The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-13
YELLOW FLAG UNFURLED.
NEW ORLEANS NOW HAS SEVEN
CASES OF FEVER.


Board of Health viii Try to Pre-
vent Its Gaining a FOOthOId-An
the Present Cnses CIassed as Ina
Dortations-Situation Yesterday in
the Infected District.
New Orleans, Sept. 12-Shortly before
noon to-day the board of health officially
declared six of the suspicious cases of
fever on St. Claude street to be yellow
fever.
A couple of hours subsequently the board
announced another pronounced case of
yellow fever al Miro and Esplanade
streets, also in the lower part of the city,
but mile or more away from the infect
ed square.
The announcement of the first six eases
as yellow fever was not unexpected, al
though 1t was hoped from the delay on
the part of the experts that these cases
were Simply bilious malaria. No general
| alarm has resulted here, although the
news rapidly spread through the city. The
authorities do not believe that the sltua-
ton is materially worse than 1t was four
or five days ago, and they are still con-
! tary appliances to successfully quarantine
the infected districts
The official bulletin of the board of ex-
perts declaring the st. Claude street cases
10 be yellow fever was received by Pres
| ident Oliphant soon after II o'clock. DR..
| Olphant Immediately sent for members
of the press and gave out the report which
was signed by Drs. Lemonier, Touatre,
Bick, Petit and Parham of the board of
experts, and Or. Devron. the attending
| physician.
OF the original twelve cases, all of which
had their origin from a case that had
como from Ocean Springs, the six other
than those reported to-day as yellow fever
were announced this afternoon to be prac-
tically well, up and waking about their
! homes. OF the SIX pronounced yellow
fever four are convalescent and two
were declared to be critically i'll, one of
these having suffered a relapse since yes
terday.
Among the suspicious cases reported yes
terday was that of a boy named Roy, liv-
ing at Miro and Esplanade streets. Drs.
Lemonnier, Touatre and AIatras were
sent to make an observation of the case.
| This afternoon they pronounced 1t to be
unquestionably yellow fever, and as hav-
ing apparently had It's origin in Scranton.
Miss, or in the vicinity of that town. As
soon as the report was received the board
| of health took charge of the house, quar-
antined the inmates. placed guards so that
! no one might come within close proximity
| to the premises, and set to work to thor
! oughly disinfect the neighborhood.
! brother of the patient, who had left the
| premises some time before the official an
| nouncement, was given permit to return,
| but orders were issued that under no cir
| cumstances to let him or any member of
the household again leave the premises.
To a correspondent of the Associated
Press, President Oliphant said this after
noon:
"Of course 1 have made this announce
| ment of the existence of seven cases of
yellow fever In New Orleans. with sincere
regret but there was no alternative left
me, under my pledge to keep faith with the
! public here, and elsewhere, l do not think,
| however, there is occasion here for serious
alarm unless conditions shall grow mater
tally worse. We shall have to wait devel-
opments.
PERSONALLY, am unable to say whether
or not these cases are of q mild or severe
| type. The absence of mortality would seem
to indicate that they are in the former
class. That there has been no spread
would seem to strengthen that view l
have no reason to doubt, however, that
the complete sanitation Of the neighbor-
hood Instituted by the board and the rigid
quarantine enforced has gone a long way
toward restricting the disease to the st.
Claude street square in which the cases
originated, and l take hope from this fact
that I'VE shall still be able to confne the
! limit Gtt
ton is certainly no worse now than 1t was
four or five days ago. For the disease be-
ing yellow fever now, must have been the
same then.
1--WE have now had total Of eight
cases and one death, the origin of all
Of which may be traced to the infected
towns on the Mississippi coast. They may
all be classed as importations.
Il see no occasion for any panic In New
Orleans The general health of the city
Is good. and it is rapidly being put in
fine sanitary condition. There is no pres
ent apprehension of an epidemic, and l
have rea son to hope that we shall con-
tinue to be masters of the situation"
A number Of additional suspicious cases
were again reported to the board Of
health to-day. In each instance physi-
clans were a. once dispatched to investi-
gate. Their reports have been uniformly
that the suspicious were groundless. The
of health has been largely increased, and
the board is In communication with ev-
cry section of the city.
Acting Mayor Britton and the members
of the conference committee met the
board of health to-day and discussed the
question OF sanitation. 1t was reported
that arrangements had been made with
the water works company and with the
large plants on ne river front to furnish
an ample supply of water Many of the
cutters were being flushed to-day, and 1t
was said that practically every one in the
city would have running water in It to-
morrow heavy rain storm visited New
Orleans this morning and assisted in clean
ing the streets. Commissioner of Public
Works McGary said that he would add
materially TO his force tomorrow, and
that in few days the city would be In a
cleaner condition than it has been for
years. Assurances We're given that the
money requlred-would be Forthcoming to
do all the work contemplated
President Oliphant, soon after he re-
ceived the report OF the experts to-day.
wired Gov. Foster, who had requested to
be kept fully informed as to the situation
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