The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-20
SC0URGE IN THE SOUTH
CONDITION IN NEW ORLEANS BAD
 HUT NOr WITHOUT HOPE

Yesterday-SeriousS State of Affairs in the
 Italian Quarter-No Now Cases at Ocean
 Springs-Health Officials Not Dismayed
 Slight Increase in Cases at vicksburr.
 New Orleans, Sept 19.--The local fe-
 yer situation has undergone but little
 change since yesterday. At 6 o'clock
 tonight the record book in the board of
 health office showed a total of six new
 cases and one death. The official bull letin to be issued tonight will show two deaths, that of the woman Santa Graf feta, who died in the hospital last night. not having been included in the official
 bulletin, although reported.
 This is the record to-day:
 Deaths-Joseph Gisfasy, an Italian.
 New cases-Rosalie Bacus, John Delli, Irene Terrell, William Brandon, Nora Ii. Hines, Lena Green (colored.
 The first two cases are in the extreme upper portion of the city; one is in the Fourth district, one in the St. Claude street house where the original six cases were reported, and one in the Williams house, where two cases already existed, and the other in the Charity hospital. mere are three cases under investiga- ton, and the health authorities tonight still view the situation with some com placency. They do not yet anticipate an epidemic, as at it's meeting last night the board decided to abandon it's nightly sessions and created Dr. Olli-
 n 10 mt o,ta of tL1 the disease, with leave to solicit advice from local physicians and the munich pal authorities
 be continued.
 The report of Dr. Metz the city chem ist, on the condition of the Italian quar- ter, moved the board to prompt action
 to-day on the offer of the city of the marine hospital as refuge. Dr. Metz found as many as sixty people huddled together in the Italian quarters living in filth. In one of the rooms a goat was found sleeping nightly with the family who owned it. The woman Graffato was taken from this quarter, and the board realized that unless something was done at once the block in which the woman had lived was 1ihCiy SOOli lO O0COIlc d pldSue SpUI.
 It was therefore decided to guard and thoroughly disinfect and fumigate the entire square and to remove as soon as possible most of the families to the old marine hospital. The hundred squat ters who occupy the building will be given shelter in one of the schoolhouses in the vicinity.
 House Surgeon Bloom had a confer with PrnSiHort relative to establishing place to which indigent yellow fever patients may be removed. There are usually seven or eight hundred patients in the Charity hospital, and it is considered highly dangerous to receive yellow fever pa tients in that institution. Dr. Bloom said that the institution was ready to go to any expense to provide a supple mentary hospital. At this conference Dr. Beard submitted an offer of the free use of the old smallpox detention camp, which is entirely disconnected from the smallpox hospital and it seems likely that the officer will be accepted and all yellow fever patients who, for various reasons, cannot be treated at home, will be sent to Dr. Boards place.
 There are now two patients suffering with yellow fever in the Charity hos pital and their presence, although they occupy isolated apartments, is deemed 8 serious menace
 At a largely attended meeting of bankers. business men, ministers and representatives of labor organizations, 1t was resolved to ask the board of health to consider the advisability of adopting next Tuesday as a general cleaning day
 The detention camp at Fontainbleu was to-day declared to have been prac- tically completed and to be ready for the reception of guests.
 A special train to-day went to Biloxi | and Ocean Springs and from there car ried about forty people to the camp. l Tomorrow the camp will be thrown | open to all corners. Those who are not | immunes will have to stay in the camp | ten days, according to the federal law, | which Surgeon Murray, as the com- mander of the camp, is bound to en- force.
 There were no new cases reported at | Ocean Springs up to noon but the weather was heavy and sultry and one of the patients was not expected to live. She is Miss Laura Atkins Charles Zeigler, of prominent New Orleans family, was among those yesterday at Ocean Springs, but his condition is not yet considered serious.
 When the fever had been declared epidemic and yellow, he shut himself up in his home and did not come forth except to go to the, detention camp as soon as it was ready. Isolation, how ever, did not prevent the germs from his home.
 The work of the New Orleans sani- tary forces continued unabated to-day and the officers employed themselves in hunting up many old rookeries where people are closely crowded and where they live in filth. Many Of these places were subjected to complete disInfection | 1 and cleaning. The weather to-day has ] been warm and threatening. Jackson, Miss, Sept. 19.-Dr, H, D. 9eddings of the marine hospital service arrived here "-day on his way to Ed wards to establish camp of refuge, | , He has with him three hundred tents and mattresses. Dr. Hunter, secretary ,f the state board of health, will arrive 1ere tomorrow from Vicksburg to con- fer with Dr. Geddings with a view to | establishing a base of supplies and talk