The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01
THB YELLOW FEVER.
NO MATERIAL CHANGE IN sITUA.
TON AT NEW ORLEANS

| The Usual Number Of Daily Cases and
Deaths-Efforts to Modify the Quafan.
tine Regulations Business Suffering
Greatly-A slight Increase Of New Cases
ut Moblle-A Suspicious Case NJ Houston.
The Disease Increasing Rapidly ut Ed.
wards and More viruient.
New Orleans September 2s--The yellow
fever situation here continues i exasper-
a.ingiy the same. A dali average Of eigh-
teen to twenty cases and two deaths has
kept up: but while there Is no sign OF an
| epidemical visitation, the slow progress
of the disease puts obstacles daily in the
way Of the merchants and public who
are anxious to again resume trade with
the sur rounding country. The record to-
day was not unlike that of many other
days, in thai it showed a death through
sheer neglect of the patient. Twenty-one
cases up to date have resulted fatally.
The facts are incontrovertible that al
least half died through eglec or lack of
attention.
| Business is showing feeble signs of re-
vival and the railroads are putting for
ward s~uperhuman efforts to secure a mod
i~fcation of the quarantine regulations.
DR.. ELEPHANTS trip up the road tomorrow
at the invitation Of the Southern Pacific
Company, with a view to securing a
modification of existing guarantees. will
settle one way or another whether Or-not
trade is to stagnate for several weeks
longer or whether it is partially to be re-
sumed at once. The trip will also settle
the question of whether or not New Or
leans will raise the bar against Calves
ton and other Texas points. In the mean
time, the Crescent city finds itself inca
pable of shipping a pound of freight TO
the Lone Star state. The result of this,
of course, is the throwing out of employ
ment of thousands of people here. The
wholesale stores, nave all dispensed with
the service of many of their employees
until business picks u. .
Now that the force of the senseless shot
gun quarantine is being felt. the theatres
more than ever, are a t~hermqmeter of the
injury that is being done the city. The
hotels have done away with extra help
and have cut off many Of their hands and
every man, woman and child is living
with rigid economy. The condition of
affairs is due entirely to the strict shot
gun quarantine that has been established
in the country when there is no possible
chance of an epidemic here. 1t is proba-
BILE that some 10, 900 people have left town,
but there are still here not fewer than
275,0 00, and ever those who were frighten-
ed a fortnight ago have come to realize
that there is no possible chance for an
epidemic. In September 1878, there were
between eighty and ninety people dying of
III v III 1OOdy liz GAL dtSI-
age since the beginning Of the fever here
is hardly one.
There were today sixteen new cases
and two deaths. These figures were
taken from the books at $50 o'clock to-
night. There have been a total of III
cases to date and q deaths. A number. of
patients were discharged.
Mobile, Ala, September 2S.-The noon
report Of the board of health today show
ed the effect of the excessive hot weather
Of the past six days upon the populace.
the past twenty-four hours was ten, all
of the patients having been taken ill from
the 23rd to the 26th. The one death an
nounced was that of Mrs. Alma Kersha,
The boards summary is GA cases, 9 deaths.
80 recovered and Is under treatment. The
ratio of deaths to cases Is II. Brother
Symphorian died at 2 o'clock this after
noon at the Industrial Garden and Boys
school on Lafayette street.
The work of combating the disease goes
on INCREASINGLY. TIL whole fever infected
district has been cleaned and diSinfected.
The yards, sinks and drains, streets and
cutters and the districts adjacent, are
now receiving like cars. The exodus, So
still. Blu four passengers left Mobile on
the Mobile and Ohio road and not more
than half a dozen ON the Louisville and
Nashville his morning;
Edwards, Miss, September 2S.-Dr.
Dunn, of the state board of health, gave
the Associated Press the following state
ment tonight: There has been one
death today from yellow fever. that of
W.. T. HOWE. Twenty-one new cases are
reported today, making the total to date
1877 and eight Deaths"
The yellow fever situation seems to
grow worse daily. Five out of the six
reported as seriously ill have had re-
peated attack Of black vomit. The fever
is fast moving down the white male
population, and at the present rate, a few
immunes. nurses and doctors will have
complete control of the town.
Houston, Texas, September 2S.-Regard-
ing the suspicious case of fever here, the
state board of health required the Hous-
ton board of health to issue the follow
but strictly guarded. I have no appre-
hension Of result. Board of health unanl
nous in declaring the case nothing more
than Inflammation of the kidneys"
Washington, September 2S.-Acting As
sistant Surgeon Porter, at Mobile. reports
that the second case of yellow fever ad-
mitted to the United States marine hoSpi-
tai last night is in no way connected with
the first case. The necessary precautions
against the spread Of the disease nave
Information has been received by DR..
Wyman that the mails are now admitted
tn Lafayette parish, Louisiana. This
parish, it is said, refused for a time to
fear of infection.
From Atlanta. Ca, Surgeon General
Wyrnan received a dispatch saying there
were no suspicious cases OF trains arriv-
ing there today, nor are there any in the
city. The train, with the outfit for the
detention camp at Mount Vernon bar
racks. leaving Atlanta tonight.
Goldsboro Argus: The venerable ex-
Governor c. H. Brogden is critically i'll,
we are sorrow to hear. at his home near
this city.