The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-23

| had by no means lost control of the stu
| alton and that it was quite within the
4 range of probability to expect that in a
| short time the superior quarantine and
| sanitary methods employed will prevail
| and crush out the bronze risitant. 1t is
| not easy to find a physician whe is pre-
| pared to hazard an opinion that New Or
| leans stands in immediate fear Of an ep
| idemic During the day there were
| twenty cases reported 10 the board OF
| health for investigation, two were re,
! ported as suspicious and as requiring
| further diagnosis, fourteen were found tc
| be harmless cases Of fever and two were
pronounced genuine yellow jack.
OF these two. one is the case of an old
French butcher, Herman DartOis living
on Addison street in the immediate vi.
cimity Of the French market and whose
| case was prematurely reported last night
as yellow fever. Physicians who had
seen the case yesterday had no dunbt of
it's nature, but it was only today that an
official report was made properly class
ing the case. The second ease today is
that in the Tour infirmary, one OF the
semi-private hospitals of the city. The
latter patient was taken to the hospital
on Monday from Rampant street in this
cFS. These two cases reported today
are the only ones which the physicians
have been unable to trace to Ocean
Springs, and in the French market case
il is positiNdly known that the natient
has not been out of the city for months
All the experts who have visited them
have declared both cases to be genuine
yellow fewer. AT Tour there are some
200 sick people and the utmost caution IL
being Displayed in order to prevent any
possible spread of the disease. Likewise
in the Madison street case. unusual meth
ODDS are being resOYted to by the sanitary
officers to circumscribe the limits of The
infection because both of these foci are
naturally eonsideaeu rs more dangerous
than any reported i'm the city at the pres
cnt time.
When the report was made tonight that
only two cases had been discovered. one
of which was left over from yesterday.
and that most of the suspicious cases had
been unjustifiably reported. there was
Il marked increase. of fhe feeling of conf
dence among the health authorities.
ready been pumped th0ugh the streets
and with the general situation showing
as much Improvement as it does tonight,
confidence is steadily strengthened. The
only hardship lies. in the fact that the
city is so completely quaHntined that, it
is hardly able TO- ship pound of freight.
with the result that some, of the railroad
shops and factories have begun TO reduce
their forces until the quarantine embargo
Is raised .... /
surgeon Garter or the marine hospital
service arrived IN New orleans this morn
ihg ana ,,. uilrine tHe gay called On Pfesi-
deht OIhphant or tne board OF health.
!, reply 10 an inquiry, ne sald tnat ne
no nu , % Iader Loon iroi Ola the hssissp
fmH IT. l'au Gtn ' b;, ,Ha; NJ Will
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coon n ;n Tbnr9 n' Wormon s,; dc' ths+ tho
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II ;s rn " o ,, p NJ az rorter na,na:
bcrr 70 make n general survev vi Of tho SIT,
nation and 70 sestahj;sb if' u n, ,ms
aims of detention from which neonie
VIA want 70 cot nwav NAV w he cont pop nn
heir hmsincSs in tbe event that the fever
;houId grow worse in Now Orleans
When President Ojlinhont ,oacbnJ bis
,ff;oa tb;s morn;nS he found a lattor
warning him that noonIe We're going to
tIonio from the infected no;nts an tho
coast and that If was theIp '' n,,rnose to
,ct into New Orleans Inv return trains
ron, tbo C:,to c;tv Tho rosnlt was Tho
nstitution ~ mod;iod suorantine
'gainst Atlanta reoniring health ccrtifi-
afes from Mi nersons who might ot-
pmpt IN come info Now Orleans from ]
bn Georgia civ with nronar affdav;ts
ho+ tbev had not been in ;pfectad niaces
acentjv The synnr,ntanaents ~ fha
oilrnoai: worn not;fnd Of The or St 'n of
no board and r;ven n list Of Tho u pon,os
+ some neonlc who had conc r. Atlanta
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l,u mhs hne ame entct VI ,hSiem a;sS
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M t w. o nti,. m"n s.iiehen quay
'i.h 1i, nt p Gineis' one new case was re-
e Ror ~ iIIoH 4 .nns ~ - tnh'
liz; ~ ~, ~. nii;srN' pastor Vi lne NEIL
,ns st vd"r'1 nnnhlnS tn5ee III ,nat ially'
inc noso 'i ne t Snas'eu IN plioAd LOFTY
,u me f onS,s' VI .mese niiie;ecl were yer
Wv os;s icn S s t Mere SUSPICIOUS ana Ilas-
o oro I hoo ~ .mel,e was teS 1 Ihere
oLo cho mo uu ,', az pnG ';L. I'LL.
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;fe ,m 'nG I,a.c III ,ne ooulhern III
, ,m.i "'o"' eighty in''es lroi' 'ie leA"s
roclomoi;on Jonj,r;',n thot ,' ,'onso,
ound circulating n rImor calculated TO
sturb the public mind would he fined
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