The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-20
Number Of New Gases in EdGh OF
th6 Other Stricken 6iti6S.
Government Prepared te
Care for the Refugees.
Tennessee Declares Quarantine
A6ainsf HE Entire State Of Missis-
sippi-The Plague Finding Scores OF
Victims i'm The Cuban Capital.

relative to tablishing place to which
| INDECENT yellow fever patients might be
removed There are usually 700 or 500
| patients in the charity hospital, and
it is considered dangerous to receive
| yellow fever patients in that institu-
ton. DR.. Bloom said that the hospital
was ready to go to any expense to pro-
vide supplementary hospital. AT this
| conference DR.. Beard submitted an
| offer of the free use of the old small
pox detention camp, which is entirely
disconnected from the smallpox hospi
tai, and it seems likely that the offer
will be accepted. There are now two
patients suffering with yellow fever in
the charity hospital, and their pres
ence, although they occupy isolated
| apartments, is deemed serious
menace to other patients.
! At a largely attended meeting of
| bankers, business men, ministers and
representatives Of laboring organiZa-
tions, it was resolved to ask the board
of health to consider the advisability
of adopting next Tuesday as a general
cleaning day.
Acting Mayor Brittin and President
| Oliphant today replied to the sugges-
| ton strongly deprecating it. They
wrote that it would be inadvisable and
inexpedient to determine upon a fixed
day for cleaning purposes, as such a
movement would cause an accumula
tion of filth and trash which could not
be removed at once, and by stirring up
of miasma would further endanger the
health of the city instead of improving
| it. 1t was suggested therefore, that
each individual inhabitant Of the city
proceed without delay to the cleaning
of his own premises, and to disinfec-
| ton of his water closets, alleys, yards
etc, and the destruction of all decaying
| o to1 h1yH H-n hn lot -
Fcntainebleau was today declared to
have been practically completed and to
| be ready for the reception of guests.
A special train today went to Biloxi
and Ocean Springs and from there
carried about forty people to the camp
Tomorrow the camp will be thrown
open to all comers. Those who are
not immunes will have to stay in the
camp ten days, according to the rules
laid down by Surgeon Murray, these
rules being simply the federal law
| which the surgeon, as the commander
| of the camp, is bound to enforce
There were no new cases reported at
! Ocean Springs up to noon. but the
weather was heavy and sultry and
Cne of the patients was not expected
! to live. She is Miss Laura Atkins.
Charles Zeigler, son of a prominent
New Orleans family, was among those
stricken yesterday at Ocean Springs,
but his condition is not yet considered
serious. When the fever had been de-
clared epidemic and yellow, he closed
| himself up in his home and did not
come forth except to go to the deten-
ton camp as soon as it was ready.
Isolation, however, did not prevent the
| germs from entering his home.
The work of the New Orleans sani-
tary forces continued unabated today,
and the officers employed themselves
! in hunting up many old rockeries,
where people are closely crowded in
| illy-ventilated~ homes and where they
live in filth. Many of these places are
subjected to complete disinfection and
cleaning The weather today has been
warm and threatening.
FOUR NEW CASES.
VICKSBURG, Miss, Sept 19.-The
fever at Edwards shows but slight in
crease and no deaths have occurred
Dr. Purnell reported four new cases
today, as follows: Mrs. DR.. Ratliff
! Frank Angelo, John Ivey, Jesse Sharpe
| (colored.
Distinction has commenced and bed
ding is being burned when it cannot
be disinfected. Dr. Dunn, now at
Ocean Springs, has been ordered to
| Edwards
DR.. Geddings is expected there to-
night as is also tents for camps of
refugees The state board tried 10
prevent Father Prendergast, of this
city, from going to Edwards, but he
considered it his duty and the board
gave way. The board has a report
from Biloxi showing thirty-siX cases
to date, besides six suspects and tWen-
! ty-seven cases of yellow fever now on
hand No deaths reported. Col. Bobb
an aged planter near Edwards, is one
of the cases reported yesterday. Vicks-
burg is thoroughly guarded and en-
tirely healthy.
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss, Sept. 10
Dr. Kells wires DR.. Dunn, from Scran-
| ton, reporting three new cases of mild
fever, no deaths and cases doing we'll
Dispatches from Drs. Hunter and XII
ger, executive committee Of the Mis-