The San Francisco call., 1897-09-22

II is nv no means certain that the patients
have veIIow fever. but the Marine Hospi-
tai surgeons are proceeding on the assump-
ton that they have.
DR.. Paouin sent the following telegram
to Dr. Walter Wyman, supervising sur
geon-general of the Unised States Marine
Hosnital Service:
What facilities has the Marine Service
TO deal with yellow fever in st. Louisf
Do you recommend any action Dy the
State Board of Health o. Missouri to CO.
operate with your efforts? Do you think
the present regulations will prevent fur
ther spread of yellow fever?"
Surgeon General Wyman replied as fol-
lows to DIR. Paquin: "Recom mmend sam
course in st. Louis as was taken IN 1878.
Suggest that yoR look after Point Pleas
ant, Mo-, with reference to dredgeboats
there. Acting Assistant Surgeon Guiteras
has left Cairo for Point Pleasant to inves-
tigate and take immediate measures.
You should assist him"
There was much indignation at the
health department over the report from
Chicago that there were ten cases OF the
fever in St. Louis. DR.. Starkloff, who
received long distance telephone inquiry
from Chicago about IL, said there was no
foundation whatever for such rumOr.
special from Cairo, ILL.,, to the Post
Dispatch, says: DR.. Guiteras has dag
nosed two more cases of illness as yellow
fever, John Miller at ST. Mary's Hospi-
tai and NJ Stevens on the dredgeboat at
East Cairo, Ill. Physicians claim the
cases are only swamp fever and the people
refuse to believe that yellow fever is here.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 1.-There
were nine new cases OF yellow lever re-
ported to the Board of Health this after
noon at clock when tie days work OF
the phys clans ended. There were, how
ever no deaths recorded, and the doctors
all agreed this evening that the situation
was steadily improving The fever at
present instead of developing into
malignant type, is as mild If not mllder
than when it first appeared, as witness
twenty-seven cases in two days without
single death. Tonight the inspectors OF
the Board of Health reported that most of
the cases that had come under the
observation were progres ing most favor
ably. There are nearly twenty cases
which We the attending physicians any
reason for alarm.
Up to the present time there has been
little dread OF the lever. Sporadic cases
are appearing about town, but the Board
OF Health thus far has been enabled sue
cessfully to quarantine each case that has
appeared. Confidence, locally, is steadily
increasing. There never was a large
measure OF apprehension In New Orleans,
but the city seems now TO be settled down
- IIoF h,% iu h-,f1i ta1t mn,
danger of an epidemic, and that within
very brief space of time, even before frost,
the physicians will have succeeded in
completely stamping out the sickness. A
mum Der of cases were discharged yester-
day and to-day, and the total number of
cases receiving strict attention to-day
does not exceed ten.
Half dozen towns to-day, by telegraph
and telephone, notified the authorities
here that they had concluded to with
draw their restrictions against the receipt
of freight from New Orleans. The circular
issued by President Oliphant and Dr..
Carter, OF the Marine Hospital Service,
seems to have reached all sections of the
State, and authorities in the smaller
towns seem to have decided that there is
no danger in receiving from New Orleans
properly fumigated freight.
MOBILE. ALA, Sept. 21.-This was an
other day of favorable reports. There
was only one new case reported to-day.
child named Willie Goodloe, living in the
affected district. One case was discharged.
There have been but three deas and
none since Saturday. DR.. L. o. Summers,
represe nting the Tennessee Board of
Health. has spent two days here. He
made two trips to the persons sick with
the fever, and his opinion is that there is
an exceedingly. mild type of yellow fever
here, all the characteristics being present,