The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-22
ESTIMATES SEEM LOW
A SIMILAR BULLETIN WILL BE
ISSUED DAILY.
A GREAT HUhLY-BURLY AT ST. LOUIS
The Biousness Of One VIM. Trpt Sets Health
Officer Starkleoff by the Ears 200
Railroad Clerks Arrive From
Mobile, With Families,


General Wyman today sent the following
telegraphic summary of the yellow fever
situation to the State health authorities
throughout the South and Southwest:
Total yellow fever cases officially re-
ported as follows:
Mobile, to September 10Th, IS; Sep
tember 20th, 1.
Cairo, September 10Th, 2; September
Goth, ..
New Orleans, to September 10Th, 80;
September Goth, Is 60 of these 1S pre-
viously existing, but reported on the
2Oth).
''Barkley, Miss, to September 18th, TO-
"Biloxi, to September 10Th, %.
Edwards to September 10Th, is; Sep
tember 20th 2
ocean Springs, to September 18th, IL
"Pascagoula, to September 10Th, i.
Scranton, to September 10Th, 2; Sep
tember Goth, Is.
''Perkinston September 10th, l."
The foregoing was sent to the secretar-
les of the Boards Of Health at Raleigh,
y. c.; Florence, S. c.; Bowling Green.
Ky: Montgomery, Ala; Jackson, Miss;
Jacksonville, Fla; Little Rock, Ark; st.
Louis, Mo-; Nashville, Tenn. Ind:anapo-
lis, Ind; Springfield, Ills; Columbus, o.;
New Orleans La; Austin, Tex, and At
lanta, Ga.
A similar bulletin will be issued daily
and telegraphed to the State authorities
at the foregoing points.
Arrangements were made today to eX-
pedite the mails through Mississippi and
Alabama after thorough fumigation.
A SCARE AT ST. LOUIS.
st. Louis, Mo-, Sept 21-This city
had yellow fever scare to-day, but
there seems to have been but little foun-
dation for it, according to Health Com
missioner Starkleoff, who made an eX-
animation of the suspected case and de
clared that it showed not a single symp-
tom of the dreaded disease that is rag
ing in the South.
The suspect is VIM. Tript, 80 years of
age, who reached the Marine Hospital
Monday morning. He had a high fever
and said he came frome the government
dredgc boat Alpha, engaged in revet-
ment work near East Cairo, Ky. DIR.
c. Il. Decker, physician in charge of
the Marine Hospital, became interested
in the case when he was told by Tript
that he had been working on the Alpha,
several cases of yellow fever to the
Marine Hospital at Cairo, Illinois.
Thinking it case for investigation, he
telephoned Health Commissioner Stark
eoff, but it was 1 o'clock before that
doctor could get to the hospital. He
examined Tript, and then returned to
his office in the city hall, where he was
seen by representative of the Asso-
a.. Xn1 ~.
Starkleoff said:
Il have made thorough examination
of Tript with Doctors Jordan and Deck
er. The analysis as presented to me
makes the case to be one of ordinary in
termittent fever. If it is yellow fever
it is of a very mild type. There are
none of those alarming symptoms, such
as suppression of the kidney functions
and constipation--the two things that
kill in yellow fever. Besides, the man
had an appetite for breakfast. He looks
yellowish and has a foul breath, like
all malarial patients.
'TTript says his home is in Illinois,
and that for several months he had been
working on the dredge boat Alpha near
Cairo. He has been sick for several
days. He boarded a box car on the Iron
Mountain road in the Cairo yards early
Monday and came here. When he left
the box car he went directly to the
Marine Hospital.
II shall have the patient sent to quar-
antine, where DR.. Woodruff is in charge,
and take all necessary precautions"
Two hundred clerks, with their fami-
lies, employed in the general offices of
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
at Mobile, Alabama, arrived here to-
night, temporary headquarters of the
road having been established in this
city until after the yellow fever has
died out in the South. DIR. Starkleoff
was asked what would be the effect
Of so many people from the midst of
the fever stricken district coming into
this city. He said he had no fear that
they 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
isolated. The Doctor declared that it
was too cold here for a spread of the
disease.
DIR. Paul Paquins secretary OF the
Board of Health. received information
to-day that two cases supposed to be
yellow fever had developed on a dredge
boat at Point Pleasant, Missouri. 100
miles below Cairo. 1t is not certain
that the patients have yellow fever, but
the Marine Hospital surgeons are pro-
ceeding on the assumption that they
have.
DR.. Paquin sent the following tele-