The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-09-08
GREENVILLETIMES.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. s, 1897.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.


The disease which during a great
part of the summer has been prevail
eut at Ocean Springs, aud has been
believed to be deugue, has resulted
fatally in several cases recently, among
them DR.. Bcmiss, of New Orleans,
who went 20 the village of Ocean
Springs to care for the sick.
The death of Mr.. Sid Champion, at
Edwards, Miss, also gave rise to in-
vestigalion aud comment, and care
ful study of the disease by Louisiana
and Mississippi physicians has result
ed in a formal announcement by them
that it was yellow fever or course
this decision has produced consider
able uneasiness and some excitement
iu the region liable to be affected, and
system of quarantine has been es-
tablished, effectually insulating the
infected district, aud with reasonable
certainty preventing the spread OF the
disease. 1t is supposed to have been
brought to Ocean Springs by
Cuban refugees, and its existence
there during a greater part OF the
summer in an exceedingly mild form
only one or two deaths having &C.
Cured in about 400 osses-naturally
led to the belief that the disease was
dengue, painful but comparatively
harmless affection shving some re-
ssmblsnOe in Its symptoms to yellow
fever, aud with which the people OF
Greenville are familiar from the ex'
perience of the winter of 1886, when
almost every inhabitant of this place
was attacked with it, and not one
death resulted.
The appearance of yellow fever was
formerly an annual occurrence in
New Orleans and along the Gulf, ex-
peoted as al almost Inevitable exper-
fence, aud until the year 1878 it made
no serious inroads beyond the sea-
board cities aud towns. Since the
adoption ofimproved modery sanitary
regulations even New Orleans has
been free from the disease for years
past, and the appearance of even a
sporadic case excites degree OF alarm
which was unknown when the fever
was more familiar to the people of
that city. Some excitement was pro-
dueed in Greenville when the dscis-
ion OF the Board OF Health was first
made public, but II is sHbsiding as
fast as it arose,
On the receipt Of the announcement
meeting of physicians of Greenville
was, held and it was considered that in
view of the lateness OF the season aud
the preoaution taken for insulation oil
the suspected districts, that there was no
occasion for alarm or even uneaSiDess
1t is well to be prepared for any
emergency. The card published IL
todsy's paper by the president Of the
city Board of Health explains whai
steps have been taken. The feVel
now existing at Ocean Springs is IN
dergolng thorough and scientific in
vestigstion by DR.. Guiteras, the Gu
ban expert, an authority of the highss
reliability. The State Board o
Health of Mississippi and Louisiana
are also are the ground. The infected
district has beeen completely isolated
by strict quarantine from Mobile ant
New Orleans, aud will be, or is, b!
this time, surrounded by a Gordon
which will prevent any spreading o
the disease as efeCtuslly as possible
No new cases have.appearsd in New
Orleans, and the virulence of the feVe
at Ocean Springs has not increased. !
ia late in the season, and the com
plete isolation Of the infected regiol
renders a spread of the disease yer,
improbable.