The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-29
CONCERTED WARON FEVER
$4,000 PERSONS ENROLL ED IN VIEW
ORLEAyS's SANITARY CORPS.

There's = Capitals for Every Biock-bst-Up
In Quarantine Restrictions In Many Places
Ocean Springs, Miss, IL New free from
Fever rncticnIIy-Texn Now In q Panic.
New ORLEANS, Sept, 2s.-New Orleans peo-
Pile are now organized for sanitary work.
Nearly $4,000 volunteers are enrolled. There
is a sanitary committee for each ward, 40 dis
trict committees, and a captain to each square,
or block, whose duty It is to look after streets,
cutters, and premises. The steamer Chateau
Yquiem will arrive here on Oct. 8 with a large
number of Italian immigrants. They will not
be allowed to land at New Orleans. but will be
taken Off the vessel below the city by a tug
and conveyed at once to the sugar planta'
lions, where they can secure work.
The State of Louisiana Is furnishing the
tents for tho Oakland Park detention camp.
The accommodations there were increased to-
day to 800. The Louisiana Board OF Health has
decided not to act hastily in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Galveston, but will move only on official In
formation and not on sentiment. The report
Of a death from dengue in Galveston caused
some suspicion here, as dengue Is seldom, II
ever, fatal. Galveston qunrantined to-day against
Houston because of a suspicious case there; IN,
deed, Texas seems to have embarked In the
quarantine and scare business.
Tho New Orleans quarantine against Mobile,
was withdrawn to-day. All persons who are
immune may enter from these places II they
have their baggage disinfected. Inc gparsn.
the. southern Pacific road TO take Dr; carter
and the President of the Louisiana Board, or
was POSTPONED until tomorrow. This will de:
lay the Shreveport quarantine conference until
Friday or Saturday, when 1t is hoped to secure
a uniform quarantine system for the state.
The Alabama quarantine authorities have modi'
fed the quarantine against New Orleans, prac.
tiGnily HGiSeptinF the rules nr Of a she Hni,Sd All St noas
infectious goods and all those goods that can 20
rendered non.infectious by fumigation and dis:
towns save Natchca and Port Gibson have with
drawn their quarantine against tho New Ut
leans papers.
The disappearance OF tho fever in Ocean
Springs is one of the wonders OF the present
outbreak. There are now only four persons
| sick with the fever, all convalcscent, and only
1000 persons in the town. The disease start,
ed at Ocean Springs. and seems to have burned
population had yellow fever, some 40 or so, but
| ESQ had the dengue. 1t seems to be estab.
i liz sf, from IT the ,h experience 5STEns a at v ocean mild SlPf Ts1sr. t ren!
A scare was started to-day at Shreveport to
! fering from the yellow fever. An investiga-
rounding the Town had hung gu, yellow fsgs
led to the report that the yellow fever was rag
ing there. a suspicious case OF fever Is re-
La. Cases OF suspicious fever are reported from
Clinton. Miss. DIR. Dunn Of the Mississippi
Board Of Health has been ordered to go there to
New Orleans had ls new cases Of fever to-day.
making = total Of l7s. The deaths to-day num-
i sersd Of 1T % H aS@spd sf had 10 q ue new cases cases. with with a a
FRANKroRr, KY, Sept. 2s,-Gov. Bradley has
tor TO issue warrants for s., 900 in aid OF the
quarantine against yellow fever.