Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-08
s"e increase to the natural fear OF un-
acelimatcd strangers.
DEATH AT OCEAN SPRINGS.

| NHttt Al CtEAN SPKlNGS.
one additional death has been reported
a. ocean Springs, with symptoms OF vel
,o"-ic'er' mulatto. No new cases hac
Deeh reported during the afternoon.
ocean Springs has now been absolutely
cut off from the outside world. ana ths
only means OF reaching the town are by
| wire or mail
it was said this evening there was
! oniy one ton OF ice in the town. and
mere was no way 10 get more Ice 4;
necessary where the fever cases are. In
inc course Of n day or two means will
be round whereby relief Will be supplied
AZ required, city physicians will volunteer
| 10 aid The local doctors.
IN the Associated Press dispatches last
hisht It was strongly intimated that the
ye"ow-ieVer at Ocean Springs had been
communicated from Ship Island. where
INC feierai Government maintains a
quarantine station. The island Is within
sight OF Ocean Springs To-day, DIR.
Health. said:
Inc gulf quarantine at Ship Island is
a menace TO the health OF the people of
mississippi. and the people OF the entire
South. Ship Island harbor should either
De devoted 10 quarantine or to shipping.
ana should not be used for both purposes.
chalienge Or. Wyman. supervising sur
geon-general Of the United States, or DR..
smith, assistant surgeon I'm the auaran-
tine Office. to name another harbor that
Is used for both quarantine and ship
ping without lazaretto for yell
Iow-fever patients. Mississippi is the
only State in the Union that would sub
init to the indignity.''
QUARANTINE MODIFIED.
NEW ORLEANS September This
official statement was sent to the AS
sociated Press tonight:
NEW ORLEANS, September THE
Board Of Health has withdrawn quaran-
tine restrictions against all points on the
Gulf coast, upon certificate from it's own
health officers of the non-existence of
suspicious fever excepting Ocean Springs
and Biloxi
New Orleans has but the one case
imported from Ocean Springs. The pa
tient died. and proper precautions have
been taken against any infection. Care |
ful inspection to-day in this city showed |
the existence OF no suspicious cases.
(Signed) S. II. OLIPHANT
President State Board Of Health.
w. A. Flower, Mayor, City Of New |
Orleans.
Precautions at Mobile.
MOBILE, ALA, September livery
prccauton has been taken to-day to guard
against the introduction of yellow-fever
into Mobile. Rigid quarantine has been
established by land and water, and half
Il dozen persons who got in before the
quarantine arrangements were completed
have been sent to the detention camp,
located fifteen miles west on the Louis
willie and Nashville railway. At this
camp also are detained all travellers who
came from coast points or from New
Orleans. They must remain ten days in
quarantine. No train-crews are allowed
10 come into town. There is no case of a
suspicious nature in Mobile.
spital-Surgeon Murray will be
lere tonight. and has arranged to leave
n the morning with fifty trusty men,
or ocean Springs TO form a Gordon
around the place and to confine and stamp
,ut the disease there as the Marine Hos
,ital Service did the fever at Brunswick,
ia.
Three Cases at Biloxi.
BILOXI, MISS, September AT 1890
o-night there were three well-defined
ases of yelow-fever here. They are un- {
Ter guard, and no fear is felt
GUITERAS GOING SOUTH.
ATLANTA, GA. September 7.-Dr.
iuiteras, en- route for Ocean Springs, /
iiss., TO investigate the yellow-fever
ituation there, passed through Atlanta !
o-day !
The train from New Orleans was three /
ours late in arriving here to-day At b
and several other points d
assengers were not permitted to leave {
ne train. Atlanta will not quarantine I
gainst the feVer-stricken district. l