The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-20

relative to establishing a place to which
INDECENT yellow fever patients might be
removed. There are usually 700 or 800
patients in the charity hospital, and
it is considered dangerous to receive
yellow fever patients in that inStitu-
ton. DR.. Bloom said that the hospital
was ready to go to any expense to pro-
vide supplementary hospital. AT this
| conference DR.. Beard submitted an
offer of the free use of the old small
pox detention camp, which is entirely
| disconnected from the smallpox hospi-
tal and it seems likely that the offer
will be accepted. There are now two
patients suffering with yellow fever in
the charity hospital, and their pres
ence, although they occupy isolated
apartments, is deemed a serious
menace to other patients.
At largely attended meeting Of
bankers, business men, ministers and
representatives of laboring organiZa-
tions, it was resolved to ask the board
Of health to consider the advisa ability
OF adopting next Tuesday as a general
cleaning day.
Acting Mayor Brittin and President
Oliphant today replied to the sugges-
ton strongly deprecating it. They
wrote that it would be inadvisable and
inexpedient to determine upon a fixed
day for cleaning purposes, as such a
movement would cause an accumula-
ton Of filth and trash which could not
be removed at once, and by stirring up
of miasma would further endanger the
health Of the city instead of improving
1t. 1t was suggested therefore, that
each individual inhabitant of the city
proceed without delay to the cleaning
of his own premises, and to disinfec-
ton of his water closets, alleys. yards,
ETC., and the destruction Of all decaying
| matter by fire. The detention camp at
| Fcntainebleau was today declared to
| have been practically completed and to
be ready for the reception of guests
A special train today went to Biloxi
and Ocean Springs and from there
| carried about forty people to the camp.
| Tomorrow the camp will be thrown
| open to all comers. Those who ale
not immunes will have to stay in the
camp ten days, according to the rules
laid down by Surgeon Murray, these
| rules being simply the federal law,
| which the surgeon, as the commander
| of the camp, is bound to enforce.
There were no new cases reported at
Ocean Springs UP to noon. but the
weather was heavy and sultry and
Cne of the patients was not expected
| to live. She is Miss Laura Atkins.
Charles Zeigler, son of a prominent
| New Orleans family, was among those
but his condition is not yet considered
serious When the fever had been de-
| clared epidemic and yellow, he closed
| himself up in his home and did not
| come forth except to go to the deten-
tion camp as soon as it was ready.
Isolation, however, did not prevent the
| germs from entering his home.
The work of the New Orleans sani-
tary forces continued unabated today,
and the officers employed themselves
| in hunting up many old rockerieS,
where people are closely crowded in
illy-ventilated homes and where they
live in filth. Many of these places are
subjected to complete disinfection and
cleaning. The weather today has been
warm and threatening.
FOUR NEW CASES.
VICKSBURG, Miss, Sept. 19-The
fever at Edwards shows but slight in
crease and no deaths have occurred.
DR.. Purnell reported four new cases
today, as follows: Mrs. DR.. Ratliff,
Frank Angelo, John IVey, Jesse Sharpe
| (colored).
Distinction has commenced and bed
| ding is being burned when it cannot
| be disinfected. DR., Dunn, now at
Ocean Springs, has been ordered to
Edwards.
DR.. Geddings is expected there to-
night, as is also tents for camps of
refugees. The state board tried to
prevent Father Prendergast, of this
city, from going to Edwards, but he
considered it his duty and the board
gave way. The board has a report
from Biloxi, showing thirty-six cases
to date, besides six suspects and twen-
| ty-seven cases of yellow fever now on
hand No deaths reported. Col. Bobb,
an aged planter near Edwards, is one
of the cases reported yesterday. Vicks-
burg is thoroughly guarded and en-
tirely healthy.
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss, Sept. 19.-
| DR.. Kells wires DR.. Dunn, from Scran-
ton, reporting three new cases of mild
fever, no deaths and cases doing we'll.
| Dispatches from Drs. Hunter and XII
ger, executive committee of the Mis-