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n~isi r-cnsd ia the Board OF Health
& N . To night q 6 clock shosed .
total Of twelve css~s since 6 o'clock
yesterday evening ard tvo dsaths-
The reu eas<s Are Tor the most pars
sidely scattered ard several Of them
At ieas, do not seem 10 have b~ea the
outcome Of lcssl infection. IL 10 ap-
parsnt that tie microbes brought
over in baggage iron Biloxi asd
Ocean Springs are sti ieeubaiine-
and that many more easss OF fever
are 10 Be looked for. The system Of
quarantius aud sanitation in vogue
here il ur qusst,onably showing good
results, and whatever spread there
is the sickness in con O ued TO houses
in which yellow fcve. already az
lists or in premnes Immediately ad-
ing.
NRw .OkLxAAs. Sept p The
local fever situation did not show
auy i'm provensnt to day ~hen resal;s
we're summed ur. There we're fewer
cases than we're reported on yestsr-
day, but there Vas one moro death
in the previous twenty-four hours,
AID ut least four Of the patients we're
reported at6 O'Clock TO be in very
dangerous condition. So that, while
there 10 no reason to justify the state
msnt that there il no danger OF an
epidemic here, conditions multiply
ing to prove what most OF the
eminent doctors here have saii-thai
yellow fever exists.
MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 23.-The
Official report to-day is that 50 far
there have been thirty-eisht cases
pronounced yellow fever, three have
died, sixteen remain under treatment.
Two of the cases were reported TO
day, and ten was discharged to day.
Up 10 noon there have been no deaths
since Saturday last, and al the sich
but one or two are reported doing
we'll.
Fever Hospital Tired
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4.-Ths
main portion of the BeuregArd schoo
building which would have beer
used as q hospital was set sfire BY
mob this morning. Efficient worl
H., shn a. Aan~rt~ont in fsra M
The attack of the mob. sxved part o.
the building. Two men With . fiv'
gallon can scattered oil around th'
flames and they rapidly spread. %
the arrival of the engines the mol
cut the hose. The arrival OF . BIZ
squad of police managed to let th'
fireman work. 1t il possible soldier
will be called to protect the remain
der of the building which will b
used for yellow fever patients.
A committee during the day callst
ON Mayor Flower to protest agains
the use of the building as . hospital
His honor fiercely denounced tn
outrage of last nigh. He sii Il tha
such occurrences would d. New Or
lesns more harm than all the yellow
fever epidemics combined. Th
question had arisen whether ther
should be Law and good ordsr her
or anarchy. So far as he Was con
cerned, he proposed TO exhaust ever
power at his command to establis
peace, and he said that II it rt quire
all tie forces of the city and Stat
he was determined that Beauregar
school building should be used ~
temporary hospital.
| NEW ORLEANS. Sept. A.-Eniner
doctors believe that the work Of tn
Board of Health is productive q
good results, and that the fever is nc
spreading, but on the contrary 10 b'
ling confined to the localities. Thu
far there have been . few less tha
100 cases and fifteen deaths. Th
death rate is in the neigh bcrhood Z
l5 per cent. 1t Was in 1873, 10 p<
cent; 20 that up to the present tin
the disease 10 about as virulent As
was in the last great epidemic Ne
Orleans has had.
Biloxi Asks for Aid.
The District Commissioners yeste
} day received . letter from the Cit
Council Of Biloxi, Miss, inclosing
set of resolutions recently adopte
asking for aid for the needy sic,
The resolution state that since Il
prevalence Of yellow fever in q
city all factories and other indus'ri'
have been closed down, throwing
laboriDg people out Of employmen
The Mayor and Council ask 4
aid 10 purchasing medlcineI for Il
sick who are unable to provide q
: themselves. The resolutions stat
that those out Of empkyment 81
not i'll are properly cared for at u
|, detention camps by the city. a.
: that the appeal is made only for tho
who are i'll. The letter, envelop
> and resolutions are all perforat'
with small holes, showing the wol
of the d;sinfecting station.
MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 2.-Tne
q have been three deaths and thr
new cases since the report hand
Yesterday at 2 o'clock.