The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20
Two Deaths at the Former Place, One
Mt the Latter and Several "Sus-
poets" Under investigation.
NO EPIDEMIC ANTICIPATED
HEALTH AUTHORITIES DOING THEIR
UTMOST TO STAY THE PEST.
Situation at Ocean Springs, Edwards
and Elsevhere-Tvvo Mild Cases in
the Hospital at Cairo.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 19.--The local
fever situation has undergone little change
since yesterday. AT 6 o'clock tonight the
record book in the Board of Health Office
showed total of six new cases and two
deaths One of the deaths was reported
last night. This is the record:
Deaths-Joseph Fisfasy an italian, 1926
Urquahart street; Santa Graffato, the
woman whose death was reported late last
night.
and Burthe streets; John Dell, Plum, be-
tween Cambronne and Jefferson streets;
Irene Terrell, Charity Hospital; William
Brandon, No 6S9 Philip street; Nora Hynes,
no. 3147 st. Claude street; Lena Green,
colored, 1858 Camp street.
The first two cases are in the extreme
upper portion of the city; one is in the
Fourth district, one is in the st. Claude
street house where the original six cases
were reported. and one is in the Williams
house, where two cases already existed
There are three cases under investigation
and the health authorities tonight still view
the situation with some complacency
They do not yet anticipate an epidemic, as
at its meeing last night the board decided
to abandon it's nightly sessions and created
DIR. Olliphant master of the campaign
against the disease with leave to solicit
advice from local physicians and the muni-
clpal duInOrlUeS. Ine afternoon and night
bulletins will be continued.
The report of DIR. Metz, the city chemist
on the condition of the Italian quarter
moved the board to prompt acceptance to-
day of the offer of the city of the Marine
Hospital as refuge. DR.. Metz found as
many as sixty people huddled together in
the Italian quarter, living in squalor and
filth. In one of the rooms a goat was found
cln
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
nkely soon TO become plauge spot 1t
was, therefore, decided to guard and
thoroughly disinfect and fumigate the en-
tire square and to remove as soon as pos
sible most of the families to the old Marine
Hospital. The hundred squatters who now
occupy the latter building will be given
quarters in one of the new schoslhouses
in the vicinity and the Marine Hospital
buildings will be permanently used as a
refuge until the fever is stamped out for
the families of the Italian quarters and
these OF the INDECENT sick throughout the
city.
House Surgeon Bloom had a conference
with President Olliphant to-day relative to
establishing place TO which INDECENT yell
low-fever patients may be removed. There
are usually seven or eight hundred patients
in the Charity Hospital, and it is consd-
cred highly dangerous to receive yellow
said that the hospital ready to go to
any expense to provide a supplementary
hospital. At this conference DIR. Beard SUBJ
mitted 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 offer will be ac-
cepted and all yellow-fever patients who for
various reasons cannot be treated at home
will be sent to- DIR. Boards place. There
fever in the Charity Hospital and their
presence, although they occupy isolated
apartments, is deemed a serious menace to
At a largely attended meeting of bank
ers, business men, ministers and representa-
tiveS of labor organizations it was resolved
to ask the Board OF Health to consider the
advisability of adopting next Tuesday as a
general cleaning day. Acting Mayor Brit
tin and President Olliphant to-day replied
TO the suggestion, strongly deprecating it.
They wrote that it would be inadVisable
and inexpedient to determine on a fixed
day for cleaning purposes, as such a move
ment would cause an accumulation of filth
and trash which could not be removed at
once and by the stirring up of miasma
would further endanger the health of the
city, instead of improving it. 1t was sug-
gested, therefore, that each individual in
habitant of the city proceed without de-
lay to the cleaning. of his own premises to
yard, etc, and the destruction of all de-
caying matter by fire.
The detention camp at Fontainbleau was
to-day declared to have been practically
completed and to be ready for the reception
of guests. A special train to-day went to
Biloxi and Ocean Springs and from there
carried about forty people to the camp. To-
morrow the camp will be thrown open to all
comers. Those who are not immunes VIII
have to stay in the camp ten days, accord
ing to the rules laid down by Surgeon Muir
ray, these rules being simply the federal
law. which the surgeon, as the commander
of the camp, is bound to enforce. There
We're 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, son of prominent New
Orleans people. was among those stricken
yesterday at Ocean Springs, but his cOndi-
ton is not yet considered serious When
the fever had been declared epidemic and
yellow he closed himself up in his home
and did not come forth, except TO so to the
detention camp as soon as it was ready.
Isolation, however did not prevent the
germs from entering his home.
The work of the New Orleans sanitary
forces continued unabated to-day and the
officers employed themselves in hunting up
many old rookeries where people are close
ly crowded in ill-ventilated homes and
where they live in filth. Many of these
places were subjected to complete dsinfec-
ton and cleaning The weather to-day has
been warm and threatening.