The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-30
DREAD BRONZE JOHN.
ONE HUNDRED CASES AND FIFTEEN
DEATHS TO DATE IN NEW
ORLEANS.
RECORD OF THE MORTALITY.
THE PERCENTAGE OF DEATHS AL
MOST AS GREAT AS DURING
THE GREAT FEVER EP1-
DEMIC OF 1873.
NO CASES REPORTED IN Texas,
| Quarantine Modified Mt Some Points
and Made More Rigid at Others.
I" santOne Has No Fever-News
From the Busy Fever Fool.
NO CASES REPORTED IN Texas,

fever situation here is more monotonously
the same. The cases are developing slow
w. and the death rate is maintaining its
usual ratio to developed diseases.
There is not, in the opinion Of the ex-
perts, any cause for fear that there will
be an epidemic owing to the lateness Of
the season, but experienced physicians
seem to feel that the disease will hang on
here for some weeks longer. New Or
leans in the meanwhile is very healthy,
but, apparently, until the fever is abso-
lutely stamped out we need not expect to
ind widespread resumption of business.
Eminent doctors believe that the work of
the board of health is productive of good
results and that the fever is not spreading,
but, on the contrary, is being confined to
no case has yet developed here that can not
be traced in its origin to the Mississippi
gull coast. Thus far there have been a
few less than 100 cases, and Is deaths.
The death rate is in the neighbOrhood of
Is per cent. 1t was in 1878 16 per cent,
so that up to the present time the disease
I, about as virulent as i was in the last
feat epidemic New Orleans had.
Zone of the sensations of the day was
the announcement that the board of health
/. had decided to prosecute Dr. Monluzin for
\ having failed to report case of suspicious
fever. In one of the morning papers
few days ago DR.. Monluzin was quoted as
SAYING that there was little if any fever
in New Orleans, and that the prevailing
sickness was Burmah or sun fever, which
he described as contagious or infectious,
and quite likely to be attended with about
the same mortality of yellow fever. This
morning DIR. Monluzin reported to the
hoard of health the case of Miss Dreyfous,
who. he said, was suffering with yellow
fever. 1t was not long after this report
was received that the board had to report
the death of Miss Dreyfous An investi-
CATION proved that Miss Dreyfous had
taken sick about six days ago, and that
DR.. Monluzin had failed even to report the
case as suspicious.
This was the record today:
Deaths-Salvador Casinar, 1923 Charles
street: Frederick Gund, 535 Maraiss
street: Miss Dreyfous, SO Bourbon.
New cases-Child in the Wood family
octavia. between st. Charles and Pitts;
Miss Mccall 1874 jackson; Miss Mamie
McNeely. 1919 st. Louis; Gertrude Kerr,
s1a Bourbon; John APPEL, S32 Howard;
Kate Murray, colored, 1923 Magazine;
Rosetta Balding colored, 545 Washington;
Ioaenb Reuther, S16 Robertson; Miss
Dreyfous, SO Bourbon.
of tbe new cases, that in the WOOD ram
;ly was developed when two cases aireauy
oY;sted The case of Miss Mccall IS on
oro of the most prominent avenues OF lhe
o,.v No nreyious case has appeared OH
Ahe street. The case in the herr fanny
III also a case where fever is already exist
ing ..u- o+ouortbv
..oousa two negro girls have been strlck-
~ Of the ninety odd cases in New or-
Leans from the beginning but four nave
heen among the negro population ihe-e
- St;,, several serious cases among .hose
'.ho arc ILL., but the board of health Is
sa;, H discbargng patients as cured.
u nI.uor Flower today ordered force Oh
.a,iosmen to guard the Beauregard school,
,rh;cb mob made an attempt 10 nu.n
W., VIM nigbt Only portion of the building
ia's turned. and it is still possible 10 U.s.
w., wa structure as hospital for the treat
me- Of yellow fever patients o,,ro.
n The situation here is generally unen lanss
:, " Freight is moving slowly, ana ,neis
ea' nr,ctically no passenger traffic. b 1nal
Is ' ones along as usual, that u.s. ioea a
ness ness, sO The theaters are still open anu
DuS,n are not restrained: But Una. tna'
a anu. Orleans is losing hundreds OF . tn0u !.
Ne% Of dollars by foolish quarantine -
= not to be doubted co,tborn Pacific
Inc UrD Of the steamer Ell N0r rte. from a11
New nO freight destined for the ta "nt
coast t, will sG embargo against this city
is raised.
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