Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-15
fWENTY-SIX CASES.
THIS NUMBER OF YELLOw-FEvER
SUSPECTS IN NEW ORLEANS.
EPIDEMIC FOR MOBILE PREDICTED.
The People of That City Alarmed,
and All Who Can Get Away are
Lcaving-Atianta Opens Its Doors
TO Refugees.

Health showed the following recapitula-
ton OF the days Developments in the
yellow-fever situation:
There has been reported to the board
for investigation twenty-six cases. which
the attending physicians considered sus-
| picious. OF these thirteen cases had
been found suffering with a harmless
fever, five cases were regarded as sus-
picious, but necessary TO be further in
| vestigated before a definite report could
be made on them. There were no re-
ports as to four cases, and four cases had
been pronounced genuine yellow-fever,
though one Of the latter was classed as
of mild type.
The most serious Of the four yellow
| fever cases Is located in the neighborhood
of the French market. The locality Is
far from a cleanly one, is populated by
| a poor class Of people, many of whom are
| foreigners. and might be considered dan
gerous ground. For that reason especial
| pains were taken by the Board Of Health
! to quarantine the infected house. Of
ficers from the police force were de-
| tailed TO take charge of the neighbor-
| hood, a restaurant. a bakery, and a shop
next door to the premises in which the
sickness was found were closed up. and
a large quantity of disinfectant was sent
| to the scene to be used.
OF course the report of new cases
l daily is creating alarm in some quarters,
| but thus far the disease has shown but
| little malignancy, there being but one
| .f of
| the practicng physicians are yet on rec
ord as expressing any fear Of an epidemic.
| OLDER PEOPLE ATTACKED.
One Of the features developed during the
| day is that people of maturer age have
| been attacked. Heretofore the disease
| has been confined principally TO children
| of tender age, and boys and girls not yet
| grown TO manhood and womanhood Two
| of the late cases show that old people
| have been stricken.
A conference was held this evening at
| the ST. Charles Hotel. Members of the
| Board of Health, representatives OF the
| Parish Medical Society, and city officials,
| including Mayor Flower, were present.
| The situation was discussed in all its
| phases for two hours behind closed doors,
| and a resolve was made TO spare neither
| effort nor money in controlling the dis
| ease.
Under instructions from the Superin-
| tendent of the Railway Mail Service,
| the post-office authorities to-day fumi-
| gated all outgoing mails, so that letters
| and packages may not be sent back by
! the authorities of quarantining cities and
| towns.
TRAIN TO ATLANTA.
The Louisville and Nashville to-day
ran train to Atlanta, giving people on
| the coast an opportunity to reach the
| Gate City. The train took about twen-
ty ladies and gentlemen from Biloxi,
and a number have left New Orleans
| for that point. The railroad company,
however, refuses to allow passengers to
| take baggage of such nature as to be
good abiding-place for germs.
This afternoon a new case OF fever
| was reported at Barclay. In popula-
| ton Of twenty-five, only three persons
| in Barclay have escaped the sickness,
| and the percentage of deaths has been
| what is usual i'm yelow-fever epidemics.
There were several new cases report
| ed to-day at Ocean Springs, and OF the
number i'll at Biloxi, fifteen We're report
| ed as suffering with yellow-fever. AT
| Ocean Springs DR.. Wasdin, of the Marine
| Hospital staff, is receiving the best of
l attention., anu IL u HOptu Hc VIII pun
| through in few days.
CASES AT PASCAGOULA.
Surgeons Carter and Dunn left Ocean
| Springs for Pascagoula to-day. Cases of
| yellow-fever exist at that point.
Surgeon White has been at the deten-
| ton camp for the past two days. su-
perintending it's construction. AS soon as
| il is ready a large number of people will
md
| Springs. and yellow-fever thus deprived
| of fresh material to feed upon.
SCRANTON AND MOBILE.
| WASHINGTON, September 1t-To-
nights advices from the yellow-fever
district contained the following informa-
| tion:
Surgeon Carter reports another case OF
yellow-fever i'm Scranton, Miss, against
| the spread of which reasonable precau-
| tions have been taken.
! FROM Mobile. Ala, DR.. Guiteras re-
ports three new cases In the southern
part Of the city, where the disease, DR..
| Guiteras says, will soon begin TO assume
an epidemic form.
PEOPLE LEAVING MOBILE.
| MOBILE, ALA, September H.-Three
new cases Of yellow-feyer were officially
announced to-day by the Board of
| Health The announcement caused
much more alarm than the discovery OF
| the first case. The people who can are
| leaving for points of safety. Some 800
worth OF tickets to Atlanta were sold
to-day by the Louisville and Nashville
railway. and outgoing trains are crowd
| ed The same is true of the trains on
the Mobile and Ohio railway.
DR.. Guiteras left to-day for Edwards,
IN cft 70 ha
disease prevailing there When asked
upon what he based his telegram to the
Surgeon General that there would be a
spread Of the disease here, he said that
the city had had long immunity from
disease. and there is much material for
il to feed upon.
REFUGEES INVITED TO ATLANTA.
ATLANTA, GA, September 1i.-At-
lanta is the only southern city which
has not closed its doors against New
Orleans and the fever-stricken district.
The action of the Mayor and the Board
of Health invites all refugees to the city,
and IL is said that thousands will come,
should a general exodus occur at New
Orleans
QUARANTINE AT CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, S. c., September a.
The Board OF Health OF Charleston to-
dav established strict quarantine regu-
lations against New Orleans, Mobile
and tho other fever-infected cities and
districts. City officials have been placed
at Branchvile and Yemassee and pas
seugers, household goods and other
classes of freight from those places will
NOT be allowed TO come into the city in
the future The quarantine will be
strictly maintained.