The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-09-18
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Genuine Yellow Fever Exists at
Ocean spfa44., Miss.
IT IS CONCEDED BY DR.. CUlTERAS.
Three Cases at Biloxi, Mi.s.-lt Il.
Thought, However, Its Spread
Will BE Prevenpted-scare Dy-
1ng Out at New Orleans.

New Orleans. Sept 1o.-A bulletin
from Ocean Springs, Miss, Thursday
morning says: Zone death this morn
ing at Ocean Springs. All physicians
In town. including marine hospital ex-
perts, now holding autopsy" At 1o:3o
in the morning Surgeon R. D. Murray
wired the following to Surgeon-General
Wyman at Washington:
Third autopsy held by Wasdin, d.
agnosis of yellow fever. Consented to
by Guiteras, Carter and Cant"
The excitement in New Orleans 10
rapidly dying out. but deep interest is
being taken in the situation on the
coast. When the board of health opened
in the morning and got down to work
1t had no new cases or suspicious cases
to report ms having occurred in New Or
leans. Details for canvassing the city
have been SO systematized now that no
section is left unattended, and every
case of fever, no matter how tritling, ia
receiving the earnest attention of the
experts. Much qualification is expressed
over the appointment OF DR.. Rudolph
Matas as the head of the special COM
mission representing the physicians Of
the city to cooperate with the officials
of the board of health.
No new cases were reported at Biloxi
in the morning. The people are anx-
iously awaiting the arrival of Drs.
Guiteras, Murray and Carter. They
will be perfectly satisfied with their
diagnosis. DR.. Tackett, who went to
Perkinston to visit DR.. Sheedy, who had
been in attendance on patients in Ocean
Springs, has returned and reports that
Dr. Sheedy has yellow fever. DR.. Sheedy
himself says the symptoms are those
of yellow fever.
Up to nightfall there had been no
change in the fever situation. Two or
three suspicious cases had been report
ed to the board of health-a material
falling off from Wednesday, when there
were 81. These were Investigated, with
the usual results. DR.. Olliphant and
his corps realize that they have but one
battle-that of preventing any more inn
portations from the coast towns,
Biloxi and Ocean Springs. The news
from the Mississippi sound was salts,
factory, in that DR. Guiteras and the
otlicI government experts nAu declared
that yellow fever existed at Ocean
Springs and Biloxi, confirming the judg.
ment of DR.. Olliphant lind his associates,
and disappointing because the fears of
the public have beenrealized. OF course
the decision of DR.. Guiteras has set at
rest all doubt her e that yellow fever
exists at Ocean Springs. Late Thurs
day evening the three cases heretofore
reported as existing at Biloxi were con,
tirmed as yellow fever by Drs. Murray
and Cant. after careful investigation.
They nre thoroughly isolated, and it is
confidently predicted that spread Of
the contagion will be prevented.
DR.. Seely, who has been nursing ma.
tients at Ocean Springs, has been strick.
en- with yellow fever at his home at Per-
kinston, Miss. The case has been off,
cially confirmed, and DIR. Fl. S. Gulley,
OF Meridian, state health officer, has
gone to Perkinston to take charge of
the town and establish quarantine.