The San Francisco call., 1897-10-18
So the People Roam at Will
From DiSeaSe-lnfliCted
Dwellings.
FIVE DEATHS AND MANY
NEW CASES.
At the Stricken Mississippi Towns
There Is Little Abatement of
the Plague.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 17-While
| the new cases did not run up rapidly here
! to-day, the deaths were somewhat nu,
merous, comparatively speaking, having
reached five as early a. O'Clock this even.
ing. One of the fatal cases, however, pre-
| sented the same old story of neglect and
| concealment.
Domenico Micelli's case appears to-day
| under both heads, new cases and deaths.
| He had been i'll some time, but no report
| of his sickness was made TO the board and
no doctor called in until it was too late to
! do anything for the man. He was an
Italian, n. ore of whom have succum bed 10
! the present fever in proportion to cases
than all The other nationalities put to-
gether. The Gould case was reported four
! days ago. James Burns case was reported
on the 9th and he died tn is morning. The
case OF Levy was of some days Standing.
! William Bockheld, who is among the
deaths to- day was the bookkeeper of the
Metropolitan Bank. He came here a few
years ago, leaves widow and six children
in Germany and was in good circum-
stances. He was taken sick on Monday
and died before noon to-day. The bodies
OF these five people were promptly buried
The agitation against the quarantine
regulations of the Board of Health is en-
couraging violations of the regulations.
There is very considerable sentiment
against continuing the quarantine system
and the result is that the Board of Health
having reduced the mum DIR OF its guards
inmates OF houses are slipping out in to
the stree is whenever they have a mind TO.
1t is no longer cons oered possible with
out the expenditure OF large sums OF
money to maintain cordons around in
fected houses strong enough 10 prevent
egress ana ingress. Whether or not The
fact that people are coming out of and CO.
ing into infected houses is having the
effect of spreading the fever is a disputed
question among the authorities, but the
belief is growing that the board Will not
seek much longer 10 maintain the quar-
antine system by which it was hoped 10
keep down the fever. Here is the list of
new cases and deaths to-day:
New cases Schneider, GuonoIon,
Guy :Maloney, Domenico MicelH. w. G.
Maiothe, P. S. Harvey, Miss Agnes
Shields, Miss NJ. A. Roddis, Frank
Schonezmann. Lorena Scanlon, - Par
! nesto, Michael Wierners, - Winter, Jules
Eibert, Francis Ebert.
Deaths Gould, James Burns,
Matthew Levy, William Bockfield, Do
nencio Micelli.
The official report of the Board of Health
is as follows: Cases of yellow fever to-
| day, "a; deaths 5; total cases to date,
828; deaths, 90; recovered, 409; under
treatment 326.
JACKSON, MISS, Oct. 1.-THE State
Board OF Health, in its official statement
| tonight, chronicle some new case of yellow
fever at Cayuga-that of Armand Ander-
son.
At Clinton there were two cases-Dr. R.
D. Miller, who re!apsed, and Mrs. r. d.
Miller.
At Edwards e. J. NobIin died this morn
ing. Three new cases were reported there
to-day. There are six persons seriously
i'll, two OF whom will proba bly, die within
the next forty-eight hours.
WASHINGTON,D D. C.. Oct. 17.-Surgeon-
Ge neral Wyman of the Marine Hospi al
service regards to-dav's yellow fever ad-
vices from The infected districts as reas-
suring. Following is summary OF the
principal developments wired tonight:
Mobile, new cases. no deaths: Bay st.
Louis, Miss, cases; Ed wards, cases. l
death; Clinton, 3 cases; Nittayuma, no
ca es, no deaths; Biloxi, cases, no
deaths.
At Galveston no cases have been re.
ported since Monday and no deaths. and
State Health Officer Swearingen has raised
the quarantine there.