The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-20
DETENTION
CAMPS OPEN.

here from Mobile at noon today, has
pronounced the two suspicious cases
at the Marine hospital to be yellow
fever of mild form. Owing to tll',
| prompt measures taken there is no
danger of it's spreading. The hospital
is thoroughly guarded There are sew
eral cases of sickness on the govern
ment dredge boat Alpha, lying at East
Cairo, KY, and Drs. Guiteras ana
Egan will investigate them tomorrow.
One of the men in the hospital is from
this boat, and the other from Point
Pleasant, eighty-five miles below here.
The board of health has instituted a
strict quarantine against East Cairo.
Tonight DR.. Egan, secretary of the
board of health, issued an order ad
dressed to every railroad entering the
state from the South instituting quar-
antine against the states of Alabama,
| Mississippi and Louisiana. Passengers
for the part of the state south OF the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, Chicago eX-
cepted, will be required to show
clean bill Of health.
There is no excitement here, the peo-
pie feeling confident the corps or board
the situation.
DETENTION CAMPS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Complete
advices were received today by Sur
geon Gen. Wyman. Of the Marine hos
pital service of the movements of his
officials in the yellow fever districts
and of the measures adopted to pre-
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expected that soon their detention
camps will be in operation-that at
| Fontainbleu. Miss; one near Edwards
or Jackson, Miss, and another at the
| Mount Vernon barracks, Ala. Dr. Wy
man thinks that the system of inspec-
ton is now pretty thoroughly organ
lied.
Surgeon White at Camp Fontain-
bleu reports that he has admitted dur
ing the past six days thirteen persons,
and today forty-two persons and some
are expected from Mobile tomorrow.
The camp is laid out with 200 tents and
100 more can be added.
Four Scranton people were today dis
charged from the camp by consent Of
DR.. Kell.
The arrival of about seventy-five
refugee at Atlanta yesterday was re-
ported by Surgeon Sawtell. There was
one suspicious case, slightly i'll, which
will be detained at the detention camp
for ten days. The person is Mr.. Hunt,
from Mobile.
The Tennessee state board of health
has ordered quarantine against the en-
tire state of Mississippi.
1t is probable that old Mount Vernon
barracks, five miles north of Mobile,
will be converted into a detention
camp.
REFUGE FOR ITALIANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 19.-The To-
cal fever situation has undergone
little change since yesterday. At 6
o'clock tonight the record book in the
board of health Office showed a total
of six new cases and one death. The
official bulletin to be issued tonight
will show two deaths, that of the wo-
man Santa Graffeta who died in the
hospital last night, not having been
included in the official bulletin, al
though reported in the Associated
Press dispatches This is the record
today:
Death: Joseph Gistasy, an Italian, No. 1926
UrQuhart street.
New cases: Rosalie Bacus, Hillary and
Burth; John Deill, Plum, between Cambronne
and Jefferson; Irene Terrell, Charity hospi-
tal William Brandon, 6S9 Philip street; Nora
H. Hynes 3147 st. Claude street; Lena Green
colored, 1868 Camp street.
The first two cases are in the ex-
treme upper portion Of the city; one is
in the Fourth district, one is in the st.
Claude street house where the original
six cases were reported, and one is in
the Williams house, where two cases
already existed. There are three cases
under investigation, and the health au-
thorities tonight still view the situa-
ton with some complacency. They do
not yet anticipate an epidemic, as at its
meeting last night the board decided
to abandon it's nightly sessions and
created DR.. Oliphant master of the
campaign against the disease with
leave to solicit advice from local ply
sicians and the municipal authorities.
The afternoon and night bulletins will
be continued. The report of DR.. Metz,
the city chemist, on the condition of
the Italian quarter moved the board to
prompt acceptance today of the offer
of the city Of the marine hospital as a
refuge. Dr. Metz found as many as
sixty people huddled together in the
Italian quarters living in squalor and
filth. In one of the rooms goat was
found sleeping nightly with a family
who owned it. The woman Graffato
was taken from this quarter, and the
board realized that unless something
was done at once the block in which
the woman had lived was likely soon
to become a plague spot. 1t was, there
fore, decided to guard and thoroughly
disinfect and fumigate the entire
square, and to remove as soon as pos
sibIe most OF. the families to the old
marine hospital. The hundred squat
ters, who now occupy the latter build
ing, will be given quarters in one of
the new school houses in the vicinity,
and the marine hospital buildings will
be permanently used as a refuge until
the fever is stamped out, for the fam
lilies of the italian quarters and those
of the INDECENT sick throughout the
city.
: House Surgeon Bloom had con-
ference with President Oliphant today,