The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-13
SEVEN NEV GASES.
New Orleans Adopts Strict
Quarantine Measures.
OTHER CITIES THREATENED
Authorities at Washington Surprised
Upon the Receipt Of the News
Mobile and Gulf Towns Taking
Precautionary steps-Broad Quar-
antine Regulations Adopted.


ably declared six o6 the suspicious cases
of fever ON ST. Claude street to be yell
luw fever. A couple of hours suisse
! qlesntly the board announced another
pronounced case of yellow fever at Miro
and Esplanade Streets also in the lower
! port OF the city, but a mile or more
away from the infected square. The
announcement of the first six cases of
! yellow fever was not unexpected, al
( though it was hoped from the delay on
the part of the experts that these cases
| were simply of bilious malaria. No
| general alarm has resulted, however.
| The news rapidly spread Through the
! city. Tire authorities do not believe
| hat the situation is materially worse
than it was four Or five days ago, and
! they art still confident of their ability,
| with modern sanitary appliances, sue
| ceS5fully to quarantine the infected dis
/ tricts.
/ The official bulletin of the board of
| experts declaring the St Claude street
| cases to be yellow fever was received
| by President Olliphant soon after II
| O'Clock. DIR. Olgiphant Immediately sent
! for members of the press and gave out
| the report, which was signed by Drs-
| lie MonnieT, TouaGre, Bickharn, Petit
and PaItnam, of the board of experts,
! and Dr. DeVron, the attending ply
Stefan. The report was as follows: We,
| the undersigned physicians. who. from
| time to time, have examined the II
| cases of fever on St. Claude street be
! tween Clouet and Louesa find six to be
| yellow fever, four of whom are cen
! valescent There are no other cases
| Of the L. original cases. all of whom
| had their origin from a case that had
| come from Ocean Springs, the six other
! than those reDorted today as yellow
| fever, were announced this afternoon
| to be practically Well. up and walking
about their homes. OF the six pro-
nounced yellow fever. four are con-
| valeScent and two were declared to be
critically III, one of these having suf-
! fered a relapse since yesterday
Among the suspicious cases reported
! yesterday was that of a boy named
! Roy, living at Miro and ISsplanade
streets. Three doctors were sent to
make a. careful observation of the case.
This afternoon they pronounced it to
be unquestionably yellow fever. and as
! having apparently had its origin in
Scranton, Miss, or in the vicinity OF
Shat town. AS soon as the report was
received the board of health took
charge CT the house, quarantined the
inmates, placed guards so that no one
might come within close proximity to
the premises. and set to work thor
ouglaly to dtsinfect the neignborhOod- A
brother of the patient. who had left the
premises some time before the official
announcement, was given a permit TO
RETURN, but orders were issued that un-
der no circumstances TO lei- him CT any
member of the household to again leave
the premises.
To a correspondent of the Associated
Press President Oll-Ehaut said this
afternoon: "Of course have made this
announcement of THE existence of seven
| cases &c yellow HaYeT in New Dreams
with sincere regret, but there was no
alternative left under my pledge to keep
faith with the public here and else
where. I do not think, however. there
is occasion for serious alarm unless con-
ditionS shall grow materially worse We
shall have 10 await Developments.
AN earlier announcement of the d.
agnosis of the st. Claude street cases
was not possible. The board of e0-
perts which is composed of able, eff
cient and experienced physicians. had
made repeated visits TO these patients,
but they insisted that they should be
allowed their own time within which
to make a complete diagnosis. They
desired to be perfectly sure before pro-
nouncing the sickness to be yellow fe-
yer, They reached a conclusion as
soon as was practicable and four days
ago they warned the country that all
of the L cases We're suspicious.
Personally, 1 am unable to say
whether or not the cases are of a mild
or severe type. The absence of NOR
tally would seem to indicate that they
are in the former class That there
has been no spread would seem to
strengthen that view. | have no reason
to doubt, however, that the complete
sanitation of the neighborhood insti-
tuted by the board and the rigid quar-
antine enforced has gone a long way
towards restricting the disease to the
ST. Claude street square in which the
cases originated, and I take hope from
this fact that we shall be able to con-
fine the fever within it's present limits
The situation is certainly no worse than
it was four or five days ago, for the
disease being yellow fever then must
be now.
with respect to the Miro and Espla
made streets case We are applying the
same methods of sanitation and quar-
antine as in the st. Claude street case
and in the case of young Gelpi wherein
these methods were extended With eX-
cellent results, no new cases having
appeared in either neighborhood.
I'VE have now had a total of eight
cases and one death. the origin Of all
of which may be traced to the infected
towns on the Mississippi coast They
may all be classed as importations.
see no occasion for any panic in New
Orleans The general health of the city
is good and it is rapidly being put in
fine sanitary condition There is no
present apprehension of an epidemic,
and l have reason to hope that we shall
continue to be masters Of the situa-
ton
A number of additional suspicious
cases we're again reported to the board
of health today. In each instance ply
sicians were at once dispatched to in
yestigate. Their reports have been uni
forrnly that the suspicious were ground
less. The force of physicians attached
to the board of health has been largely
increased and the board is in commune
cation with every section Of the city.
Acting Mayor Brittin and Dr. Lam
bers met the board of health today and
discussed the question of sanitation. 1t
is reported that arrangements had been
made with the water works company
to furnish an ample supply of water.
Many of the cutters were Icing flushed
today and it was said that practically
every one ia the city would have run
ming water in it tomorrow. A heavy
rainstorm visited New Orleans this
morning and assisted in cleaning the
streets. Commissioner of Public Works
McGary said that he would add ma
teriaIly to his force tomorrow and that
in few days the city would be in
cleaner condition than it has been for
years Assurances were given that the
money required would be Forthcoming
to do all the work contemplated.
President Olliphant, soon after he got
the report of the experts today. wired
Governor Foster, who had requested to
be fully informed as to the situation.