The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-30
THEIR VIGILANCE RELAXED.
NEW ORLEANS HAS NOT PAID FOR
IMMUNITY FROM FEVER,

NeEsOhs FROM mlectcO houses
Slip Through Lax Guard and
Scatter the Germs of Disease and
Death-A Sentiment Among "A Cer-
tain Glass AntagOnistic to the
Board of Health-For All These
Causes Fever Spreads.
New Orleans, Sept. 29-To-day has been
a record breaker in the number of new
cases of yellow fever reported. while the
deaths equalled in number those of any
day since the yellow fever was first dis
covered in the city.
There are various reasons given for the
spread of the disease but the principal
ones are two, that the weather turned
warm again, and owing to the much wider
field to cover, the 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 station
ed about the quarantlned houses. The fact
that the death rate has been small and
that the chances of an epidemic have been
constantly growing less, have made the
general public somewhat careless, and
there has been increasing friction between
the quarantined people and the authori-
ties. Imprisoned inmates of houses have
been going over back fences and sneaklng
out of side doors in order not to be confined
and the result has been that more germs
have been scattered and rapidly develop
ed in these warm days. In no other sea-
son have the authorities been more strict
in quarantining houses and isolating in
mates who might be around the sick, and
the result has been that every possible ef-
fort is being made by certain elements
of the community to get the better of the
board.
The increased number of cases here has
caused no general alarm, because the in
crease Of deaths has not been in proper
ton. The death rate is a trifle under 12
per cent, when five or six days ago it
was shown to be above 10. The conclu-
sion, therefore, is natural to suppose that
there is no increase in the malignancy of
the disease. The authorities here still
believe that for some time longer the
new cases will occasionally exceed the
number on the books to-day, but they are
singularly one in the opinion that the dis
ease cannot attain the proportions of an
epidemic.
This was the record to-day:
Deaths-Giacomo Russo. 625 st. Philip
street; Emile Tammors, 1906 st. Andrews;
Mrs. Jennie Afford, 1904 Charles. So
Parck C. Hands, 1887 Octavia street.
New Cases Burns, Philip, near
Chippewa; David Mitchell, 52S Esplanades
street; Miss Maude Streyck, $40 Jackson;
Ravenel Smith, 2916 St. Charles; Alex
Burrage, 21O9 Melpomene; Gertrude Car
ter, colored, 1926 Joseph; Francis Hackney,
Poydras Asylum; William mclaughlin,
1898 Chippewa; Miss Pigie Pettus, Vic
toria street, between Charles and Pitud;
George Hynzon, Nalmont and South Ram
part; Miss Olive Hewett, 174S Jackson;
Miss Mellannie Hewitt, 1748 Jackson; Miss
Ellen Freert, 1871 Second; Miss Augusta
Dickinson, 1885 Jackson; Miss Minerva
Dickinson, 1889 Jackson; Mrs. James Gray,
52S Esplanade; John Lotion, Charity hos
pital; James German, Charity hospital;
Bertrand Dazet. $3.50 st. Thomas.
A. NJ. Hickey detention camp.
IS. j. Hollister, detention camp.
Edward Englebrecht, 1903 South Front
street.
Three cases in Sisters of Christian
Charity convent and two in detention
camp.
Among the new cases to-day is Ravene1
Smith, a member of a well-to-do family.
rive cases appeared OH JdchSOn avenue,
one of the fashionable streets of the city.
Most of the patients reported as ill to-
day are of the better class. Late this
evening three cases were reported by DR..
Separed, in the Sisters of Christian Char
ity concent, and earlier in the day one ap-
peared in the Poydras asylum, so that
there are four or five charitable institu-
tions that have had to report cases in the
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. Repperd, her SON
in-law, greatly terrorized, Immediately
packed his grip and fed north, leaving his
wife to attend her mother in a strange city
Mrs. Afford died this morning and was
buried in two hours. Her daughter is
prostrated.