The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-08
CUTOFF FROM OUTER WORLD
RIGID YELLOW FEVER OUsnaN
 TINE IN INFECTED DISTRICTS.


 Death at Ocean Springs-No Fear of a
 General Exodus from New Orleans.
 Though Travel from the City is Heavy.
 New Orleans, Sept. 7.-Night fell in New Orleans without single case of yellow fever having been reported to the state board of health. But one inn portant case thus far has been devel- oped here. and death has wiped that out
 The board of health tonight, through sts president, Dr. Oliphant, and it's president pro tenn, Dr. Walmsley, de- clared that in spite of all reports to the contrary not one of the many who had come hither from Ocean Springs had been stricken with the dread disease.
 The afternoon dispatches to the As sociated Press contained g. statement made on authority of the marine hos pital officials in Washington that Dr. oliphant had telegraphed Dr. Weedin at Mobile that two deaths had occurred eeAu ehCiG NeIS tIlIee HeW CdSeS.
 Dr. Oliphant affirms with emphasis that he signed no such dispatch, nor did any representative of his, and that 1t was unjust thus to create alarm in the public mind when there was no foundation for the statement.
 There seems to be no threatened eX- odus from the city. All but one road reports business outgoing as normal. The Northwestern officials said they were carrying g somewhat heavier con- signment of passengers than ordinarily and attributed the increase to the na- tural fear of unacclimated strangers.
 One additional death has been report ed at Ocean Springs with symptoms of yellow fever. The victim is mulatto. No new cases had been reported during the afternoon. Ocean Spring has now been absolutely cut off from the outside world. Serious suffering is certain to follow. It was said this afternoon there was only one ton of ice in the town and there is no way to get it, as it is near where the fever rages. If requir- ed, city physicions will volunteer to aid the local doctors.
 Jackson, Miss, Sept "A telephone message from Dr. McCallum at Ed wards, Miss, emphatically denies the existence of yellow fever in or near the town.
 It is now stated that the Anderson family was suffering from dengue fever and that they are now recovered. Dr. ] McCallum says that Hon. Sid Cham pion, who died at Edwards Sunday eve ming, was suffering from malarial fey- CT.
 Washington, Sept. 7.-The treasury department has procured two hundred tents from the war department for use at the permanent yellow fever deten- tion camp, which has been established at Waynesville, Ga. There are no fev- CT patients there, but the camp has been established as a precautionary 1 measure.
 The officials at the surgeon generals | office are quite anxious that Dr. Guite- 1 ras should be on the ground as soon as | possible, as they think so much of his | opinion in yellow fever cases as to be guided entirely by it in their action. So | far their advices are confirmatory of | the press reports that the epidemic is of the nature of yellow fever. Still, it is evident that even yet they are not | entirely convinced of the correctness of the reports as received, and there is apparently strong inclination to doubt their accuracy. They say that If the disease is yellow fever it is very strange that out of six hundred cases there should have been only twelve deaths.
 This afternoon the marine hospital received two telegrams from Dr. Was lin at Mobile, which had been delayed Il transmission. One reported that President Ollipha1t, cf the Louisiana tate board of health, reported another leath from yellow fever in New Orleans lnd three new cases The other telc- ram said that two new cases were re- ,orted in New Orleans.
 Surgeon Murray who has been sta toned at Mobile, but who has been on cave, has been ordered to return at 'nce and will take charge tomorrow, Surgeon H. R. Garter Of Chicago. an xpert, who had charge of the outbreak tt Brunswick, Ga, few years ago, ind Surgeon Oakley of Savannah, 'eN' 'N Nit'O oNSiA oi dGlCu lO U1ODlie. AS l he state authorities have yet made no ppeal for assistance, the marine hos 'ital service must confine its work to preventing the disease from being car jed from one state to the other. Cor { ons and detention camps will be es- ablished at Ocean Strings and New Or cans. The theory of Dr. Bailbacher. he acting surgeon general, Is that the risinal disease at Ocean Springs was :. engue end that the case of yellow : ever was imported and superimposed | ron the patients suffering from the t;ler ail:nent. I Jacksonville, Fla, Sept 7.-The state f card of health has issued a proclar,a- ion excluding from the state all per- T 1ns and baggage from the yellow fever s lfected points in Louisiana and Mis- Ii issipri unless accompanied by a certi- f cate that he has not been exposed to o ne disease within fifteen days from i, 1e time of departure. n Biloxi, Miss, Sept. At 10:3O a. m. ~ J. day two we'll defined cases of yellow . ever were reported here. They are '" uarded and no fear is felt r resident Andrews Answer Not Known h