The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-19
Fewer New Cases AID Only Two
Deaths at New Orleans.
IN STATE OF AFFAIRS.
Majority Of Cases Uader Treatment
Arc Doing Well.
4 GENERAL CLEANING UP DAY
Set for Next Tuesday, when Citincns
OF All Degrees VIII do Hard
sanitary Work.


New Orleans September is Tho board
OF health OF the state OF Louisiana OFF,
c,ailv announces the status OF AFFAIRS In
New Orleans as regards yellow fever TO be
as follows:
During the twentv-four hours ending AT
D. N. TODAY there were; Positive cares
%. yellow fever Ave; suspicious cases I'M
der Investigation. none: deaths, one "a
colored pationN.
Reoapitulat ion--lTotai cases Of yellow
fever TO date. "A: total deaths TO date. J.
Majority OF fever cases under treatment
are reported bv attending physicians as
doing we'll
S. Il. oliphant, President
A. Britton, Acting Mayor,
The hoard OF health VIII not hold any
moro daily meetinEs. the president being
empowered TO carry on the work. Two OF
the PATIENTS In the above list are dying.
One OF the latter is the most serious case
so far that of an Italian woman who was
found sick In the midst OF nest OF ltal-
ians
MANY Of the people In the tenoments
moved away betora the quarantine was es-
tablished and scattered all over tho city,
and their whereabouts are unknown, Citi-
zens have organized volunteer sanitary
force. labor ORGANIZATIONS uniting and they
Will make Tuesday a general :lcan,ng day.
Lator-~The Italian woman. Santa Graf
fato. died in the hospital tonight. making
two deaths today and four since Scplom-
Der 6.
New Orleano, La. September lS,-An Inn
provemont in the fever situation marked
the close OF today's work OF the board OF
health. There was only one death. as on
yesterday, and there were fewer new cases
At o'clock this evening there were stlll
two cases under investigation by the OK
perts and the returns thorefrom win be In
cluaed In tho daily bulletin when II Ia
issued late tonight. OF the cases investl-
gated today they were widely scattered.
This is tho record of new eases: Santa
Gafato, 53l Hospital street: Marie Dubois.
st. Charles avenue. between Cherokee and
Hillary; Rafael Bourtion, 1926 Charles;
Charles German. ZOOS st. Andrews; -.
MticDoiT St. Ciauue street
Death-E Harmon, Tulane avenue.
The fatal case that of ". Harmon. was
reported in laet nights dispatches as one
OF the new cases. and was said 20 be
genuine type of the disease. Harmon was
bright mulatto and had been employed
at tho Cotton Exchange. 1t has not been
found possible TO trace tho origin OF his
case, but ii liz not improbable that ho came
In contact with some OF the summer so
journers at Ocean Springs or Biloxi. Har-
mon died this afternoon He lived in
nest Of the negro population and ever since
h5 case was reported the nelghborhood
has been under the most rigid surveillance.
usual and thc bedding. clothes and other
articles In the room he occupied were con-
signed to the flames while extraordinary
sanitary precautions were taken TO pre-
vent the disease from spreading In the
quarter IN which he lived,
The woman, Graffato IN an Italian, and
as soon as her case was pronounced yell
low fever, steps were taken to have her
removed TO the hospital where arrange
ments had been made TO Isolate her. Tho
charity wagon and attendants were all
thoroughly disinfected after the removal
was made.
Rafael Bourtion Is also an Italian, living
In an apartment house In a neighborbood
In which the Italian population Is very
large. The Italian colony In New Orleans
is an especially large one and members OF
1t huddle together In denAely populated
nelghborhoods and In HOUSES poorly yent-
lated and calculated 10 incubatc fever
germs. The authorities have for come days
feared an outbreak OF fever among these
pnu md huy
rected toward the sanitation OF the neigh
borhoods In which they live. When II WAS
announced that two Cares had broken out
among the colony the board Of health put
itself at once In communication with the
Italian consul with view TO making ar
ranecments with him for the care OF mem
bers OF his race.
The MeIchor case Is that OF boy on the
st. Claude street square. where the first
six cases in New Orleans were reported
Other members OF his family have been III
with yellow fever and there was no sur
prise this evening when IL was learned
that he had succumbed to the disease.
Az a general rule the patients who are
suffering with yellow fever are tonight re-
ported 10 be doing well, with tho exception
OF Or. Lowell, whose condition Is not con-
sidcred satisfactory. There have thus far
been total OF thirty-fiye cases here and
the death rate has not yet reached 10 per
cent as showing the most mild type OF
| fever now prevailing.
Carrying out instructions, DR. Norman.
OF the marine hospital service. today sent
letter to the captains OF the various
steamboats, that land at the New Orleans
wharf to promptly report the hour Of their
departure. The hospital service has In
stitufed here rigid system OF inspection
OF all passengers and three physicians have
| been detailed for this service. Many OF
the captains, however. have been violating
the law relative 10 reporting the hour when
they leave and the result has been that
| boats have been getting away with passen-
gers who did not carry health certificates.
Dr. Norman says that the law will be
strictly enforced against offending captains
| News was received here today that Sur
geon General wyman had appointed Hon.
Ia. NJ Dahlgren. collector OF customs for