The age-herald., 1897-09-22
MOBILE HAS ONLY ONE CASE
And It Is Thought the Worst Of the Epi-
 demiC Is Passed.
SIXTEEN NEW CASES AT EDWARDS
A Fugitive From the Dredge Boat Alpha Re- ports at St. Louis Marine Hospital Physicians Pronounce It
 Type of River Malaria.

New Orlzans, La, Sept. 21.-There were nine cases of yellow fever reported to the board of health this afternoon at o'clock, when the days work of the phy- srclars ended There were, however, ID 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 milder than when it first appeared here, as Wit ness twenty-eeven cases in two days without single death. The eighteen inspectors of the board of health re- ported that most of the cases that had come under their observation were pro- gressng favorabfy There are only two cases which give the attending physi- clans any reason for alarm.
 These are the ncw eases today:
 JOSEPH ROTH, 1924 Clcoust street.
 FRED GUND, 53S5 Marais strest.
 MRS. M'ANDREWS, 12S Howard street.
 CHILD OF JUD LEA, 1910 Dublin street.
 w. BARTLETT, 1908 Baronne street. MISS NELLIE sCANNELL Ill Berlin street.
 e. w. WOOD, 1435 Octavia street.
 R. F. REYNOLDS, 1885 Coliseum street.
 J. JOOR, 1863 Laura street.
 Some new places of infection are in- cluded in these cases, but it is stated tonight that each one of the patients is doing we'll, and there is no immediate danger of fatal termination in any of these cases
 Up to the present there has been little dread of the fever. Sporadaic cases are appearing about town, but the board of health thus far has been enabled suc- cessfully to quarantine cases that have appeared. There never was a large measure of appreh ension in New Or leans but the city seems now to have settled down to the belief that there is absolutely no dangsr of an epidemic, and that within very brief space of time, even before frost, the physicians will have succeeded in completely stamping out the disease. Mors pa- tients were discharged yesterday and to- day, and the total number of cases re- ceiving strict attention today does not exceed tan. Half a dozen towns today by telegraph or telephone notified the authorities here that they had concluded ito withdraw their restrictions against the receipt of freight from New Or leans. The circular issued by President Oliphant and pr. Carter, of the marine hospital service, seems to have reached all sections of the stata, and authorities in the smaller towns generally have de- cided that there is no danger in re- ceiving from New Orleans properly fumigated freight.
 In an interview Dr. Louatre, one of the experts of the board of health, and a physician of long and successful prac- tice in yellow fever epidemics, demon strated quite clearly by reference to statistics that it is not within the bounds of possibilities that a yellow fever epidemic could occur during the present season. Dr. Louatre concludes by saying that with measures for pre- vention of the epidemic that the board of health demands that the city runs no risk of an epidemic. The statement is made that Dr. Louatre has gone through eight epidemics, has had yellow fever himself and has treated upwards of g. 400 cases of that malady himself,
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