Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-23
MICROBES STILL ISCuBATiSa'
such IL YeIIow-Fever Report
New Orleans.

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Yesterday evening and two deaths. ih'
new cases are, for the most part w." 80.
scattered and several OF them, a. 80
do not seem to have been ,he o.'O ~,
of local infection. II Is appa'.n' 800 =,
H. ,r,t@robes brought over In baggage
from Biloxi and Ocean Springs are s.n
lncubatlng, and that many nio'e
| of fever are to be looked for'
| The record for the day Is: o.
| Deaths-Dr. Joseph Lowell, aged .
wears. of III ST. Charles avenue; MIS- MIS-
| Elizabeth Nussbaum. aged II years loV'
| Gale street. .u
New Cases--Alexander Haley ,o al
Dryades street. Melville Waru, i-'
Josephine street: Wood, lASo oc,a
via street. s. c. Ecreto. lis Builne
| street: Richard Freret. 1881 Second
street: w. p. Freret. 300 Hurst street
Louis Frltch 1889 Fellciana street. Farh
Glands. 1871 Octavia street; MISS Sun
Hutcbings. 4l2 Marais street; Mrs. ward
1925 Josephine street; Mrs. Chalmers 91'
Belle. Castle street; Waldo Pitkin' 1917
Esplanade street.
Dr. Loyell's death had been eApec.eu
for four days. He contracted the us
ease while attending numpeI Va
na,Ients who were suffering with the
Ocean
himself. and when stricken, his consul
tuition had been so much shattered that
the chances were against his recovery
OAKLAND DETENTION CAMP.
Members of the Board Of Health TINS
evening paid a visit to the camp u
detention at Oakland PARK. 1hey iouiiu
everything in excellent CONDITION. nnu
the refugees comfortably situated. Thls
morning wagonettes went down 10 .ie
Italian quarter and hauled out TO the
camp a large number of people. Al nrsl'
the Italians. many Of whom were unaoie
IN sneak English were decidedly mutt
nous. and declined to enter the vehicles,
but the Italian Consul and number OF
policemen soon convinced them that IL
was 10 their interest to go TO the camp
of detention. and they finally yielded.
II is expected that by tomorrow night
there will be a couple of hundred refugees
IN the camp. Strict military discipline
is maintained, and there will be guards
stationed at all avenues OF approach ana
exit.
Mayor Flower convened the Finance
Committee to-day. and after consulta-
ton with the citys financial agents. sue
ceeded in securing the offer OF s25OJo OF
Immediately available money, TO De
placed in the hands of the Board OF
Health. TO be used in prosecuting vigor-
Gus war upon the fever. There are sun
IS patients under treatment
Only one of the patients at ocean
Springs-Mrs. Cubbage-is reported as
being in a condition at all dangerous.
DEATH AT BILOXI.
At Biloxi, Michael Levy, aged H. died
this morning of the fever.
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of Biloxi, and his wife, are among the
new cases of sickness reported to-day.
There are now 200 whites and negroes
at the Fontanebleau detention camp.
People are constantly arriving, and
special train is making frequent trips
between the infected towns and the
camps The patients in the Marine Hos
pital tents are doing well and are under
stood to be in no danger.
SITUATION AT MOBILE.
MOBILE. ALA, September 22.-There
was a slight increase in the number OF
new cases OF yellow-fever during the
twenty-four hours ending at noon to-
day, but this was offset by the an
nouncement that there were no deaths
to report; that five OF the patients were
discharged. and that jail the patients
were doing well. There have been no
deaths here since Saturday last, and
the total number OF deaths is three. The
total number of cases is thirty-four. The
new cases are four in number-nameiy
Father Daniel Murray. of st. Nincents
parish; John II. Matthews, Church
street, near Marine: John Shea, Charles
street. near Selma; Paul Violet. a child,
corner of Franklin and Augusta streets.
All these are in the infected district.
There has been no spread of the dis
ease 10 any other part of the city.
SPRINGS-EDWARDS
WASHINGTON, September CA mes
sage from DR.. Murray, i'm charge of the
yellow-fever work at Ocean Springs, IN
a telegram &c the Surgeon-General of the
Marine Hospital Service, says that he mas
just visited Biloxi, and that up to and
including the 10Th there had been forty
two cases at that place and two deaths
There were also several undecided cases
there.
He also reported one doubtful case at
Ocean Springs, and one certain case In
schooner sent from Biloxi to the Gun
He says he will arrange TOT
the protection of the fleet.
DR.. Murray also stated that the camp
at Ocean Springs has a great number Of
immunes who desire TO go to New Ut
leans, and that DR.. Wasdn, who was at
tackled by the fever a week or ten days
ago, has recovered. and VIII soon De
ready for duty again.
Dr. Geddings. wiring from Jackson,
Miss. says: I'VE to-day believe the fever
in this State is confined to Edwards and
the Gulf coast
He says there were twelve new cases
at Edwards yesterday-ten being among
the whites and two among the colored
people. There have been sixty-eight cases
in Edwards and vicinity to date.
Or. Kalloch reports from Cairo that all
the cases there are doing well. and that
the steamer Alpha, from which the pa
tents were taken, is being dsnfected.
FUMIGATION OF MAILS.
VICKsBURG, MISS. September o.
The State Board of Health wired the
following message TO superintendent
Terrell, of the railway mail service.
Atlanta, this afternoon, In reply to his
message concerning mail from infected
points:
Mail is properly fumigated at all in
fected points. except Edwards, and will
be received at all points In the State OF
(Signed) -. II. HUNTER, NJ D.,
"W. ID. KIGER."
At the request of the Louisiana State |
Board. the Mississippi Board will send |
DR. Frank Males, a yellow-fever expert, |
10 investigate suspicious cases at Cali |
fornia Tallulaha, and New Delphia He !
goes by special train.
Last night. two guards near Vicksburg. |
halted three men coming in, who at |
once fired on the guards. The latter re- /
turned the fire, when a scream from one |
Of the assailants was heard. The identity |
Of the attacking party is not known.
HEADQUARTERS of the State Board of |