The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
Twenty-Five People Seized with the
Day, and Five Deaths Reported.
EDWARDS A VAST HOSPITAL
TWENTY-FOUR NEW VICTIMS, MAX
ING 246 SINCE THE OUTBREAK.
Half the Population Attacked by the
The Scare i'm the Lone Star State.

NEW ORLEANS Sept. 29-To-day has
been a breaker in the number of new
cases of yellow fever reported, while the
deaths equaled in number those Of any day
since the yellow fever was first discovered
in the city. This was the record to-day:
Deaths
GIACOMO RUSSO, 625 St Philips street
EMILE TAMMORS. 1906 st. Andrews
street.
MRS. ELIZABETH ASHFORD, 1904 Char
tres street.
PARK C. HANDS, 1887 Octavia street
New Cases
- BURNS, Phillip, near Chippewa
DAVID MITCHELL. 52s Esplanades
street.
MISS MAUD sTREcK. 62o jackson
street.
RAvENEL SMITH. 2s1s St. Charles
street.
ALEX. BURRAGE 2109 Melpomene
str let.
GERTRUDE CARTER (colored). 1926 Jo-
Seph street.
FRANCIS HACKNEY, Poydras Asylum
WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN, 1898 Chippe-
wa street
MISS PIGIE PETTUS, Octavia, between
St. Charles and Pitt street.
GEORGE HYNSON, Valmont and South
Rampant street.
MISS OLIVE HEWITT, 174S jackson
street.
MISS MELANNIE HEWITT. 174S jack
son street.
MISS ELLEN FREERET, 1871 Second
street.
MISS AUGUSTA DICKINSON, 1885 Jack
son street.
MISS MINERVA DICKINSON, 14S9 Jack
son street
MRS. JAMES GRAY, 52S Esplanades
street.
JOHN LOTION Charity Hospital.
JAMES GORMAN, Charity Hospital
BERNARD DAZETT, $3.50 st. Thomas
street.
A. M. HICKNEY, detention camp.
S. J. HOLLISTER, detention camp.
THREE CHILDREN, in Sisters of Char
ity Convent; names not ascertained.
EDWARD ENGELBRECHT, 4SOS South
Front street.
Among the new cases reported to-day is
Ravenel Smith, member of a well-to-do
family. Five cases appeared on Jackson
street, one of the fashionable streets of the
city, Most of the patients as reported i'll
to-day are of the better class. Late this
evening three cases were reported by DR..
Shepard in the Sisters of Christian Charity
Convent and earlier in the day one had APP
peared in the Poydras Asylum, so that
there are four or five charitable institutions
that have had to report cases in the past
three or four days. The saddest and most
sensational case reported to-day was that
of Mrs. Elizabeth Ashford, who was stricken
with the fever yesterday. Edward A. Rep
pert, her son-in-law, greatly terrorized, i'm
mediately packed his grip and fled North,
leaving his wife to attend her mother in
a strange city. Mrs. Ashford died this
morning and was buried in two hours and
her daughter is absolutely prostrated.
There are various reasons given for the
spread of the disease, but the principal
ones are two that the weather turned warm
again and owing to the much wider field
to cover, the Board of Health has had
some difficulty in getting every house as
closely guarded was possible when the
cases here were few in number and the
trained officials of the board were stationed
about the quarantned houses. The fact that
the death rate has been small and that the
chances of an epidemic have been con-
stantly growing less have made the general
public somewhat careless, and there has
been increasing friction between the quar-
antined people and the authorities. I'm
priSoned inmates of houses have been going
over back fences and Sneakipg out OF side
doors in order not to be confined, ana the
result has been that more germs nave peen
warm days. In no other season have the
authorities been more strict H. quarantlning
houses and isolating inmates who might be
around the sick, and the result has been
that every possible effort is being made by
certain elements of the community to get
the better of the board. The increased
number of cases here has caused no gen
erAl alarm because the increase OF deaths
has been IN proportion. The death rate is
tri1e under u per cent, whereas hVe or
six DAYS ago it was shown to be above 10.
The cGnclusion therefore, is natural that
there is no increase in the malignancy or
the disease. The authorities still believe
that for some time longer the new cases
will occasionally exceed the number on the
hooks to-day, but they are singuarly one
in the opinion that the disease cannot at
tain the proportions of an epidemic.
The Board of Health Of the State OF
Louisiana officially announces the status of
affairs in New Orleans as regards yellow
fever to be as follows: During the twenty
four hours ending Sept. 20 at 8 p. m. there
were: Cases of yellow fever to-day, twen-
ty-fye: deaths to-day, four. Total cases of
yellow fever to date, 2o4 Total deaths from
yellow fever to date, twenty-five
Outside of the above Pierre Poublano,
Frenchman died at the isolation hospital
tonight The citizens sanitary committee
met tonight and received reports from all
wards showing that the city is in perfect
sanitary condition. The great work will be