The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-09-27
QU|ETfST OF THE week
Fever Situation Shows Consider
able Improvement.
CASES ARE DOING WELL
No Deaths Recorded Since Fridsy-Forty
Patients Reported ~ Rapidly on the
Mend - Cases OF Dsstitution
Are Being Relieved.

New orleans. sept. s5.-To-dsy was
the quietcst of the week In New Or
leans. and the fever situation In spite
q the appearance of rather large
number of new cases may be- saii TO
have shown much Improvement. Fiji
teen eases were recorded on the books
Of the board OF health. but there Was
no deaths. and there have been no
deaths since Friday. The authorities
received reports during the evening
from nearly every patient that Is now
under treatment. and these we're all To
the effect that the cases are doing well
and that no patient is In any immedi-
ate danger of dissolution. Some 20
cases were reported tonight as being
rapidly ON the mend. and q number IL
them viii he discharged during the
week
one Of the most dangerous eases that
have appeared was discharged to-day.
II was that on Madison street, In the
neighborhood ~ the French market,
whore the conditions we're considered
Ia be such as to warrant the fear that
the disease would spread. Unusual
precautions. however. were taken by
the authorities To quarantine the cases
and improve the sanitary conditions ~
the ncighborhood and the fever In that
vicinity seems to have been stamped
out completely. Al Oakland park de-
tention camp all the refugees who have
ben given quarters Were declared To be-
We'll. no sickness having yet appeared
In the camp.
To-day's record; r.. Toma. q. q. Nc
Hardy, A. Goldman. iou Lawier.
Michael Dwyer. James Gray. Perry
and Susie Matson. - Boonson. An
Arthur Blake. Emma schlosscher. Mrs.
W. IA. Williams.
The new cases are. as usual. scatter
ed. The mast prominent among them
are NJ. &. Hardy, a wealthy Insurance
man. and Mrs. Williams. wife ~ Gen.
n. ~. Williams. a well known newspa-
per man. There are ncx four eases In
the Williams residence. hut they ARE all
reported 10 be doing well. u. Toma is
the brother of the man who died ~ yell
low fever last week. and lives In the
same premises. A number of children
are among the new eases. Professor
Metz has large number ~ formal De-
Hyde generators now nj work. To-day
he burned in the street the bedclothins
Nnd 0tnrr articles IN the hUure ~ ths
street. the clothing being subjected Il
formal DeHyds dislnfection. Some loss
Is being suffered by the poorer classes
whose effects have been burned. Pro-
fessor Metz said tonight that he was
hopeful ~ getting the city 10 make an
appropriation 10 cover just such cases
~ distress. Professor Metz has placed
these generators at the railroad depots
and baggage is being promptly and
thoroughly dlsinfecied before It In puI
ON trains. The local charity orEanixa'
tions are taking steps TO relieve al
cases of destitutton that are presented
The board ~ health supplies medicines
and the charity hospital physicians
and the charity organizations will Try
To provide food for the poorer ciasses
Mrs. A. Mccubbsge died this morning
In Ocean Springs OF yellow fever. fhs
had been sick several days and heI
case had already been reported.
There have been no new cases al
Ocean Springs. Reports from the de.
tentlon camp says that about 10 refugee,
| from New orleans have arrived thers
and II from Biloxi. There In no sickness
in the camp. save one case OF Sciatis
rheumatism. The patients In the hospi.
tai a mile from the camp. are recover
ing.