Orleans,
81; Mobile, 10; Cairo, a; Burnley, Miss,
10; Biloxi, Miss, 22; Edwards, Miss,
IS; Ocean Springs, Miss, IL; at other
points, 10; total 160.
Situation mt New Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept. 22.-There were
nine cases of yellow fever reported to
the board of health Tuesday afternoon
at six o'clock when the days work of
the physicians ended. There were,
however, no deaths recorded, and the
doctors all agreed that the situation
was steadily improving. The fever at
present, instead of developing into a
malignant type, is Us mild, if it is not
milder, than when it first appeared
here, us witness, ~ cases in two days
without a single death. The inspectors
Of the board of health reported that
most of the cases that had come under
their observation were progressing
most favorably. There are only two
cases which give the attending physi-
clans any reason for alarm.
Up to the present time there has been
little dread of the fever. Sporadic cases
are appearing about town, but the board
of health, thus far, has been enabled
successfully to quarantine each case
that has appeared. Confidence locally
is steadily increasing. There never was
a large measure of apprehension in New
Orleans, but the city seems now to have
settled down to the belief that there
is absolutely no danger of an epidemic,
and that within very brief space Of
time, even before frost, the physicians
will have succeeded In completely
stamping out the sickness.
In Oh interview DR.. Touatre, one of the
experts of the board of health and a
physician of long and successful expe-
rience in yellow fever epidemics, demon
strates quite clearly by reference to
statistics of the past that 1t is not with
in the bounds of possibilities that a yell
low fever epidemic should occur during
the present season. DIR. Touatre con-
cludes by saying that with the measures
Err lott Of vx,h{ hn
board of health demands, the city runs
no risk of an epidemic. In connection
with the above it may be of interest to
state that DR.. Touatre has gone through
eight epidemics, has had the yellow
fever himself and has treated upwards
of 2, 400 cases of that malady.
The total cases of yellow fever to date
in this city are 81; total deaths, 8.
At Mobile.
Mobile, Ala, Sept. 22-Tucsday was
another day of favorable report. There
was only one new case reported. One
case was discharged, leaving under
treatment rs, all of whom are progress
ing favorably. There have been but
three deaths, and none since Saturday
/ The old physicians shake their heads
and declare that there is the most
curious manifestation of yellow fever
seen in the south. So many of the re-
, ported cases have failed to further de-
velop their yellow fever characteristics
that not few old doctors seem dis
posed to doubt the correctness of the
diagnosis. Traffic is picking up daily,
despite the rigid quarantine main
tanned. The Mobile & Birmingham road
on Tuesday got through train with
| local and through cotton and some
through freight for the first time since
the 18th.
AT st. Louis.
st. Louis, Sept. 22.-This city had a
yellow fever scare Tuesday, but there
(. seems to have been but little founda.
ton for it, according to Health Commits
sioner Starkloff, who made an examina-
ton of the suspected case, and declared
that it showed not single symptom of
the dread disease that is raging in the
south. Two hundred clerks, with their
| families, employed in the general Off
ces of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad com.
pany, at Mobile, Ala, arrived hsre Tues
day night, temporary headquarters OF
the road having been established in this
city until after the yellow fever has died
out in the south. DIR. Starkloff was
asked what would be the effect of sc
many people from the midst of the
fever-stricken district coming into this
city. He said he had no fear that the,
would spread the plague. At the worst
there could only be sporadic cases, and
these would be quickly reported to the
health department and promptly iso.
| lated. The doctor declared that it was
4 too cold here for spread of the dis
ease.
Cairo, ILL.,, Sept. 22-There is nc
change in the situation here. The vel
low fever patients in the Marine hos
pitalare convalescing, and will be out il
few days. There are no new cases
and there is scarcely any sickness of an,
kind. The case on the dredge boat Gam
ma at East Cairo is isolated, and is re
ported doing nicely. The weather Il
favorable for the patients. There wa.
light frost here Monday night, which
will do much to kill the yellow fevel
here in case any exists.
Death of "a Historian.
Berlin, Sept. 22.-Prof. Wilhelm Wat
tenbach, the German historian, is dead
He was born in 1912, and was the au
thor of many valuable volumes of his
tory.
J Many Are Ill.
\ Toledo, o., Sept. 22.-About 80 In
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